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A Letter From a Pastor

Dear Os,
I had the most amazing experience in church on Sunday. I wish you could have been here. Let me explain. During this last module of the College of Prayer, I was convicted as Vanessa Battle was teaching on marketplace ministry and my lack of prayer support for our marketplace leaders. I saw the people during worship and confessed that while I had recruited over 150 prayer partners for myself, I failed to pray for them in their marketplace, though their prayers are equally as valid as my own. I asked them to write their name on a piece of paper, and underneath that to put down their employer and their position. Then I asked them to write down the name of their boss and the CEO of their company so I could pray for those in authority over them as well as praying for their marketplace. You would have not have believed the response.

It was overwhelming. Our people flocked forward with their slips of paper. When I then led in prayer for everyone who responded, the place erupted in applause. Our people are praying people, but they have never responded like that before. When I asked God to tear down the dividing wall between the sacred and the secular and led us in a prayer to declare our marketplace holy to God, the place just about erupted. I sensed the pleasure of God in the moment at a very profound level. Thanks for being a good example to me Os.

Pastor Fred Hartley
Lilburn Alliance Church, Atlanta, Georgia

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Want to launch a workplace ministry inside your local church?

Here’s how we can help you.

First we encourage you to read The Faith At Work Movement: What Every Pastor and Church Leader Should Know.

It is a compilation of chapters by many leaders of national workplace ministries and contains MANY practical applications. This book will answer most of the questions you have about how to integrate workplace ministry inside your local church. Learn More and Order

What MUST be understood is that workplace ministry cannot be “another ministry” of your church. It must be part of your DNA, or core philosphy of ministry. This book will help you understand what that looks like. It will answer the what, why, and how of church-based workplace ministry. It includes historical data and facts, church case studies, work-related sermon ideas and biographical examples, a bibliography of books on the topic of faith and work, scriptures on work, and much more. Click here to read Dr. Peter Wagner’s foreword to this book.

“An excellent resource for the Body of Christ and a great encouragement to see the practical ways others have implemented their faith at work. Kudos, Os. A job well done!” – Dennis Peacocke, President, Strategic Christian Services

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How To Encourage and Equip Those You Serve

Marketplace Leaders provides a practical way to apply within your church the concepts in Os Hillman’s book, Faith and Work is a combination of three online tools you can use to Equip, and Encourage your congregation on a daily basis in their vocations where they spend 60-70% of their time. Each day, those who are on your church email list can receive a faith at work devotional email that greatly encourages and ministers to them as well as allows you to communicate with them about upcoming events, prayer requests, announcements, messages from the pastor, and more. The daily devotional is sent from our email server but has your church name and logo at the top so those who receive it see it as a ministry service you are providing to them.

“I’m not sure when I started receiving this daily email. However, it is God’s Providence that I receive it. I did not start reading it faithfully until a couple of months ago when I was going through a struggle. Each day I read the message, the Lord is using it to confirm what He is doing in my life. Most of all, the Lord has told me to trust Him and obey Him. It is so evident God is speaking to you as you prepare each day’s message. God is growing me so much through the wisdom I receive in these daily devotionals. I have forwarded them often to friends and they have told that God speaks to them as well through the message.” – Missy P

New! Change Agent Video Course Equips Your People to be Change Agents!
Our new 20-part video series based on Os Hillman’s new book, Change Agent is ideal for home groups, workplace groups, and church Sunday schools.

http://www.changeagentbook.com/change_agent_video_course/

Download excerpt from book at www.ChangeAgentbook.com

The next tool is unlimited access to helpful online articles on over 20 work-related topics written by leading authors and speakers. You can link to these articles from your main church website as well as a link within your daily email devotional. Article topics include:

Adversity, Conflict Management, Entrepreneurship, Balancing Family & Work, Ethics/Values, Evangelism, Hearing God, Leadership, Legal Rights, Prayer, Money, Sales, Spiritual Warfare, Theology of Work, Work as Ministry, City Transformation, Intimacy With God, and more

Finally, your church will be an affiliate of the TGIF bookstore (TGIFbookstore.com) to equip your workplace believers with the very best faith at work resources that are difficult to find in local Christian bookstores. These are books, CD’s, DVD’s and e-Books that make an important contribution to the spiritual growth and maturity of Christians and relate specifically to their workplace calling. You will earn a commission on every bookstore order, but you won’t have to fulfill orders or stock inventory.

