Global Movement

the biggest community so far and it's expanding in Asia. Pretty much every country has one. It's just like I like to call it alpha but for entrepreneurs because it's very structured program … what we do differently in Singapore, we always start from praise and worship.

I run a cyber security company. I'm also a pastor, lay pastor. So, I I run a cyber security business that does services for the government, Singapore government

I was journeying with the Lord and uh yeah. So I decided that I wanted to, you know, actually find find a way to actually merge uh business and uh work. Yeah. So uh yeah, I actually found this event on Eventbrite.

I'm literally here disclaimer because my pastor asked me to come and then telling what I think about the session. So otherwise I honestly didn't know about this but I'm glad to be here.

we as faith driven we really really like pastors adopt this in churches as well. So if you feel like in your church there is a room for starting something like this and you feel like you can do it, I'm more than happy to help you and give you all the materials … that's what we I am at eventually to help the churches as well.

I'm moving to Bali slowly but steadily to build a per[ma]culture eco village. … for kingdom kingdom eco village. So one day you may want to come to have a free stay with us and we feed you and give you rest. … my core business I produce generic medicine in Singapore and also I just built a new factory in [Semarang]

First time here also. … after the faith-driven conference, right? … I'm from [Barker Road] Methodist Church, accepted Christ in city har[vest]. Um my vocations, I have three vocations. I'm a VC of US fund

I came here since day one. So I think last year June if I'm not wrong August. … at that time I didn't know it's um it's a face driven events. I thought it's just a normal business events and I was not a Christian at that time … but then well a few sessions around two two three sessions well I found the values uh in God so so I become a big believer around last year. … since then I attended church like every week and pray to God every day.

I've gone through really in my life uh the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. So in these three things I've shared uh my stories on salt and light … I've gone through depression twice. I've been suicidal and all. Um, so that's my little fun fact.

we upcycle plastic bags to make fashion accessories here. … we've come by, this is eight or eight. I know. I haven't attended maybe only four. … my wife is also my co-founder. … Correct.

I chance upon this um this particular event on Eventbrite as well. I like no way there's a faith-based event in [Block] 71 because I've never seen it before, right? So, I just signed up for it. I thought it was a scam at first.

yesterday I brought uh I think we brought 30 people from [Praxis] to here as well. … Praxis is a very very famous American Christian accelerator and philanthropy center … Block 71 is very very welcome and that's probably the most open-minded accelerator but it's a government one university but it's probably the most openminded one.

I was very impressed with the sharing. I was also very impressed by the content that is being shown to us about like how actually uh you can make uh faith uh I mean God God can help you to make a business decision as well is and not only in our personal life. So I gain a lot of uh I really love the fellowship that comes after.

I'm actually building a a cancer app specifically similar to how providing hope through like a salt and light kind of model of sharing people's testimonies.

I had a growth marketing agency previously and I'm currently planning to restart it soon. … Yeah, I'm planning to restart it now. My energy is back.

Fun fact about the previous session. There were 13 girls. … it was very unique session. I have to say out of the seven that we had. … it's the first time where I'm getting to mingle with uh you know entrepreneurs who are also uh in love with Jesus at the same time

I was here because I really enjoyed the last session with [[F014]] and everyone else. and I hope to enjoy this session as much

I'm also volunteering now for [COMPANY] where … [COMPANY] is a VC fund and a Christian accelerator in Singapore … we're working on investments … for faith-driven entrepreneurs and um also helping out with we're probably running a mission trip. … I'm launching financial literacy programs with the government um as of next month.

I moved to Singapore for love and I found myself here and now I'm you know trying to grow my network in a country that I'm not so familiar with. But but yeah, I know I know [FACILITATOR] from the [COMPANY] as well

recently I'm also a [Praxis] ambassador for them. that I'm trying to make more groups churches in … my wife is Taiwanese. I have three mixed kids here in Singapore. Live here [for] 12 years and I play accordion

Father, we gathering here for the eighth time. … Jesus, you'll help us apply to our business and we will be building Jesus not just for the people but for you God. For you God, you are our CEO.

as a computer scientist I automated it yes I mean some of the messages are automated some are not … Usually the group is just five people that don't know each other very well. In Singapore, I believe the first in the world when we get 20 30 people coming and over this eight months, we got over 100 people coming. … war in Ukraine I'm Russian originally right so I had a lot of problems with this right because we lost a lot of business in Ukraine … and we don't have funding anymore and that is actually the time when I seek God I pray I went to DMV accelerator … would I do that if uh I have a lot of funding I don't know maybe not

after I started my uh marketing business I had a major burnout. … I started a blockchain startup with two other partners in the industry. And um actually that was where my faith started strengthening. … I see a lot of people who are really like wretched … but basically there are some people that I get along better with that I realized eventually that they were all Christians and that actually anchor my decision to um become more faithful and um take on my journey to become Christian. … I could see how the uh ways of working just by existing and just running their business could help uh evangelize a new Christian into the community.

every entrepreneur is five 10 20 hundred hundreds of people that look at us every day. how we make decisions … I really looking for opportunities to explain my employees when some miracle happens … or we did something very anti- business by let's say not following the contract but still uh passing money back when we see that you know they needed for something else … And then you see people trust you and they come with fivefold after a few more months

it it's really being about um a person of integrity … knowing that you're a leader of one at the very least. You're the leader of yourself … people can see that you're called to be set apart. You're called to lead and influence. You're called to be a city on a hill … we want to be intentional that with every conversation with every interaction we have we leave the other person with more faith with more hope with more love with more joy.

I'm originally from China. … I'm actually hiring some interns from China right now that I pay pay them like 3,000 [RMB] per months and … he was like well you know what's happening in China in fact you don't need to pay them actually you can call a program like a mentorship program … you can even ask them to pay you … The way that my friend is doing if in a logical sense is really makes sense because it it lower downs the the cost a lot. But … how are we going to honor God? … treat everyone like your family … That's my that's the things that I learned throughout the past few months.

