A Kingdom at Work Film
Description
Volkert Muijs went from a life of ambition and long work hours to finding peace and purpose through faith. After facing a crisis in his marriage, he turned to God and surrendered his life to Christ, which restored his peace and relationship. He began seeing his business as a ministry, focusing on service, relationships, and helping others connect with God. Today, Volkert finds fulfillment in making a positive impact on his employees, customers, and their families, recognizing his work as part of his spiritual calling.
One guy came up to me and he said “God
has a plan for your
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life.” God that God the great
God for me Folk I’m ful I’m from Bunhold
Come on What can he do with Fit from
Bunter
The first picture that I have working
together with my father was that I was
sitting in his big truck next to him
helping with errands right I grew into
that business and that’s what I want to
do The name is
Fishandle Fame House It’s a typically
Dutch name fish mouse Start with that
I work on the market with folate We sell
fish
There’s a lot of uh production work
before you go to the
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market We also sell the Dutch herring of
course So if you ever visit the
Netherlands you can try the
herring The cabling is like fried fish
filt with flour and sauce It’s really
like a snack Muscles oysters still fried
fish When I was young I said I will
never marry with a
fisherman I married with folk and now my
two boys also like to sell fish on the
marketplace It’s really my passion
I did it for 35 years and I’m happy with
my life When you look in the ministry of
Jesus Christ he has three top disciples
right He has 12 but the three top ones
are fishermen So I think that God loves
fishermanmen more than other people It’s
just my
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thoughts I want to do stuff by myself I
want to pioneer stuff and I want to go
fast
I was under my father’s wings and it was
okay for a couple of years but I wanted
to fly
Moneywise we were making a lot of money
We had a good team also But during that
time I worked too much too hard
F could always work from 5:00 in the
morning 60 hours or 70 hours a week
I wanted to be successful That was my
purpose I was really ambitious But that
ambition caught up with me and I was
also busy So then we focus was born and
when you’re working for the wrong
reasons it it is hard on you right you
become a slave I was a
slave of course in the weekends then you
need to blow off some steam so you so uh
we will go to parties then you needed
the Sunday to sleep and to recover and
then Monday it was back to business so
we lost each other in these years you
lose touch with your family you lose
touch with your with your friends I
thought okay this is part of life I saw
it also happen in my parents’ life and I
said this is part of marriage and it
will blow
over After maybe 6 7 years into this I
was burning myself out I could not do
this
anymore March
2006 she called me I was on the road and
she
said “I cannot live like this anymore
I’m not happy.”
We had our problems in our marriage and
then I decided uh I want to divorce you
So then she hung up the
phone What divorce No I never I don’t
want a divorce We have a son together I
would promise before God that I would be
with my wife until death to his part and
now a divorce I was really afraid and I
cried out to God in that moment I asked
him I said “Lord what did I do wrong?”
The Lord showed me like a movie in front
of my eyes
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You can live your life keep on living
your life like this but then you will
lose everything you think you have or
you can surrender your life to Jesus
Christ and then I will help
you Jesus here I
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am My
mind became clear
peace I’ve lost that through all of that
ambition right All of that selfish
ambition I’ve lost that I was running
and running and running and I was tired
and now I have
peace I need to go home and say sorry to
my wife He asked me to stay and that he
want to try to do his best This was a
whole new beginning in our
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relationship I wanted to tell everybody
about Jesus right
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So it’s like
yeah
songs he was full of the Holy Spirit The
only thing he can do was talking about
the Holy Spirit about the Lord about
Jesus And then I asked the Lord again
please give him a little bit less of the
Holy Spirit
I was called now and I thought I I I
need to go become a pastor right I lead
a church or something or maybe go on
missions and go to Africa and help the
poor people over there because God has
called
me After a couple of years I met some
people that really had like kingdom
knowledge and they did not only tell
about it they demonstrated by their
lifestyle more practical Their business
was their
ministry I never dreamt of that God
could be part of my company That was
such a big lie in my head that on Sunday
you go to church right And during the
week you are the boss business and
calling is something differently I will
serve at the church I was thinking like
that But now I really also see that you
can use a business as a calling And that
really opened up my mind When you’re
called by God you can also have a
ministry in the business world How how
can I make this work better now So I
needed to change also the way I did
business now
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each other
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It is 24/7 relational with him in all
that we do I love the most to have like
conversations with customers and to
deliver them a service to give them good
fish good products and to see them happy
Now it’s more a social working place
That is also why the people are changing
This was lifegiving to our company It
was lifegiving to our people working in
our company This was lifegiving for our
customers Connect We help people to
connect with God and with each other
grow We really want them to grow and we
see growth Go and make
disciples The creator of heaven and
earth that was seemed far away because I
was just a little fisherman from
Sparkenburg I tried to change my life
for 30 years I couldn’t change it Now
he’s helping to change my life and I see
it also in the life of my wife I see it
in the life of my children I’m proud of
uh Folit because he has a a huge impact
on the lives of his employees but also
on their families Thank you for being my
friend Not only
to also to Jesus
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This is the kingdom of God right Wow
Yeah
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Everybody
else smile
Let’s pray We just want to honor you for
who you are It’s been quite an journey
and an adventure so far So and I’m
looking forward what the Lord has next
for me
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