Five years ago this week, I resigned from my VP, Sales and Marketing role at J.B. Hunt Transport and started as the first and only employee of WorkMatters! We had just completed spinning this workplace ministry out of its founding church, Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, AR and had incorporated into a 501(C)3 non-profit organization.
My WorkMatters calling began when I decided to invest a Saturday morning on April 27, 2002 to go to Central United Methodist Church to attend a John Maxwell leadership simulcast. It was at the end of that fateful morning that Tom Frase, an Associate Pastor at Central, stood on the stage and launched this new workplace ministry called WorkMatters. My life changed in that moment.
Little did I know that 18 months later, WorkMatters would be launched in October, 2003 as a non-profit organization and that I would walk away from, well, security. But as I look back now five years later, I see that my whole career, in fact my whole adult life, was being orchestrated for this exact opportunity.
WorkMatters is FIVE years old! Countless leaders have given of themselves, their time, their money, their prayers, their talent…to get us to this great milestone. God has used this ministry in some powerful ways to influence thousands of men and women in the marketplace. While we can’t wait to see what’s around the next corner, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate, to say thank you to Him and to you for joining us in this awesome cause of helping men and women to bridge the gap between their faith and their work.
I can’t wait for the next five years!
“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1
Davo,
congratulations on five years! One thing I have learned in the five years is that WorkMatters does matter. Little by little, newsletter by newsletter, podcast by podcast, you have touched thousands of lives including mine. Congratulations on crossing state lines as WorkMatters in Kentucky too.
Because of all of the encouragement and guidance from the information on the Workmatters website and newsletters, I have started a small group at my workplace which is at the local hospital in Cartersville, Georgia where I live. David, thank you and the rest of the staff of Workmatters for encouraging me to “bridge the gap between faith and work”.
Congratulations!! What a difference you and the organization have made and will continue to make. Thank you for your faith and commitment!