I've uh hosted FD online three times. … the first one is about evangelism. I think the Lord puts people in my heart to pray for uh and to reach out. And I'm happy to say my evangelism is 100% like everyone I ask to come to church, they come to church because I don't do [cold] calling … I always pray is this the right time? Is this the right person? … the second point is redemption. So um I'm a lawyer. … they just remember one bad thing … and then Lord say you're going to redeem the person … I acknowledge his objective success. I speak to him like a person give him grace and kindness … that's how I I bring the gospel

I'm quite uh holy spirit driven … the client is Chinese. So their English not very good. … I just sent it out maybe like 8 a.m. the next morning and then I received a call from the client and then the client say how do you know I needed it … they use my my deck instead of the the guy who's supposed to prepare … I don't charge fees. I don't charge extra. … I just say I pray to God … I used my strength to solve it. I couldn't … the lord said go pray. I pray I come up with a solution using property law … God is actually very real in my life. So I try to bring the realness uh to the workplace … my church also teaches bring the atmosphere and worship … my coworker bro what are you listening to … I just show him is [a worship] song

we worked with lowincome uh Filipino students … They were people who dropped out of school not because they wanted to become the next Mark Zuckerberg, but they they couldn't finish school primarily because they they had financial struggles. … the Philippines being a very uh Catholic or Christian country, it was really a very important … mission to me to be able to apply what I know from church. … I I should have been a lot more vocal about like by my faith … we would go down as far as their emails one by one … it might have seemed like it was not the most profitable thing to do, it felt like the right thing to do. … we essentially ran out of money. … If I'll be honest with you, I don't have any more money, so I can't afford a trip to Singapore. And he said, No, don't worry about it. I'll sponsor the whole thing. … I saw people actually being proud to speak about their their religion, proud to speak about God … I really made it a point that regardless of who I'm speaking to, I really tried to bring up my my faith

somebody responded me hey do you want to go to Korea for the conference for free pay for the ticket pay for the hotel … I really didn't want to go … but I have a very … strong uh voice you know no you should go you should go to Korea … I was pretty is the first person in Changi who applied and didn't receive. So I miss my flight. … at 3:00 a.m. my wife typing to me in WhatsApp … I had like complete trouble after trouble for two consequent days … guess how many Koreans there were in a conference in Korea? about zero to five to 10 … but there were over 50 Christian Singaporeans in Korea … my learning from there is that if you got a lot of troubles and something out of the blue you you pray and you don't reject those things and if you are pushing for it and you're getting more and more and more troubles means you're doing the right thing … you are not doing everything right if you don't make [God] your CEO of your business

I actually have felt like uh God is calling me to contribute to uh NGO in uh India. … my friend his brother invented a system whereby uh poor people in the slum can collect trash … some company … wanted to buy his program and then he refused because he said it they will they will misuse the program and then Guess what? Like I think maybe a month later he was murdered. … it's the first time I raised a four figure sum in Singapore to uh help the children … the women are using 30 socks as uh [sanitary] napkins and that can actually cause death … I even went to LinkedIn to find all the like [Kotex] um whisper marketing managers to try to get them to sponsor us but nobody did … somebody on the bike came uh [alighted] from the bike and molested a 8-year-old girl in front of him … But then when I saw the fresh tomato thing, I really hope that … if any of y'all can think of any business way on how I can contribute back to these two organizations

I'm a doctor and I work in the emergency department and uh five years ago I mean I've been a faith and work conferences and all of this and mostly it's like they give you a mug that says God God at work. And you know, I felt like there was no synchrony between my head and my heart … I attended a workshop from [Praxis] … each of us we don't have to quit and become pastors … god isn't asking us to go and in in enter seminary. He's actually calling us to be where we are … I recruited my first employee uh who's Indian and he's a product designer and I he isn't in any way Christian he's agnostic actually … he quit his previous job which was paying him a lot … and decided to join the startup only because of what I shared … you don't have to hide your faith uh put it in a curtain

she used to be working in my client's business and then how did I how did I tell you that we were running this? I think we had a couple of conversations about marketing and then and then about Christianity and then eventually you come … So that's you start getting others to start an FDE or you know go back to church again or start decisions start making decisions differently in their business

I'm writing on Forbes quite a bit. So I wrote about redemptive marketing on Forbes … How do you market the value and through the value you are becoming a good business rather than through the marketing tricks like fear of missing out like last moment discount … confusing people misleading people … That's uh how we try to do redemptive marketing.

I generally am quite big on personal branding … a lot of them actually use um their own voice … while using their Instagram page with uh their verses. It's a very simple and cheesy way to be like, you know, putting their gospel out there … this guy called [PERSON]. He basically was like a drug addict … do everybody likes his content not really but he is still a example of his faith because of how much he has changed … Not in perfection but in faith.

I always just say I I pray to God I speak in [tongues] to to be honest but I I don't say that because I don't want to create division so I would just say I I pray to God but the truth is I I usually speak in [tongues] to get wisdom or insight … I equip my spiritual sons like people I brought to the faith … because of the latter day glory principle. Jesus expected his disciples to do greater things … I pray for clients. I I bring all the [oil] to them … there's some dark things haunting me … His name is Leang from Covenant Chamber … He actually told the client that I listen there's black magic in your divorce case … and then the marriage was restored. So after I read that I felt validated and normalized

what I learned is to uh really uh love my customers despite of … the knowledge level and you know the level of respect to us because we're in the marketing industry … you got to love your customers and you you're going to make your decisions out of that love regardless what's going on

I don't really know how to answer the question about um God and business because for me, it's how I do life. So, it's not really separated business, not business. … I've been to Turkey after the earthquake as well for for mission work … in the dental career is a lot of competitiveness and that's not biblical at all because we live in abundance … the staff there love gossiping … so for me I'm not involved in all this … I'm not the healer, okay? I'm just assisting … I pray for them. I really do. I I go home and I pray for them. … It should should it should be the norm. … the reason why he gave it to me and not another dentist is because he wanted me to pray … before our tenants move in that we'll pray over the property … God has our name written on the right projects … my parents are not Christian … I explain to them that hey, you know, I feel yeah God God told me this

if God asks you to do something like do an NGO or do a business startup or whatever stuff or even you know start a family and you don't have the money or you fear of losing the money or then you should stay in the eco village and do a business from an eco village because it's almost no cost … in the event that you fail you can always fall back to your own farm … this will be the training ground for evangelists or missionaries to learn how to harvest water, how to harvest energy so they can go to the most remote place on the earth

what I loved from the story of the Nature Sweet Tomatoes … he said, I'm pursuing a vision that I will not see in my generation. Uh, and that really puts the focus on and the spotlight not on you … how can I align my skills to to pursue a vision that's so so much larger than myself and my life and my net worth … and how can I pass this on? … I don't think it's the blame or the removing of pressure. I love the pressure. I love creativity and success and all of those things. But it's also not about me … it's not about how much I've made through this process. It's really about how much how much I've given.

