Jesus Is
My CEO

Christian business owners and entrepreneurs who want their faith to actually govern how they operate — not sit beside it. If you carry decisions nobody else in your life fully understands, and you want peers who will pray about them and then hold you to what you said, you’re the person we built this for.

Ten weeks, one hour a week, in person — part of Church by the Glades’ fall lifegroup semester. Eight of those weeks are the Faith Driven Entrepreneur sessions; the first and last run about thirty minutes longer, for introductions at the start and reflection at the end.

A defined end date is deliberate. You are agreeing to ten weeks, not to something open-ended you have to find a polite way out of.

The Faith Driven Entrepreneur Foundation curriculum — eight sessions taught by Henry Kaestner and J.D. Greear, each paired with a story from a working entrepreneur. The session list is above.

We watch each video together in the room rather than as homework. Nobody has to arrive prepared, and nobody has to pretend they watched it.

No. Solo operators, partners, and owners with teams are all welcome, and we intentionally keep industries varied — a directory full of the same trade helps nobody. What matters is that you own or lead the business and can speak to its decisions.

We set our own ground rules in week one, but four come with the curriculum and we keep them:

• Show up to at least 80% of the sessions. Community doesn’t survive inconsistency.
• Confidentiality, and the vulnerability that earns. What is said here stays here.
• Respect for different theological traditions. We come from various church backgrounds and look for Gospel unity across them.
• Group time stays on the study and each other. Business development happens outside the hour.

There’s no form here on purpose. Registration runs through Church by the Glades with the rest of the fall lifegroups, and the facilitators add members personally so the group stays a room of people who actually know each other.

Two ways to start: sign up through Church by the Glades and ask for the Jesus Is My CEO group, or reach out to Kelly or Alex directly using the details below. Expect a real conversation before the first session — that’s the point.

There’s no cost to join — no dues, nothing to buy to be part of the group. If that ever changes, you’ll hear it directly from a facilitator before it affects you, never as a surprise.

Members are listed in the directory with their business, category, and a short description. When a need comes up, we look to members first and make a direct introduction.

What we don’t do is spend the session on it. Group time is for the study and for each other — the referrals happen in the week, in the group thread, or over coffee afterwards. There are no required referral counts, no lead fees, and no obligation to hire another member. A referral here is a personal endorsement, so we’d rather you pass along five you’d stake your name on than fifty you wouldn’t.

The relationships are meant to outlast the study, and the directory doesn’t expire when the semester does. In the final session we talk about what comes next as a group — whether to keep meeting, and who is ready to facilitate the next cohort.

That last part is built into the curriculum on purpose: the people it works on are expected to go and lead it for someone else.

Come and see. Most people arrive unsure — either they think their business is too small to be worth discussing or too complicated to bring into a faith conversation. Neither has been true yet. Reach out and we’ll talk about whether this is the right table for you.