Learn more and enroll in the TGIF Partner Program

More Tools and Resources For Your Church

Read Os Hillman’s article on City Transformation and the Role of the Marketplace Marketplace. Listen to a 5 minute audio message on key elements needed to see transformation.

Host TGIF on Your Church Website
We provide a free technology that automatically displays the current day’s TGIF devotional on your church website. Once the script is loaded onto your site, nothing else has to be done for the devotional to appear each day. Get the code!

Uniting Workplace Leaders and the Local Church – 3 Part Audio CD Includes two messages: one by Os Hillman in which he addresses the question ‘Do business people want to control the church?’ and another message by Kent Humphreys with practical solutions for how pastors can reach out to business leaders in their congregations. Bonus Track Ed Silvoso, Dr Peter Wagner, and others give input on this topic of uniting workplace and church leaders in an “open-mic” discussion. Learn More and Order

The Church in the Workplace
Dr. C. Peter Wagner, who is a former seminary professor and now heads up Global Harvest Ministries and author of 70 books, has a unique gift of identifying where the Spirit of God is moving on the earth today as it relates to the Church. The Church in the Workplace is a book and CD in which he makes important observations about God’s move in the workplace and it relevance to the local church. This is a must read & listen for every workplace ministry leader and pastor. Learn More and Order

Quick Start Articles
Want to get up to speed quickly? Below are several articles and excerpts from The Faith@Work Movement: What Every Pastor and Church Leader Should Know

What Is Workplace Ministry? A Q&A interview with Os Hillman

The Faith and Work Movement: Opening the 9 to 5 Window

Case Studies: 5 Churches that are Making Paradigm Shift

Host The 9 to 5 Window Workshop for your Local Church

How can you experience God in your work? Why do most of us tend to segment our spiritual life from our work life? Can I really know God’s will for my life? How can I make decisions that will be blessed by God? Why do most Christians in the workplace live a defeated life? Is there really a move of God in the workplace today? What are the four types of Christians in the workplace?

The 9 to 5 Window Workshop with Os Hillman is an intensive one-day training workshop that helps men and woman understand God’s view and purposes for work and equips and mobilizes them for workplace ministry. The workshop is presented in five modules:

Session 1- Discovering Your Purpose
Os Hillman gives an overview of the theology of work and calling. You will understand why God created you and how to discover your unique purpose. You will understand how Satan tries to deceive Christians by keeping them in the dark about their purpose and calling.

Session 2- Your Work Is A Calling
What are the four types of Christians in the workplace and how can you avoid failing to fulfill your calling? What really defines a Christian in the workplace who is transforming their workplace, city, and even nation? Why did Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron, have the perfect mission statement but get convicted for his actions? This practical session gives you the answers and the action steps needed to move forward in your workplace call.

Session 3- Hindrances To Fulfilling Your Call

What is a religious spirit and how does it affect the average person in the workplace? How do spiritual strongholds keep men and women from fulfilling their destinies? What steps are necessary to experience a deep level of intimacy with God? In this session, you will get these answers and more as you learn the four key hindrances that prevent people from living a dynamic Christian experience in and through their work lives.

Session 4- The Role Of Adversity In Your Call

Os lost his marriage, his business, and a half million dollars in investments within a three month time period. through his 7 year experience, he came to understand the role adversity plays in our calling. He was totally restored of all that he lost at the end of seven years. Os has a very deep understanding of the role adversity plays in the life of workplace believers. The answers will surprise you. If you find yourself in adversity, this session alone is worth the cost of the workshop. Most people cite this teaching as their most enlightening and encouraging session. The teaching in this segment is based upon Os’ book, The Upside Of Adversity: Rising From The Pit To Greatness.

Session 5- Kingdom of God into the Workplace

This final and inspiring session explains what it looks like to apply the principles laid down in sessions 1-4. You will learn what it means to walk with God at work and to experience the miraculous! Inspiring video testimonies of leaders from around the world, case studies of Christians who are living out their faith in tangible ways will build vision for you. This session also deals with hearing God’s voice in the workplace and how to appropriate His anointing for your life. You will learn the keys of receiving from God and how to balance the natural with the spiritual. You will be ready to take your faith to the marketplace after this session.
To learn more about this workshop, click here.

Questions?
If you have additional questions about launching a workplace ministry in your local church, call or contact us. We have developed cooperative relationships with other ministries that are serving the local church and can help you determine the best avenue for your church based on your needs. Contact us