I wanted to um share the word of God in Romans chapter 10. … how then can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? … it's not just about living uh that life of integrity, but really being intentional, stepping out, sharing the faith with people

asking how are you uh to people and and actually really caring about what people answer … I was actually answering this question for the first two years of living in Singapore. Then I realized nobody care whether I have eaten or not. … before the meeting, I'm I'm so charged. I want to tell them, I'm going to terminate you right on the spot. But after hearing from them and then God reminds me of how broken I was … instead of terminating them and say okay let's you know let's try again … when I asked one of my financial consultants how are you … that opened the gospel door for me … and then I led her to salvation there and then … praying for your clients or your customers … that should be the norm … Nobody would say no to a blessing even if you're of a different religion

I'm the third generation in this industry … he spoke through Exodus … I saw how God turned the adverse circumstance that I was facing into blessings. So I because of that move, I I had a a package offered to me and I made a lot of money. … But because of that, because of making a lot of money, then my eyes shifted. … When they left, what did they do with that wealth that God blessed them with? They used the gold to build the golden calf. Ironic, isn't it? Right. That was what happened to me because with all the blessings in five months I made so much money … But that became my idol. And so I lost all that money every single I lost seven mid7 you know. … that's why I say I went into depression or suicidal … I started sharing my journey with clients about stewardship. Even non-Christians can understand the wisdom of stewardship

It's still very fledgling Christian uh for myself. Um really just learn more um listen to more testimonies. I mean what what brought me this exactly what this community is for actually listening to other people. What brought me back to faith was was a testimony about DMV … I was in venture capital before. Um and the idea of faith investing was very interesting … I connected to the [M005] from DMV and and here I am today … I'm just you know grateful to be able to to get back my life on track.

you look different actually just compared a few sessions back and not just you I mean I look at everyone transformed … I don't say it's because of the sessions right but it's you are tuning yourself back to God you know synchronize the frequencies then you look different you behave different you are Happy. … You know when you come here first time you were like crying

I've been spending a lot of time uh applying for jobs and doing my my coding class. So, I will cough out maybe a few hours to help the two organizations that I said just now.

I'm in the education space … in um education you have to be quite um careful about things to say because a lot of the students are from different faith and they are young children. … I travel around Southeast Asia a lot particular to this country Laos and I think that's a place where God called me … a teaching trip but behind it's kind of like a mission trip for me. So I I pay out of my own pockets … just as I was just praying to God say, hey, please uh help me … the organizer … calls back and say … How about we connect you with a company instead? … now they are sponsoring our our entire event … how come you're so different? … I was born in Christ I was raised up in church

having more of that presence with God, no agenda, and letting him do his work in you … some of the girls who were here last time they they know this um and we got pretty emotional … I was impacted in Tik Tok a few months ago and um that's how I and God called me to move into the finance industry … I'm really seeing God's provision … you may feel that you're not qualified but God qualifies the call … I know you mentioned uh education industry is a bit different … not asking God, hey God, are you here with me? But the real question here is, are you on God's side?

I think I'll have to pray about what I could do next. But I think definitely I could start uh what I've learned from today is uh should be intentional about praying for our clients as well.

I would um weave it in more strongly in terms of like my presence on social media um and be have more faith in the words that God asked me to speak instead of like holding back like oh you know like these words are not something that I would say you know like I'm going to get judgment from this

today the devotion talks about how we should give people the identity in Christ. … the guy who wrote on the paper gave the beggar a new identity. … So you always want to give people their their identity in Christ … I have a BD guy. So I wrote uh you are a deal maker and a [finder of] value people [connector] and then he just replied yeah correct. … I always pray for faith to to to take all these bold steps. … my first faith step was asking the Lord what spectacles I should buy.

our customers and our clients and our patient … they're not random. I I think God brought it to you because, okay, I'm a dentist and I'm the second or the third dentist in the clinic. So, in order for the patient to come to me, the first one must be fully booked and then the second one must be fully booked … sometimes a shopping mall, one escalator would be blocked. And I often tell myself it's because that's God's provision for the other shops on the other side. And they've been praying to God like, please give me more customers. … every single one is brought by God.

Singapore we decided that we do it always on. … we're just going to pick up different videos for the same topics and we're just going to continue … our group is permanent … the most valuable part here is that you hear that you're not alone … it's not the pastor talking or some very famous you know speaker talking but it's actually us talking to each other and I think that that that is something that you wouldn't hear anywhere else at the moment in Singapore … if you got your church got an entrepreneur society you feel like you get pastor or somebody in a church willing to run it send them my way … our job is just to facilitate amplify.

Father God, we pray for for this bit smaller session, but it's very dedicated people who come here for you for for us to learn how to how to do the business right for this closing session that you will empower all of us to reach out to others. Just just what our session is talking today about spreading the word to the world and getting more business people to be involved to be touched touched by your word touched by by the holy spirit

My name is [U019]. Uh and I'm the founder of Good Shepherd Collective as the name suggests. So God is very much the CEO of my company. Uh so the name Good Sheperd Collective, I think a lot of believers when they meet me, they would kind of it rings a bell and for non-believers it would be perhaps a testimony someday. Uh what brought me here? Yeah. That's why I got to know um FD through DMV. So this is my I think third or fourth time here and uh hope to continue joining the next cohort.

I met John uh at another Christian networking BEC and then we found out that we actually junior college schoolmates. Oh, yeah. So, small world. BC. Yeah. It's a Okay. Tell us tell us about EC is a business empowerment circle. Yeah. It's a marketplace ministry uh community. So it's kind of like Bible study on uh for Christians uh for Christian business owners. So we tackle uh really tough marketplace questions like for example if you are setting price how much is too much in the eyes of God. Yeah. If you are a price setter right so uh and if someone align the same as what we discussed here as well. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So I I'm quite active in your place. Can I make a joint one one day? Sure. Sure. Yeah. He also addressed things like you know if someone offers you a bribe right how you handle it in a business setting.

I'm [M051] John [U019] [[M051]] uh I'm a managing partner of a strategy consulting firm. So similar to B McKenzie and BCG uh but we are the first movers in Singapore to be targetingmemes. So it was a calling from God. I found a way to integrate uh marketplace ministry together my work. So get stands for GT stands for grow, exit and transform. So grow is for the business. Exit is to be exit ready. So it's a state of which your business uh is ready for a sale. If not then it's quite easy to create succession, right? Usually measured time spent uh as well as scalable valuation and transform is actually not the business, it's actually the personal lives of the business owner. So this is where the marketplace uh ministry comes in. Usually when I have discussions and I really get down and dirty with equity, um I have opportunities and bridges to um bring Christ into the picture. Yeah. Because equity is very personal. … There's a lot of things happening in the world. Uh we are truly fighting the fight of faith out there. Keep saying that we actually very blessed to impact way more people than average people because we all the business owners. So yeah, and equity side uh people who are rich uh uh they're buying uh you know businesses to to spread their values and they're going after our next generation. … my business's uh vision statement is to nurture good stewards of equity for posterity so for future generations and the mission statement is to do this by enabling them to be exit ready.

So if the last week you didn't bring Christ in the picture with your non-Christian employees, non-Christian partners, then you can do it in this coming week. Yeah. You don't you don't always have to uh you know be the one directly doing it. But planting the seed helps. In fact, just attribute the things are happening. That's what you believe in as well, isn't it? Right. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of things happening in the world. Uh we are truly fighting the fight of faith out there. Keep saying that we actually very blessed to impact way more people than average people because we all the business owners.

