Ellen White says that at the second coming, some of God’s people will be engaged in business transactions. Join us as we discuss ways business can break down prejudice between the world and Seventh-day Adventists and how God rewards those who take risks for His cause.

ASI 2018: Business Unusual

<p>Ellen White says that at the second coming, some of God’s people will be engaged in business transactions. Join us as we discuss ways business can break down prejudice between the world and Seventh-day Adventists and how God rewards those who take risks for His cause.</p>

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Young Professionals

Mark Finley

History & Mission of ASI

Jason Churchwell

Jesus’ first miracle was making juice!

Sean Wycliffe

Developing a Level 7 Evangelistic Business

Calvin Kim

F5 Challenge – Challenging the Status Quo!

Michelle Doucoumes

Danny Houghton

Denzil McNeilus

Brenda Palmer

Gary Rayner

Michael Tuazon

Panel: Business and Finance for Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs

Business Titans of the Bible:  Lessons for the 21st Century Entrepreneur

GW Chew

Starting a Center of Influence

Nathaniel Justin Khoe

Pick Up Your Phone and Follow Me

Eric Walsh

YP Speaker Panel

Your First Profession

As Kyle said, I work for ADRA now, the Advanced Development and Relief Agency, and I help them with their marketing and development.

And then I'm also on a small team that investigates social enterprise opportunities, business opportunities around the world, places where We can start businesses that generate more private funding.

So we don't have to be so reliant on government funding, cuz we don't know when those streams of income will dry up.

But we wanna continue serving people, the most vulnerable people around the world.

And so if that's your interest and your passion too, come talk to me afterward and we can sit down and discuss those ideas, but that's really what we're interested in at Adra, getting into that space.

But today I've been asked to talk about a venture that I worked on before this in Atlanta, Georgia, which is where I'm from, called Press Together.

And we were brainstorming ideas to reach the city.

There was a big push from the General Conference a few years ago to reach the cities, and it's still going on.

Often in our evangelistic efforts, we go after poor people.

They have an obvious need and we can meet that need.

We thought, well, how can we get into the lives of wealthy and influential people who aren't in our sphere of influence?

I didn't really want to start a restaurant.

That's really expensive, but I can make some killer juice And so we developed some juice flavors in my house and we said hey, we're gonna do a juice bar But before we get into that You guys are all here to talk about business and religion and is that Venice at the end of time?

Are we all going to be unemployed shortly?

You know, should we even be talking about this?

There's a super interesting quote I want to read to you guys in last day events.

And do you remember that parable Jesus tells in Matthew 24, Luke 17?

2 will be sowing in the field, 1 shall be taken to the other left.

2 women will be grinding at the mill, 1 shall be taken to the other left.

And oftentimes we talk, and the disciples are like, where Lord?

And we're like, Is it where are they taken or is it where are they left?

Well, there's a super interesting quote in Last Day Events.

This is what it says, Christ declared that when He comes, some of His waiting people will be engaged in business transactions.

Some people are going to be doing business who are looking for Jesus coming when he comes.

It says some will be sowing in the field, others reaping and gathering in the harvest, and others grinding at the mill.

So I'd encourage you, now is a great time to start a business Some of God's people will be doing business at that time So we decided we're gonna open a juice bar in Atlanta.

So we looked everywhere And it's like thousand square feet in Atlanta 5000 bucks a month and they want you to sign a 3 to 5 month lease.

Kind of expensive to start out of the gate, and we're trying to operate on this lean startup model, right?

Friends and family financing, the best kind.

And so we find this little store, it was a coffee shop, in a high-rise that's just off the strip, Peachtree, if any of you are from Atlanta, Peachtree Street is kind of like the main street, and Buckhead, and Buckhead is like the premier part of Atlanta.

And so we find this high rise that's kind of just off the strip, But there's tenants there like Salesforce, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo.

But the building is only like half full, there's no street parking, it's terrible.

I had to be convinced to go into this spot.

They said, hey, we'll let you come in here for $350 a month, And we'll only make you sign a 6 month lease and you can just go month to month afterward.

So I'm like, we can at least figure out the business model, refine it, start doing some deliveries and things like that.

So I developed 5 flavors of juice just 5.

That's all we had in my kitchen And we we have this grand open we had kind of a soft opening where we started selling it and learning the system of making Juice we have this grand opening and my friend Jared Thurman.

He had a panel yesterday He and I opened this juice bar, So we're there making juice all night.

I think even Jared's mom was there, his wife was there.

And it's kind of slow and we start getting a little bored.

And he and I are back there and we're like, well, we wanna start expanding our line, so maybe we should try some almond milks.

A press is like 2 and a half tons of pressure.

And so we fill this press bag with this almond mush, and we filled the bag wrong.

We filled it from the bottom, and you're supposed to fill it from the middle and fold the ends in and Literally like I'm in my soup bag.

They were trying to make this almond milk So we put it in the press and it starts pressing and because we filled the bag wrong.

It starts shooting out the front Now when I say shooting I'm standing in front of the machine and Brian's right here, it starts spraying us in the face.

Jared's behind me, ringing up a customer right here.

The almond milk hits him in the back of the head and he turns around to see What's going on and it sprays into his eyes and so Jared's like down out of commission like going to the sink to wipe his eyes Well, there's a lady buying juice at the register I'm like 6263.

This was this was a large African-American lady taller than me, standing at the register, and almond milk is just showering down on her.

And she stands there, and she just freezes, and she starts screaming.

So everyone starts grabbing towels and running everywhere, trying to wipe it all up.

And I run around the counter, and I'm giving her towels to wipe herself up, and she's wiping her face, and she stops, and she looks at me, and she says, Do I look like you?

She puts the towels down and goes straight up to the women's restroom.

And this is how it got started, our grand opening at Press Together.

Now I wish I could tell you that was the last bad thing that happened.

Our best-selling juice was this juice it was called gringo.

Gringo is what they call American people down south of the border, right?

It was this citrus based green juice and it had a little jalapeno in it.

Well I don't know if any of you like jalapenos but some jalapenos are super hot, some aren't so hot.

We're like cold pressing jalapenos, right?

Well, I mean, we're making the most premium juice you can buy.

This is organic, 100%, it's cold pressed and it's raw, unpasteurized.

So we press these jalapenos and we're still figuring out the recipes.

I put twice as much in this batch as should have been in there.

So everyone's coming down and we're sampling, sampling, sampling, and now I'm like, you should try this juice.

I mean this was a unique juice, you couldn't get this juice anywhere else.

And people taste it and their face turns red and they start coughing and they're like sputtering and they're like losing their voices.

And I'm like, it's a little jalapeno, a little splash of jalapeno.

Well, what happened was it was the best marketing thing that could have happened to us because they went and told everyone about it.

And it really taught me an important lesson about marketing in life.

And that's that often we want to blend in with everyone else, right?

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Young Professionals

Jesus’ first miracle was making juice!

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