Everyone knows what a venture capitalist is and does. They find promising businesses and invest in them. They've long played a necessary role in a free-market system in which wealth is invested in to create more wealth and prosperity.
In the secular world, success is often measured by wealth, and wealth is toted in terms of dollars and cents.
In is many years as a coach, Don Nava has worked with many venture capitalists, successful business executives, and top corporations, helping them to perform more effectively and fruitfully. Many of his clients were good Christians. But over the years it became apparent to him that something was missing — a gap between striving according to the terms of the secular world and those of laid out in Scripture.
And what's in Scripture made in pretty clear. We're called to a life of fulfilling God's will on Earth as it is in heaven. And the abundant life we're promised isn't one that can be measured in money. It's worth so much more — an eternity in fact.
In prayer, he came to an epiphany. If venture capitalists played a needed role in creating some of the world's most renowned companies, what if there grew to be a community of Kingdom Capitalists who were investing in each other and, by extension, startup ventures with more than the goal of creating more capital. What if the goal was creating more Kingdom?
Starting in the summer of 2016, he began holding meetings to discuss the concept of a Kingdom Capitalist with others. At his first meeting in June, 12 others showed up by invitations. At this second in July, 18 turned out. And so it goes.
Right now, Don and his idea are very much in the formative stage. With others, he's defining what it means to be a Kingdom Capitalist, what's needed, and how the transformative systems he developed as a fitness, life, and Kingdom coach could be applied.
This work is in its very early stages. Like many other new ventures these days, his ministry is taking a iterative, step-by-step "lean startup" approach in an effort to take his inspiration to a sustaining endeavor.
He knows from his experience that lasting and transformative change doesn't occur overnight. It takes a daily effort based on personal accountability to others. So plans are underway to create three-person accountability teams.
In the secular world, success is often measured by wealth, and wealth is toted in terms of dollars and cents.
In is many years as a coach, Don Nava has worked with many venture capitalists, successful business executives, and top corporations, helping them to perform more effectively and fruitfully. Many of his clients were good Christians. But over the years it became apparent to him that something was missing — a gap between striving according to the terms of the secular world and those of laid out in Scripture.
And what's in Scripture made in pretty clear. We're called to a life of fulfilling God's will on Earth as it is in heaven. And the abundant life we're promised isn't one that can be measured in money. It's worth so much more — an eternity in fact.
In prayer, he came to an epiphany. If venture capitalists played a needed role in creating some of the world's most renowned companies, what if there grew to be a community of Kingdom Capitalists who were investing in each other and, by extension, startup ventures with more than the goal of creating more capital. What if the goal was creating more Kingdom?
Starting in the summer of 2016, he began holding meetings to discuss the concept of a Kingdom Capitalist with others. At his first meeting in June, 12 others showed up by invitations. At this second in July, 18 turned out. And so it goes.
Right now, Don and his idea are very much in the formative stage. With others, he's defining what it means to be a Kingdom Capitalist, what's needed, and how the transformative systems he developed as a fitness, life, and Kingdom coach could be applied.
This work is in its very early stages. Like many other new ventures these days, his ministry is taking a iterative, step-by-step "lean startup" approach in an effort to take his inspiration to a sustaining endeavor.
He knows from his experience that lasting and transformative change doesn't occur overnight. It takes a daily effort based on personal accountability to others. So plans are underway to create three-person accountability teams.