I'm [FACILITATOR]. uh this is or what I do I I operate as a fractional COO um and growth primarily for startups or smallmemes right I'm helping guide them really from zero to one and and the pitfalls of that it's it's very exciting um sometimes not very rewarding but um it's it's it's also well not rewarding in a financial sense but in a growth sense of working with the startups of releasing them grow um that is rewarding here so what brought me here is I can't say [FACILITATOR] uh But it was it was it was a year ago, right? It was a year ago. Um I think I was in a season of of change. You know, Christ led me to um the FD group and ever since then, I think I've gone through I think two two iterations of it. And I I just want to spread more I want to spread the word a little bit more. I want more entrepreneurs to come by over here. Uh I think Singapore is such a small country, but we don't know all the all all the people of the kingdom, you know, all the different businesses there. I think we should really connect a little bit more that way.

so my name is [M055]. Uh hi [M055]. And I've come here especially from Scotland um to be with you tonight. I dropped him a WhatsApp message say come to Singapore. Okay. Took a flight. Yeah. Not exactly. No. I uh I'm part of FTE back in Scotland. Um so we have a we have a small group. Uh um what brought me here? So uh the Scottish government funded me to come over here. Um 10 10 companies in the health tech sector. So my business is using VR in the world of dementia uh dementia design and dementia awareness. … So I send greetings from FTE in Scotland. So about this VR scene, uh can I like wear the the glasses and pretend myself having damage? It works with Yeah. No, I I didn't want to go into too much detail, but you're right, [FACILITATOR], you can't do that. Um our platform is not for the person living with dementia, but everyone around about that person. So you see life through the lens of someone. So it's exactly what I said, isn't it? You're wearing it and you kind of can put yourself in the shoes. So you put that you put yourself that's amazing. Yes. Yes. So it's about color. It's about patterns on the floor. It's about design. We secured investment from a French flooring manufacturer about four years ago. I need investment um from this trip because uh our our our VR space is um the model in the Unreal Engine. So it's an architectural kind of feel high quality photorealistic experiential learning platform. We use VR as an empathy platform. Are you on Unreal? I am an Unreal fan. Yeah. No. Are you on Unreal Engine 5? Oh, yes. Five. Yeah. Yeah. You need a lot of computing space. Four or five. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's big platforms, but but our current platforms are ported on the cloud. So, we use AWS. So, education. So, universities buy it as an education platform. Their gerontology team, uh, architects, caregivers. I was at a caregiver platform today. So they all could be a great sales tool as well if you're sending something to families. Absolutely, [FACILITATOR]. That's that's the route is it's currently B2B, but the opportunity to go B to C is is uh is is great. So greetings from Scotland. Good to be here. Keep up the good work, guys. It's fantastic. I eventually found you. I think I started off about 4:00, but eventually found the building here. So it's it's quite a quite a place. Sant is quite famous for this. Yes. Yeah. I'm here 13 years and every time I need to get a meeting in s I allocate another 20 minutes just to find a place because it's just it's just beyond even if you are very advanced VR engineers you cannot do that anyway so my name is [FACILITATOR] uh facilitating the the ongoing group here in Singapore we ongoing MD group we started this 16 sessions before right so we are running six number 16 um for the business I standing on this side because I'm also in the marketing department yeah okay I'll stand in the center so uh we build a platform for agencies to pitch better to build strategy and to come up with creative ideas from digital content analysis so it's bit more mature agencies and uh creative agencies and bigger brands that's working to make guys need to come up with a new ideas. So our platform called business uh we do think that AI shouldn't replace people and it's actually not capable of maybe it can replace some very simple kind of jobs. So we think AI and general technology and data should equip in our particular case marketers to be a better marketers. So eventually they spend less time of doing something really basic and manual and spend that time with God with their families and also feel very satisfied and they don't need to lie. Why talking about lies? Well because marketing is very much about lying but go in the wrong direction unfortunately very often goes in the wrong direction which makes this industry pretty broken and this is exciting to to fix it. So this my business uh we will have a chance to catch up later and uh what we're going to do now we're going to watch the video and we have a couple of questions to discuss after we finish it. So today's is the eighth session and it's called global movement and it's really global. Yeah, we got Scotland and uh you know Singapore represented. Um, I come from Russia 13 years ago, so I also can't tell that. Okay, so this is the video.

my name is [M009]. I spent a decade in storytelling, whether be it telling stories for brands or organizations to advance organizations interest. So what I'm doing now is to I'm actually building intellectual property for entertainment and I say that it sounds very abstract but in a simple way of saying it's kind of like if you know the Marvel universe you know the Harry Potters in the Star Wars they event they are essentially intellectual property and they get they get brought to the market via different platforms like film, novel, games. So this is what we're doing and one of the titles uh all our titles are original um just focused on why right now and um trying to bring that to the market.

So for [FACILITATOR] one fun fact is also you can name drop with him. You go any Christian business fellowship you say do you know [FACILITATOR]? Everybody say yes for sure cuz he literally volunteering in all of them. He's just just really what he says is just one dance. So what he actually does he I seen joining out two of these volunteer that he really helped me here a lot. The banners are outside. It's um facilitated by him. He's the one also bringing food upstairs. He is the one doing the Christian web community uh food and everything else. And he's also the one Yeah. Yeah, it's just like yeah, it's like it's it's it's probably one of the most active Christian entrepreneurs here. And what's very exciting to me is that that was not the case a year ago. He was coming here. You can see the recording. He was like standing almost almost crying and said I don't know what to do. Everything is broken. Nothing works. And I can see him so different. So transform people so much and uh he's one of the admins for us as well.

My name is [F001]. So uh I'm a marketing professional turn like entrepreneur. Join this side. Yes. And uh so the company I'm in is uh we I help uh people and also I'm also into mindset coaching. Yeah. So I help basically people and brands uh transform through uh 360 marketing strategies uh and also technology solutions as well as transformation coaching. So um I just thought of the fun fact would be uh my family uh family origin. My father is actually an entrepreneur and a business owner when I was uh yeah so I think uh I should inherit a lot of that business acutement and spirit of uh entrepreneurship. So if you like to know I think um where I am originally from then you can catch me later during fellowship.

So another fun fact about her, she's um very decisive. Uh about a month ago, um I took the FD book and I say, "Take the book, go pass to a minister." She took the book, move everyone around, which was director of Facebook Singapore and say, "This is our book. We are faith-driven entrepreneurs. Do you want to take a look and read this?" I was honestly quite scared to do that. That's [M011]. Did it So we we all have superpowers. So if you need to push something through, you just get to she will make it done, you know. And uh that's that's that's a really super power of her. Okay. That's that's from God, I think.

Um [M002], I've been coming to FD since I forget already like but this is the last session. I I was here like session one. So probably eight months ago. There's no such thing as last. There's eight. So like so this is my eighth session. I missed one.

I'm Ted STO. Yeah, I'm uh this uh government grant agent as well as a real estate properties agent. Yeah, I actually run a business in the past uh with my sibling which is in pest control business. So uh yeah I also come from a entrepreneur strip uh family background whereby uh my dad is also one of the businessman. Yeah. So uh I treasure integrity and uh very compassionate and as well as empathy in my relationship as well as my inerson relationship with others.

we do think that AI shouldn't replace people and it's actually not capable of maybe it can replace some very simple kind of jobs. So we think AI and general technology and data should equip in our particular case marketers to be a better marketers. So eventually they spend less time of doing something really basic and manual and spend that time with God with their families and also feel very satisfied and they don't need to lie. Why talking about lies? Well because marketing is very much about lying but go in the wrong direction unfortunately very often goes in the wrong direction which makes this industry pretty broken and this is exciting to to fix it.

