[00:00:00] In 1964, a friend of mine whose dad was a carpenter said, Let’s build a house. I think we can make some money if we build a house. I’m kind of an entrepreneur type guy, so I said, Okay, let’s do that. You know, by 1991, I would have had three and a half million dollars in the bank, and I thought, Man, there’ll never be another poor day.

But the Lord had other plans, and it all went away. I mean, almost overnight. I grew up going to work with him, and I had business in my blood from, You know, From the early days, real estate business, in fact, specifically, I got excited about building homes. I said, hey, I’m going to start this business. And he helped me get it started.

He and Rick joined, um, and they changed the name of the company, and it became Beat and Bo Homes. And then I came back to this, what are we going to do if we make some money? Dad said, hey, you know, let’s, uh, The Bible says to give your first fruits. We make a profit on our land, and that is technically the first profits, the first fruits.

We plan to, to give our development profits away. The first year God [00:01:00] provided 360, 000. through all of that land for us to be able to give.

As we opened that portal from business to ministry and, and would give profits to these ministries, God started getting hold of the people that were inside our walls and transforming their hearts and giving them passions for the kingdom. We realized at that moment that The external ministry and the external giving, giving of the profits of the company, was only a small part of the true ministry God had given us here.

The resources that I’m calling you to invest into my kingdom aren’t just monetary, but they are your people. First thing that came to us was, you know, we’ve got to share the company with these employees. I only own 10 percent interest in this company. We have given the rest of the company away to the [00:02:00] other people who work here.

My job is to focus on the employees. And so I do things to help them grow professionally, personally, and spiritually. We care about you, you know, and we care about you more than just as an employee. We started celebrating anniversaries and birthdays and having baby showers and graduation parties. And Employee Appreciation Dinners.

We plan a couple mission trips every year. And the neat thing is that we tie it in with Christian organizations that we give to financially as well. Anyone who’s been here a year can go on a mission trip with their entire family. And it’s completely expense paid. We, uh, sponsored a ministry in Brazil and actually had the opportunity to take my family on a mission trip.

It was just really, I mean, just really a wonderful, wonderful trip to be able to take my family on. We just had a family. After our Brazil trip to the Amazon, got our husband, who wasn’t a believer at the time, to Start going to church and they started [00:03:00] going to church after that and now are really plugged into a church We actually had one girl who actually came back and decided she wanted to be a foster mom After all that and seeing all those kids at the orphanage without parents.

She said I want to be a foster mom it’s been an incredible journey of how god has Taken me from when I came here. Just uh, really somebody that’s pretty lost To somebody that really wants to serve God, I thought that that would mean that I would have to leave business and go into the full time ministry.

But what I realize now is I can be in full time ministry right out here in the marketplace. I can be a part of his work right here in a home building company. And that’s incredible to me. So many people come in and out of this place. You have an opportunity to touch just literally thousands. Uh, not just homeowners, not just employees, not just owners of the company, but trade partners, uh, suppliers.

The chain just goes on and on and on. Full time ministry is [00:04:00] right here in the marketplace. Everybody has to go to work. You don’t have to go to church. You know, you don’t have to go to, to small groups, but you do have to go to work. All of us have to work to make a living in the marketplaces where you spend most of your time.

Just take the first step. Commit, commit your relationship in the marketplace to Christ.