Follower of One : Missions For The Rest Of Us

A Passion for Mentorship

Meet Pete Cafarchio, a mentor,  life coach, and a professional development entrepreneur. Pete brings over 30 years of non-profit Christian ministry and software start-up experience to build his passion for mentorship. What does your destiny look like? How dynamic is your road map to achieving what called has called you to do? In this episode of the Follower of One podcast, we learn Pete's story and how we can begin to accomplish the tasks in front of us. 

Episode Breakdown:

1:30 - Meet Pete

5:30 - The We Align process and Strength Finder

7:00 - Faith and Work Integration Solutions

12:30 - How to get practical examples for your workplace

17:00 - Finding Strengths and Complimenting Weaknesses

21:00 - Changing what we look for from God

25:45 - How to mobilize into the workforce

31:30 - Advice on Action 

35:00 - Connect with Pete

Faith and Work Integration

How do we align our faith in the workplace? What types of examples can we build upon to integrate faith into the workplace? Pete talks with Mike about how to apply lessons being taught during service into the everyday workplace. Most of the examples we are given are not directly relatable to our workplace and this seems to be the first obstacle in connecting teaching to work-life applications. Testimony is your most likely answer to this problem. You need to talk to the people around you. For example -  joining the community at Follower of One can give you access to Christians who are focused on bringing their faith into the workplace, we can then use resources like this to build practical action to your lessons from Sundays. (Hint: In this very episode, Pete clearly defines a great way to differentiate how the Bible is applicable in your company "Kings vs. Priests")

Change What We Are Looking For

Most of us today might have a very romantic view on when God calls on us, or when God is acting in the world. For example - we might be looking for a “something big” (miracle) in our daily lives and not and something small (God told me to listen and understand other people’s points of view today). God is consistently and persistently acting and presenting himself to us but we might miss most of these cues. "We have to learn to translate the kingdom of God" - Pete Cafarchio. This is difficult but we strive to build upon our knowledge and the key is to translate and interpret what happens each and every day. 

How can we mobilize? 

Seeds have been planted over the past 15 years in the Faith at Work environment. We need to share, distribute and cultivate more resources from our friends, communities, and leaders in the workforce. For example, this could come directly from our small groups, or maybe from our bible study, we have with friends each week. There are more and more people building traction on this "mission" and by deciding to take action - we can impact many more lives than we think. 

Getting in Touch:

Website

Pete's Blog

LinkedIn

Email: [email protected]

Radio Broadcast

Outwardly Focused Living

How do we become outwardly focused Christians? What does it mean to be outwardly focused? In this Episode of the Follower of One Podcast, Mike speaks with Doug Pollock who is an author, speaker, and coaching evangelist. Doug's main goal is to build a foundation for Christians to live an outwardly focused life, which means that our work lives on, outside of the church. Listen in to learn the details!  

Episode Breakdown:

1:15 - Meet Doug Pollock 

2:50 - Doug's Book "God's Space"

9:00 - Building relationships outside of church

11:25 - Invest your time, don’t just spend it

14:10 - Life Changing Story

20:30 - Listening Well

28:50 The Beauty of Wondering

32:05 - Conversations with Convicted Civility 

39:00 - Doug's work

Can we all be equipped to be Evangelists? 

Not everyone is made to be the evangelists you see on stage or around crowds. Yet, God put us here to be his voice in a deafening crowd. So how can we all be equipped if we have different skill sets? Doug speaks on this, and it all starts with building practical, authentic and doable actions that everyone can accomplish. So, in short, Yes! You can be equipped but its not as easy as buying something online. It takes practice and determination. A great resource to take these actions to the next step is in Doug's book "God's Space" where he dives into these doable and purposeful actions that spark evangelism in your everyday lives. 

Listening Well

What does it mean to listen well? Why is listening so important? Doug believes that listening is key in both understanding and building trust with someone who might need the word of God. Sometimes we overlook this step. With an intense passion for God and deep knowledge in his word, we sometimes want non-believers to understand us before we begin to understand them. With practical listening, we should seek to understand someone before we decide that it is time they understand us and our beliefs. Building upon this, in Mike's interview with Doug, we learn that how we approach others on our relationship with God is the most important aspect of building a relationship. It all starts with listening! 

The Beauty of Wondering

Wonder. A desire to be curious or to know something. As the verb, wonder might have you reflect back upon children and how they seem to have an endless supply of it. But do we stop wondering? Doug discusses how the beauty of wondering means that you can come right back to missed opportunities. As Christians, we learn that we miss more opportunities than we take. Wondering has the advantage to reclaim some of those opportunities and using it as a tool to continue conversations centered around your faith at work. This also gives us some time to pray to get the best and wisest possible questions or solutions to that opportunity. So, maybe you missed an opportunity recently that you can recall. Can you think of one? We want to challenge you to go back and pray on it, think about it, and maybe come up with your own "wondering question" that can grab that person's attention once again. If you do, let us know in the community, Facebook, or wherever you connect with us!

Links:

God's GPS Website

God's Space - Book

Resource Page

Events and Booking Info

God initiates His work in us. This passage is a great reminder. Mike came across this passage years after he had memorized 1 Corinthians 1:27-29. God gave us our assignment and the freedom to turn Him down. We can choose to tell Him no. Or we can join Him using His wisdom, to become His righteousness, gain His sanctification and experience his redemption. When we join Jesus and live in the assignment He gave us, we experience His joy. Walk with Him today and watch His joy become visible to those around you.