“Instead you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”   James 4:15

Tomorrow our WorkMatters Board of Directors will spend the day together at a Board Retreat. That’s marketing-speak for “we will sit in someone else’s conference room all day and contemplate the future.”

Seriously, I am very excited about this day. For five plus years, WorkMatters has had a burden to help men and women in the marketplace “bridge the gap between faith and work”. Tom Frase founded WorkMatters at Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville, AR. I joined the original Board, then after one year, left my VP, Sales/Marketing role at J.B. Hunt Transport to lead this ministry into the unknown. It has been an incredible journey.

Tomorrow, we will spend the entire day praying, thinking, talking and listening to the vision the Lord has for WorkMatters next five years! What is our burden now? What are the needs of men and women in the marketplace now and in the future? How can we help more people?

For sure, awareness and equipping men and women to live like Christ in the “four walls” of the workplace will be a priority. But how about the need to create and release more spiritual marketplace leaders commited to disciple others? What about the more strategic issue of how our work influences, either positively or negatively, our marriages. Or our parenting? What about the “ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8)?

I would be grateful if you would remember WorkMatters in your prayers tomorrow. That we would hear God’s “gentle whisper” (1Kings 19:12) for his workplace ministry WorkMatters.

We LOVE what we do. We believe “the market” for transforming lives by encouraging and equipping men and women to see Christ in their work is enormous. We humbly wait to see what He will have to say to us tomorrow.

For Him @ work,

David