CEO | Apartment Life

Pete Kelly is the CEO of Apartment Life—a growing nationwide ministry helping people see their neighbors as their greatest amenity, while also improving financial return for real estate owners. He joined Apartment Life after spending 24 years working at Cru. During his tenure there, he served as Executive Director of Leadership Development and Executive Director of Fund Development. Over the years Pete has worked with college students at Oklahoma State University and the University of Arkansas. Two years after Hurricane Katrina, he moved his family to New Orleans to work with college students and help with the city’s rebuilding efforts.

Pete graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1991. He and his wife, Chanin, got engaged while serving with Cru in Estonia, and they have two children, Anna Kate and Jack. His hobbies include triathlons, listening to audio books, dating his wife, playing with his kids, and grilling in the backyard

LINKS 

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Apartment Life

• Faith Driven Investor – Real Estate

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Author and filmmaker | VeggieTales

Author and filmmaker Phil Vischer has had a significant impact on American culture.  His groundbreaking children’s series, VeggieTales, has sold more than 65 million copies, been featured in major magazines and newspapers and even spoofed by Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons.  Phil created Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber as a 25 year-old Chicago-based computer animator, searching for ways to integrate his faith and his filmmaking.  With the help of his wife, Lisa, his college buddy Mike Nawrocki, two art school grads and his church’s music director, Kurt Heinecke, Phil landed VeggieTales videos in a third of all American households with young children.

And then, at the peak of Phil’s success, everything turned upside down.  Over-aggressive expansion coupled with a lawsuit from a former distributor forced Phil’s company, Big Idea Productions, into bankruptcy in 2003.  Phil lost his company, his characters, his dream.  What he didn’t lose, though, was his relationship with God.  On the contrary, losing everything showed Phil that God was all he had ever needed in the first place.  Rather than losing hope, Phil found himself with a ministry he never expected – a ministry to anyone who has lost a dream.  Phil detailed the dramatic rise and fall of his dream and the lessons learned in his book, Me, Myself & Bob.

Since the bankruptcy of Big Idea Productions, Phil has produced What’s in the Bible? – a 13-part DVD series walking families all the way through from Genesis to Revelation, explaining the origins, meaning, and some of the “trickier bits” of the world’s most influential book.  Phil is also a frequent radio guest on Family Life Radio, Focus on the Family, Moody Radio and others.

Phil continues to live in the Chicago area with his wife Lisa (aka Junior Asparagus).  They have three adult kids, two dogs, and 2 1/2 acres that Phil likes to mow while thinking creative thoughts …

LINKS 

• Phil Vischer.com

• VeggieTales.com

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President and CEO | FullArmor Corporation

Rich Farrell is President and CEO of FullArmor Corporation, a software security firm that he started with fellow students at Cornell University. FullArmor has a unique business model where they develop the software and license and/or sell it off to large public companies. Over the years, they have done deals with companies including Microsoft, Citrix, Dell (Quest), NetIQ, LogMeIn, F5 Networks, and others. Rich and his partners pray and ask the Lord for guidance and revelation on the products to develop and they have many wonderful stories of His faithfulness over the years.

Rich spent most of his career in Boston but now lives in San Jose with his wife and three children.

Board of Directors, Advantage Data Corp.

Board of Advisor, Park Street School

Member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) for New England (Chapter Chair 2012-2013) and SF Bay Chapter (currently)

LINKS 

• LinkedIn 

This article was originally published here by The Gospel Coalition

— by Mika Edmondson

In Mark 11:15–19, Jesus returns to the temple to cleanse it the day after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Part of the corrupt situation he finds involves race-based systematized injustice. While the religious leaders protected the peace of the inner courts where Jews prayed and worshiped the Lord, they brazenly turned the court of the Gentiles into a noisy smelly livestock exchange and marketplace because of racialized bitterness. Jesus smells the ethnocentrism and the injustice, and it infuriates him.

Everything about the temple was intended to point to the coming Christ. And Jesus knows this ethnocentrism is a complete misrepresentation, a repudiation of the saving purposes of the God who would make his Christ to be a “light to the nations” (Isa. 49). In his zeal, Jesus completely dismantles the livestock exchange, refuses to let anybody pass through, and so restores the court for the Gentiles to pray. Then he exposits Isaiah 56:7: “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?”

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speaker, writer and consultant

Mats Tunehag is speaker, writer and consultant from Sweden and has worked in more than half the countries of the world. For over 20 years he has had a special focus on developing the Business as Mission, BAM, concept as well as national, regional and global strategic alliances of people and BAM initiatives.

In 2002 he initiated and co-led the first global think tank on BAM, which produced the Lausanne Paper on BAM as well as the BAM Manifesto (2004).  In 2011 he and Mrs Jo Plummer developed another much bigger global think tank on Business as Mission with over 30 national, regional and international working groups. Tunehag is the Chairman of BAM Global. See 

Tunehag was also the Convener of the Global Consultation on the Role of Wealth Creation for Holistic Transformation. See 

Tunehag has served for many years as a senior leader on Business as Mission in both the Lausanne Movement and World Evangelical Alliance, and he lectures globally on Business as Mission. 

Tunehag also serves part-time with a global investment fund based on Christian values that helps SMEs to grow in size and holistic impact in the Arab world and Asia, by providing financial, intellectual and human capital.

He served on the Global Council of Advocates International, a global network of 30 000 lawyers in over 120 countries. (2008 – 2014)

Tunehag is the Chairman of the Freedom Business Alliance.

LINKS 

• www.BAMglobal.org  

• Wealth Creation

• Freedom Business Alliance

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author, speaker, and consultant

Matt is an author, speaker, and consultant eager to help you do work that matters, and do it better. More than that, he wants to help you do your work and influence the culture in a gospel-centered way. Matt is the author of What’s Best Next, How to Get Unstuck, and Creating a Business Plan that Actually Works.

He worked for 13 years at Desiring God leading the web department, serving as director of strategy, and helping build the ministry for greater spreading. With an M.Div. from Southern Seminary and experience consulting with churches and organizations, Matt started What’s Best Next to equip Christians theologically and practically through writing and coaching.

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