Once to highlight here is FD right that we are still we still can grow can grow significantly. So there was this calculation that there is 20 to 40 engaged Christian business owners out there on the world. So we think we can grow to over 200 official number. I mean I'm I'm on the on the on the board of ambassadors here in Asia, right? So this is what we think we could grow to but we have to be very coordinated. We have to work on structure. We have to come together in a couple of days. you have seen in the group there will be Asia-Pacific gathering of FD which we all encourage very much to attend and uh I think if each of us will even just you know spend five minutes thinking of can I spin off a group by my own we will definitely support you we show all these videos we transcribe it we have all the slides and we can support you for praise and worship if you need kids running around your event I can you know provide that as well. You can just exactly replicate um this atmosphere here. Yeah. So and through that we already spin off one in Taiwan. We spin off one more here in Singapore and two more span by itself and it's really great because it's it's it's a growing community. Another thing, if you feel that your church could accept the framework, it would be really great to have one in Singapore because FD is looking for their core church. They'll put that church in a website and it's everyone who interested in FD, they could go to that church. So the entry barrier will be lower because people that trust church, we really need to reach out to the entrepreneurs. Each of you here on this session, we're not here just to attend. you here to grow it to let others know. Yeah. So, next week at least two more entrepreneurs you need to talk about this. Yeah. And at least two of you need to spin off your own foundational study group and then can work it better especially those varants especially those who come so many times.

I tell one story uh about myself that's just to kick off uh I was uh uh super scared to go uh to go back to Russia after after the the war started there. Not because generally scared but I was scared I cannot exit back because they were locking the borders and uh at the same time I had um I had a uh some business I had to finish in there because there was a lot of funds that were allocated for the employee salaries there that I would just lose immediately if I wouldn't actually cross the border, put the signature, show my face and say I'm here, right? I would have lost it and then all my friends parents tell me hey no no no no don't go don't go that's mobilization everybody go out not in you confuse the direction you know uh though I went and this is very interesting I went to uh holy trinity brompton church the one that is their alma m of their alpha and I talked to uh I talked to Karan Vikar uh uh which is not nit gamble anymore it's a this uh arch And uh I told him, "Hey, uh I'm Russian. I'm scared to go Russia. Should I go Russia? Tell me. … He was shocked a little bit. But then he pray and he say, "You know what, [FACILITATOR]? Actually, I have a very strong feeling that you already know what you should do and you don't waste my time." Yeah. God is already very clear what you should do. And that clear suggestion was of course you should go and you shouldn't be afraid. But I was super afraid. Uh well that's my home country but in that particular situation that was very weird scared place and nobody want to go and you know I decided to go for for the employees and you know just just to make that settle cuz I said that God tells me to do so. And once you make a decision to do what God asked you to do, he will support you. And because I'm uh I got a PhD, so I'm pretty bad in, you know, getting the hints. You know, if you want to tell me something, you say, "[FACILITATOR], this is what I tell you." Not like, "You know what?" Yeah. I wouldn't I wouldn't get it. Yeah. So, uh that's why she's not attending FD, I guess. But yeah. So anyway, no well well um uh we we we learn over over 12 years of how to how to extend the but anyway so uh so God is also he knows I've got a PhD as well. So he's like quite straightforward to me. So I was taking a plane and um uh I had some book in my in my um in my luggage uh that I bought in uh in England in a church. And the reason I bought it is because I was very surprised um how come a Protestant book is sold in a Greek Orthodox church. For me, it was just like how come that has never happened in my life that Orthodox sell Protestant books, right? It's just like just just just just uh very weird. So, I just bought it. I was very curious what is inside book. And then uh and the name of the book was uh um uh Scrate [Screwtape] Letters. Have Have you Yeah. Yes. Yes. So, so now I'm sitting in a plane. Yeah. I'm sitting in a plane and I and I feel I cannot think about anything. I just feel so bad and and actually I don't still want to fly there and I already flying so kind of I mean unless you jump out and then I open the book and um and I open it in a chapter I mean uh the book is about senior devil teaching junior devil how to tempt humans and in that particular chapter number four or five there was about hey imagination is a raw material it can be used in good, it can also be used in a very bad manner and uh it's your job as a evil junior devil to use it in a bad manner. So this object, this person that you are uh you are now attempting, he is super afraid to go for uh for the World War II. The book is about somebody who was experienced who was living during the World War II in England. So that guy, he's thinking, hey, maybe there's a bomb will fall on him. Maybe his family will be kidnapped. Maybe uh you know the battlefield, he will die on the battlefield because of a grenade and somebody will shoot on him or he will be kidnapped and tortured. So you as a junior devil, your main job is not let this guy start thinking and realizing that at least all these five bad things couldn't happen to him at the same time. He most likely if he die, he'll die at least for one. It's unlikely that he will be both bombed and kidnapped and tortured and his family also and the you know because the moment he will realize that this imagination is nothing to do about even just simple logic you will have no weapon against him and this is a great story but for me I was absolutely shocked because I was in a plane flying to Russia Exactly in the same situation that has been described about World War II by CS Lewis about someone who was supposedly living like 60 80 years back. And this is that straightforward way the way the God have comforted me because it took me talk to you know Vicar of HTV and all those things to make a decision. I made a decision. Here you go. I got literally book explaining me what actually I feel and then that I shouldn't feel I shouldn't really rely on God and everything I do and then I close the book lay down sleep go rush do all the things I mean it was very funny on the border because I was literally the only man entering but you know this is the way I get encouraged pretty much all my life Because I'm mean being a technical person and you know mathematician to a sense is it's just impossible for me to imagine that this thing happened by chance. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. By how can this happen by chance? It doesn't happen by chance. Right. So it it makes my face very strong and that in a sense brought me in a very weird location.

