I’ve been thinking about something for a while.
I have all these friends around me in my own little community who are unemployed, or who don’t have the greatest jobs. Their jobs tend to take a lot of their time, don’t pay much, and have very inflexible schedule and thus take away from their ability to serve in part-time volunteer ministry. All of them each have their own unique abilities and gifts, and I believe they’re all extraordinary at what they do.
I personally have a lot of contacts in the business world from a reputation I’ve built up as the “genius kid who fixes things, makes them work, and comes up with creative and innovative stuff.” I’ve also gathered a lot experience over the years of why businesses and projects fail.
There are a lot of opportunities that come my way, but I tend to pass them up because I know I lack the resources to carry them out. One of them being time, and not being well organized. However, one resource I do have a lot of is technical knowledge and infrastructure.
So I was thinking… I really should start a business and instead of it being about making money for myself, make it about utilizing and employing the talented people around me who don’t have jobs, or don’t have jobs that use their gifts. I’m sort of feeling this could be something the holy spirit is putting on my heart–if anything it could help put more people into ministry at my local church since they won’t have to juggle chaotic work schedules.
There was a book I saw at Hull’s that made me think about this, it was called, All Business is Show Business. It talked about creating business culture through creative means–as I flipped through it I thought to myself that it had my name pretty much written all over it.
So this post is meant to start conversation about my idea. First thing I’ll need for our business venture is a board of mentors–just people I can harass for their advice and mentorship. I’ll also probably need a couple of extroverted and administrative type people since that’s one of my main weaknesses. And then we can probably think of business purposes, vision and mission statements… and all that sort of thing–probably more of my area of expertise, day dreaming.
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