Dan Foust Jr. interviews Christian businessman Jay Peters at the Ministry to Men luncheon.

Jay goes into his biography, where he grew up in Ohio and how he found God.

When he was four when he and his brother attended Awana

His dad was a businessman turned missionary and the whole family moved to Columbia, South America. Parents taught the Bible and converted native Columbians via bible translations and linguistics on the Amazon River.

Growing up in Columbia was difficult because he is an introvert.

Talked about the dangers of the Amazon, natives, tribal warfare, animals, cocaine drug runner. Fear dictated his childhood.

Parents moved him when he was 17 years old. He did not fit into the Midwest. For two years he was a hippie living under a bridge here in the United States. Took all kinds of odd jobs to survive.

Hitch hiked from the Dakotas to Chicago and lived with some missionary kids, attended a Christian college fell in love, broke up, met and married his wife and then went to work for Chik-A-Filet. Founder, Truett Cathy, took him under his wing and then he started a business at 21.

Called Truett for advice and Cathy told him to stick it out for 1-more year. He told him to adopt the Chik-A-Filet philosophy and his business began to grow. Made $2,900 the first year but by the second year following Truett’s advice and the next year cleared $500,000.

Then, he started building churches in Africa. Fell in love with it. His childhood fear motivated him to continually move forward. Fear trained him in a way most people are not wired. He realized he was good at solving problems not knowing that was a skill. Problem solving became his trade and helped him build his career, life, and missionary focus.

He was always attracted to difficult situations. God was prodding and poking him to areas where there was a storm that went with it.

He then realized that he could not do this all on his own, he wasn’t qualified, and through mistakes. God does not call the qualifies, He qualifies the unqualified.So, you need to seek out mentors.

Every time God led him into something difficult, he took care of him. God always blessed him and it became easier to say “yes” to move him forward towards what God wanted him to do.

The more difficult the task God gave him, the easier it got as time moved on.

Then, Jay started to describe the process of those who have the fear to move forward. Every season of his life, God provided a man to mentor and to hold him accountable. When you start to do things for the kingdom, Satan attacks you even harder because he hates us working for God. When you begin working and stretching for the Lord, God responds and helps you.

He then advises you to take on the difficulty, get out of your comfort zone. Staying us in our comfort zone, nothing good happens. Why he thrives on difficulty; sure it stems from his childhood. And, so God made him worry free. He never worries about anything.

Satisfaction in his life because he is doing his part for the Lord. For the rest of his life, he is throwing hail Mary passes and he really doesn’t care if he loses everything because he gets to spend eternity with God.

Jat talked about How he started a new business and nonprofit based upon Micro finance, a small element in the U.S. tax code to fund his missionary mission teaching third world women how to start a business. These businesses help these women support their children. His success there in Africa, got the attention of the Kenyan government and so they wanted him to partner with them.

Now he works closely with the President of Kenya and Tanzania governments to help feed the poor and to develop their natural resources. Micro finance has enabled him to take disciple making to a whole new level. Then, he goes into details…..as to how he got into a goldmining during Covid as a dramatic example of how God can use you in mighty ways..

Then, Jay wraps up talking about his next project as he gets into farming…

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