okay so strategy consulting uh is a white shoes industry uh quite transactional in nature as well. So we are serving MNC's uh and they're only thinking about sales and bottom lines uh typically because uh you know uh they don't own enough equity and it's usually tied to their KPIs. So it can be a little bit more transactional. So uh I remember having uh you know when I was in the MNC side of it uh you know I spoke to my pastor I was saying you know I quite burn out doing 80our weeks which is the life of a strategy consultant uh and then uh you know my pastor asked me how many Christians are so I wanted to do social service by or to go into nonprofit. So my my pastor then asked me how many Christians are there in social service and how many Christians are there in strategy consulting. So um it was kind of like if not you then who kind of uh uh kind of revelation. So uh that then that brought me to private practice. So typically strategy consulting they they've always uh not serve assme they they only serve most of the time billion dollar companies or at least triple digit billion companies uh and yeah and it's it's quite transactional in nature yes so and and how God opened the door and this I really wasn't expecting uh first of all it's a brand new profile there we were talking family businesses right and that's how the whole marketplace started I at first I thought you know I was my hubrist taught uh my hubris made me think that oh we just need to help companies grow uh but God knows better right he's able to I mean equity is from God everything that we have on earth we're just stewards of it right so we're talking about uh just God blew my mind and changed the way I understood business uh by looking at it from a from a family perspective right when we own equity at the end of the day it's what it's it's it's a talent that God has given you and it's meant to be stewarded for the next generation. So that was the big change uh that he gave to me when I said okay I I'll stop doing the MNC thing burning out let me go and serve uh in a place or a profile of customers uh which has never been served before why don't I do that yeah so today uh I I get expos so I deal with multigenerational uh sins And it happens a lot in businesses. It's actually tools. Sorry, equity is a tool of which assets are handed over to the next generation. And because of that, you're going to get a lot of conflicts. You're going to get a lot of disagreements. Uh you know, I have a client uh who whose father uh divorced their mom, married a stepmom, and then the three sons are working in the business who's now feeding to the estate of the stepmom. Obviously, it's going to be unforgiveness and and issues there, right? But it's it's conversations like that and I found, you know, God has opened doors to conjoin the numbers side of the business uh as well as the heart of the business from the equity point of view and really given me opportunities to to to to minister to to such scenarios. I've also uh actually I'm quite good at solving uh divorces. I had a client once drag me to the side. He said, "Hey, you know, John, can you uh can you tell me how to structure my equity?" Uh because I'm thinking of divosing my wife who also owns 50% of the business. Then I go, "Hey, hello, sir. You can't you can't uh you know, I I I I'll go to jail." Then he say, "What do you mean? I'll communicate myself because the business hired me and 50% is owned by the wife. So obviously I can't do that, right? Cuz it'll be Yeah. basically I'm stepping on my own uh on a hand that feeds me." But my point here is then I told him no I can't I can't I can't give you the strategy. It's unprofessional. What I can do is I can give you the strategy on how to chase a wife back. So you so so these are really unexpected. Hey by the way it you can actually there is a science to love from a strategy perspective as well. So I'm able to conjoin that uh and bring the and bridge that kind of uh you know strategies of use of resources right loving your wife or your spouse is the highest use of resources in the world other than loving God yourself.

The most cost efficient way to solve the problem of divorce is not to divorce.

the next point is about the book of acts and also how there the people the groups of people that no one knows like like like me for example no one knows but we we are beerings [bearings] in this in this whole big machine that eventually makes great things and impacts businesses. I think we have impacted their this church's business fellowship in few ways already and that could be you know our way to to grow our community when we be on

Well, that that's one of the main reasons I joined FTE. I like to find out and help me do that because I have to confess I'm I'm very poor at doing that. Uh and uh so what is the challenge like why you couldn't freely and easily doing it because of culture? because is it a cultural? Is it your personal? Is it it's it's a mix? I mean, it's cultural. Um, but it's primarily me, you know, I need to be um stronger in my faith. Uh, I think the the two big influences my Christian life have been Alpha, which you mentioned. We run Alpha in our church. Um, because you meet real people and you meet people that ask you about your faith. uh people who don't know Christ. We're running alpha at the moment. It's our it's our last week this this Sunday. We've got 40 people in the alpha course and uh it's it's just so challenging to me. You know, I I start by saying I'm not here because I'm perfect. But I I I need I need Jesus in my life. And FTE is is the other the other challenging area in my Christian life is men's ministry. Just being real with with other guys and helping other guys. There's a guy just WhatsApp me last night from from um from Scotland saying he's he's been split up from his wife. He's his wife's kicked him out because he's looking at the wrong stuff and that's a real challenge to me, you know. So I I do struggle w with with it. Um but it it's it's like I think the biggest thing about FTE has been uh the encouragement to tithe. And uh that's one of the verses in the Bible that I never realized it before. I spoke to my pastor about it's the only verse that in the Bible it says where the Lord says test me in this do this and test me. It's it's the only place and that is a way of giving back to the community. That's the way of giving back. So, back to the, you know, um, the 1040 window and and how to how to give back to the community is through through tithing. And I need my business to be successful to enable me to to do that. Um, so I I do struggle. I love FTE. I love I love this experience, but I do struggle with uh making it happen and witnessing

I would say that um For us to produce a great commission, we have to be very uh one way or another have to be very decent and to have a very kind of like uh straightforward uh focus whereby we need to do all things which favor God and which uh is is in line with uh our board such that we know what to do and how to do in terms of like meeting up with people and uh stay good with uh our faith. We need to have a very clear mindset that we have to be uh able to discern on ourself to live with holiness as well as to we have a very uh kind of like problem with like handling each need that we need to have hands on as well as we have the time where we need to uh discern ourself in one way or … uh upgrade ourself in one way or another to have the right and the motive the right motive to do whichever thing

I'm practicing I I really push hard uh you think Adam they they they know I sometimes I called and I said, "Hey, how about we spin off another FD in your region?" He's like, "Okay, I'll think about it." Then I'll call in one week. Okay, did you think about it? … Oh, you I say, "Were you you saying that you're going to make a girl FD?" She's like, "No, it was not me." I say, "Well, it was not you, but how about you think about it?" So, I'm trying.

actually for me it's very uh what do you call like I have some of my teams who are already Christians have a mix and then some who are not. Uh with the Christians with the Christian ones we actually do pray together. Uh so that's something uh that I I try to encourage actually some are from my church. Yeah. Some of my interns, my designers are from my church too. And uh I would like to share actually one um example couple of of months I think two months ago I was actually at a networking event so I was invited there uh it's OD company so or organization development and I met the co-founder and then we exchanged name cards and he was like oh good shepherd collective you know and I could see like okay it rings a bell to him and when we met up for one-on-one coffee. Instead of talking about business, we actually talked a lot about the kingdom of God and he asked me a lot about my father's journey. Why why good chap how did that name come about? What what is your intention in your business? And then it just became a testimony sharing uh and I think a lot of times it happens very organically and I think you know God makes bold moves and encourage us to do the same. So when um he gave me the vision of good shepherd collective it's really an imput that is a testimony to share the goodness of god and for sure I would not be here without his mercies. Um so anyway with that guy with the co-founder we started exchanging um encouragement uh notes every week and he told me that what I told him about how Jesus is the CEO in my company now he makes it a practice. So I think a lot of times like just not to be afraid to share our testimonies because they are very powerful and everyone's testimony is so different. It really shows how God shows up for us and he will always have our back.

So one thing we could do we could incorporate that in our name of the business, right? Or in product names or in a vision and that could be a conversation starter, right? Especially here in Asia because honestly I found that people are very slow into moving the conversation in that direction.

I wanted to bring up uh so the the measurement of disciplehip uh in the context of a business can be measured through uh cultures values and competencies. Now the reason why I'm sharing this right is um if you look at how I've worked with quite a lot of clients um and some of them are also Christian uh owners and um from an agnostic point of view then they have to create values and typically these values are inspired by the Bible uh directly from the Holy Spirit most of the time and then and then how does that trickle down into disciplehip boils down to um the way they do their I mean talent processes is what how they lead. So it's done through competencies and down through culture. Uh and you can see actually in the case study of the the video that we just watched. Yeah, that's extremely uh relevant. So I've actually done a case uh like that for uh client as well quite similar although smaller. Uh but my point is that's how we make disciples. Uh because the common language in the world uh if they do not know the language of God is then what are my values that you have? So what are the values that you uh that you can share with me that I'm looking for since I joined your company? I want to be a little bit more like you or most of the time actually employees they want to be better than the boss. I mean assuming they they put it's a great result if they're all better than boss. That's right. That's right. So the disciplehip uh then follows right. So how do we structure our values uh that influences our cultures?

the guy um on the talk mentioned Tinddale, the story about Tindale. Yes. Yeah. And uh I recently one of the great things I'll need to share it with you, [FACILITATOR], because I think it's it really helped me um pick picking up on what you said. It's it's it's called the redemptive business model. So the business canvas where you where you look at your business and you you really look at the lament practice practice canvas, right? Yeah. Yeah. as an organizational practice. They have this redemptive yes redemptive business model and you look at the lament and how you are um you know uh returning for returning a Christian benefit and value to your investors and your partners. It's a it's a lovely business model. It's the guy in in Canada, the Tindale um University in Toronto.

practically what's could be done is we could just you know don't just tell everyone hey sign up FD ah here's a book for you okay do this do that we could do some stories we can make it very personal for example I was very blessed to have a couple of absolutely impossible to argue with stories showing that what is with me I sure I shared one with you today I had something from my childhood like this. So I meet I don't really need to you know say hey I just believe that's my faith that's why I say okay well let's say put aside all the Christianity I just tell you a story what do you think or this is happening with our business this way and it was a consistence of this what do you think and then they make conclusion by themsel and they come back to by themsel very often right so think and and therefore we marketers, the people who actually know the language and the tactics and the sales people. It's even more our job to spread not just the gospel but also the FD because we can do it well. We can make it impactful our people for customers for the community. So please think about it if you can group people in doesn't need to be this FD group can be any doesn't need to be even this community can be any just keep doing this because we are very well equipped and this is really very much our job otherwise we will be hiding our talents putting them in the ground I'm not sure that's the best strategy

um I think for me uh in my experience uh also with um in terms of in during my corporate life and also with currently some clients. So I think um I feel that uh especially working with non-believers then um sometimes um uh definitely there are kind of a different values. Yeah. So I think uh it's a it's kind of uh for me it's uh it's it's a balancing act in terms of uh sometimes very occupied with their expectations the performance of the or the deliverables and then um I think uh in terms of infecting them for price I think it's about showing up as um serving them like serving them and sometimes when uh some things or there are different areas of disagreement or conflict I think um I still need to step back and think how I respond, how I react and things like that. So so I think sometimes uh there is a challenge. Yeah. I think Yeah. So but I think God is always in the work of molding and refining us through our work and business. Yeah. So in the terms of um sharing the gospel I think uh I had some experience where I teach to customer and then they kind of like open up and share like their personal struggles in a in a like business meeting. So I think um the fact that uh they're open I think and then I also felt that if I think this this person um like uh other than um working for a business I think she needs God or I think there's a something that God's God allowed me to hear a story and then uh maybe uh uh sew a seed uh in her life in a sense.

we going to have our next session either in December or in Jan. We haven't decided yet. uh but um it's likely that that session will be in a in a different uh in a different uh location not at city harvest but maybe somewhere in center maybe in a harbor front in one of the businesses there. So please monitor in a group where we meet. One thing to note is we are not just foundational study of D. We are always on group. Our purpose is to be the next step for those who finish the foundational course and our purpose also will be to be that that place where you can come every month. We'll be there for you. We will have a conversation with ourselves but focus on God, focus on the businesses, focus actually solving those problems that we have which is very important and we should keep that DNA.

So right now, working on my fourth startup... it is a post-series B stage company... So we raised 16 million, 15 million by the way, about 300 people... So in May I left basically... By now I'm launching something new where I'm a solo founder. I don't have anybody working for me and with me yet. But army of [agents] I hope to employ... I'm the coder, the founder, the CEO, the [business] guy, the legal guy, the accountant in my company.

My name is [FACILITATOR]. I'm running a company in marketing... It's AI based. My background is from the [Russia?]. I came to [Singapore] with my PhD... when AI was not called AI yet... I've been in Singapore for 13 years... Fun fact, kids. How many kids? Yeah, I've [got] three kids... They make me feel very fun.

I'm [M019] from the Singapore [Repertory] Theatre... it's not my [theatre], I work there. So I'm in charge of the education... I'm not a theater expert... some shows I don't like but I have to do... before I rejoined SRT, I was running my own [pre?]school, but some of the students asked me to help family offices, rich families, and our childcare centers in Southeast Asia.

Hi, my name is [M047]. I worship at the Philadelphia Church [ASR]. Currently, Chief of Staff... for [a] startup... manufactured products, jet planes... Because salesmen try [to] sell a Ferrari... We've given them... a [3D] model that you can manipulate. You can rotate the Ferrari...

So I say, okay, first I'm not a business person, I'm a [tech person] for the last nine years, or seven... I'm not a space person, I don't know anything about that... because I'm really part of that kind of commercial partner of A-Star, it is kind of like easier for me to get involved because they need somebody who is really approved. So I'm like the default commercial guy who is less experienced than people who are being involved.

hello everyone my name is [F061] so I [worship] at [City Harvest] church. I am actually born in Taiwan but I grew up in Singapore. And then I was [a] marketer, and then now in... digital marketing, providing services like... performance marketing... I enjoy silence and solitude. And it's very refreshing to spend time with... silence, solitude, spiritual[ity], and [change].

My name is [[M004]]... My father's business is [an] English business. So I'm a pastor at [Geneva?]. I build teams training for ministry. So I'm a trainer. And the fact about me, I think I'm a priest [prefect?]. You know, it used to be I was a priest... So we had to wear robes... they asked me to give a key... So, I'm the key man.

So, just the spirit made me here. I think Professor [FACILITATOR] also sent me, he reminded me of a thing or something. So, someone and my friends, two of my friends, they came before... and they wanted to come again. So today, since they are here... they don't know anyone. They only know me, so they want me to be here.

I'm not in business all the while. I'm in [?], in academ[ic] research... I have a company, but I don't really use it for big things... I speak Japanese. I lived in Japan for many years... I have been serving at the [Tokyo?] Union Church. Locally, I belong to the Methodist Church... But I also [?] with the Catholic [?], because I've been [at?] a Catholic, Catholic [?]...

Hi, I'm [FACILITATOR]... We do business governance and compliance... If you're doing a startup... you have no idea what compliance you need to do... So that's why I'm in the business of other people helping them succeed with their businesses right now in whatever way it is... I wanted to be a pilot because I still want to be... You can't treat the unknown [as] the wrong possible pattern.

But staying off with the first one, dignity... [they don't] just pay them... You need to help them see themselves as bearers of [God's image]... Because with a business like [Sseko], it's very easy to say, oh well, we're hiring underprivileged... and that becomes a product, right?

So I'm starting a new business... going to international schools to get them a platform to use an AI agent to complete a capstone project... so I made a commitment to myself that 10%... if I hit 100 students... 1000 students... it should be from communities that traditionally don't have access to their platform. So that's a commitment that I set... they told me, don't do that until you actually have a partner... But I'm quite committed to achieve that.

Actually, it can be a big big thing. Because in the line of looking at... international schools, they are owned by rich family businesses. And they actually have this mission also that they wanted to reach out to communities that don't have access to it. But they don't have infrastructure to realize that vision... But you have to be very true to that mission. You cannot be afraid. You cannot be afraid of people.

since the fashion [company] has been started... it's even a sandal company can be God's company right... whatever business that we do there's no meaningless business... everything can be done [for] the person you come in right so really what ordinary part of the business you assume is too small too secular... i believe there is an opportunity to glorify god in that aspect of business

So the other part that I handle... is how to provide [under]privileged children the opportunity to come to the theater... sometimes... there's [a] CSR thing that they have to do. But for me, because my background is a school teacher... my [heart] is [for the] underprivileged... under-served families, you don't get to go to the shows... Previously when I was running... we [did] consult[ancy] [for the] rich, and then we found out resources to engage... some non-profit free schools in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the [Philippines?].

So, the three is really the bridge, not a handout, right? ...a lot of organisations, especially when you're trying to serve... it's a donation or a charity based right. But yeah, there's this model... match that by up to 300%... So when you also go, right, you think, is there a job that you can create...? Maybe even if it's a fictional role, right? Just think outside the box.

I just can relate this number three to the way we run [FDE]... over the last six months... we [went] in[to] the deficit as a commun[ity]... we're very blessed by the [donations] in the beginning... but last six months apart from August... we actually get into the deficit... Because the community is so rich, everybody is entrepreneurs, local businesses. But you need to push them to pay. That seems to become very personal to me... [to] find the balance between being in a community where anyone can come in... [someone] [drives] the Rolls Royce here and they can talk to each other... not because of their job... or not because of their money.

First, when people are just given with some blessing like scholarship... they get a chance to study university, they might actually not believe it, and some of them might feel a little bit shy... why does [somebody] [pay for] my education? Because I couldn't pay. They don't really want to be in that position... I thought that I was lucky to get the [?] of charity and the faith.

So I still don't have a solution for the F.D. side, to be honest... Everything needs to be balanced... in a mutual understanding and a mutual vision of the whole group... it doesn't matter 5 people or 55, we had almost 55 coming right?... The community that actually is growing because we have a [F022] audience with us, and we will not stop doing this... I feel quite encouraged...

I studied in Uganda [?] but I know many people from Uganda... Some of them are mostly in Japan... They can be sent back to the family. They serve there in their own company.

I think because I mean, personally I [research] education and social welfare... education and funding... can often create [F022]-term empowerment [not] one-time assistance. This is not just through donation, through financial assistance. But social welfare should help people... flourish [while] preserving their dignity. Because as we just now also, I think we watched about Genesis 1... [every] person's dignity... agency... [each is] created in God's image. So this is, I think, very important. And also, I believe kingdom work is not limited to church activities, that's why I'm so involved in being part of the outside of this.

I think a small initiative can [bring]... good ideas, knowledge and opportunities that are shared across communities and generations... So, number five, which story are you part of? ...students are... persons with their own stories, their views, their struggles, and potential. And to serve well [is] first to see people... as how God see them, how Christ see each person.

She moved to Uganda... set up a manufacturing hub... then she managed to put it into a distribution model where she found salespeople in the US... it looks like, hey, it's kind of like an MLM sort of way... I think... something like an M.L.[M.] model could work with the right contacts. So it's not that the model is bad, right? It's the way that the model is approached... How could you approach that... in a non-exploitative sort of manner.

I personally do a bit of this... we could just be a software, sell ourselves, grow... But it's not really working like this... So what we recently started doing is we humble ourselves, okay, we are actually an engine that can let anyone build a marketing platform... I found a very experienced marketing agency director who just sold his agency so we give him our tool, we say okay we don't want our name to be there... We have a conversation now that probably maybe 10% of his shares he wants to pass [to a] non-profit organization... Then, same thing happened with China...

he came to Singapore, my partner... He was going through a divorce with his wife... he couldn't see his kids... And then we met to just discuss some business... and about Jesus for three hours. And I think my main advice to him was just to be really kind to his wife... And then he said, you wouldn't believe me, but I was coming out from my hotel and then there was a big [banner]... in the hotel lobby saying, Jesus is love, come to our event. And then after that he went back... and finally gave up everything he was fighting for... and now he has access to his kids... And he is my partner in my company.

So this is very unconventional way because you actually enabling others with the [tech] you build... my name is not mentioned anywhere... but ultimately give you so much opportunities to actually get other business[es]... [or] Christian[s] to start... Because you actually have an influence in their business... This is my answer to [going global] in an unconventional way... It's an opportunity to talk to... very powerful business owners.

someone['s] talking about business... He sacrificed a lot of the financial part [of the] business to keep running... you can be a minister, you may not be a [full-time] minister, but your impact on others, whether it's in work, in the marketplace, in businesses... it's amazing... Really, if you have the [heart of] God, the sacrifices, while it may seem [insurmountable]...

if you like to consider donating [to] the ministry every month, multiple tiers, 10 to 30 to 50 to 100... we definitely don't want this community to be [driven] by money. We want business. We help each other by meeting. And we do better business. We sacrifice first, then we get together. That's true that our business is blessed because it's very rational that [God] would have given us more resources to make it more good... and it's always works okay so this is the lots of proof

Actually, I've been following faith driven entrepreneur from LinkedIn and socials and also the podcast for quite some time... Personally [a] believer and I actually introduced one of my friends [to] this community... His name is Maku... They are my brothers from the church.

the world is heating up... It's all driven by the human nature of technological advancement, industrialization, consumerism. So we want to actually... [what] God has taught us about caring for his creation... we are facing a time where... the end times... we will face a lot of... environmental pressures... Because we have neglected... to live out the purpose of [stewardship]... everything still has a purpose when we learn to upcycle... So, I would say God's wisdom is what we do.

The [8] sessions [are] officially over, what we'll do... we will [meet] every second Wednesday. The big one I think is next month, so we might not have a second Wednesday next month. We'll do it [as a] watch party... a huge [Faith Driven] entrepreneur conference and huge slew of speakers... We'll try to make it a little more interesting... get some local entrepreneurs in the space to come by.