Lives are transformed when people go on mission trips and people come back with a different mindset and view of their part in this world. But many people are not able to go because of time or money constraints.

Mike Henry Sr. has creatively overcome that obstacle by asking the question, “What would it look like if a person from another country came to my workplace on a mission trip?”

Mike has created a format where you can go on a mission trip without ever leaving your home. We are to be lights in this world wherever we are, and Market Place Mission Trips is the perfect avenue to get you started.

Join us today as we unpack how you can go on a mission trip without ever leaving your home and be an ambassador for Jesus in your workplace.

Redeem Your Business Today by the Following:

How can we honor God in our business?

Whatever you do, do it like you are doing it for God, not yourself.

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Clock into work daily with Jesus with the daily prayer, “Here I am, send me.” He'll put you to work.

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• Pray – Be more intentional in praying for your co-workers 
• Appreciate Others – How you can show appreciation for your co-workers
• Know What You Believe – Able to answer in 1-2 sentences why you do what you do
• Serve Others – Be intentional to find small ways to serve others
• Speak for Yourself – Not telling others how to live but telling them why you live and do the things you do

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David:

[0:00] Welcome, my friends. I'm excited to have with me Mike Sr. here from Follower of One. We all know that going on a mission trip can change a person's perspective for the rest of their life. However, with time commitments and costs, many people are not able to get off work and to go on a mission trip. But Mike has created a way so that people can go on a mission trip and not even take time off of work. I won't say any more. I'll let Mike explain this incredible opportunity. So welcome, Mike, to Redeeming Business Today. Thanks for coming and sharing some of your limited time with us.

Mike:

[0:32] Hey David, thanks for having me.

David:

[0:36] Yeah. So, a question I'd like to ask some of my guests is, what is one tangible way that we can honor God in our business?

Mike:

[0:50] Well, I think it applies to our whole life. If we just do it like we're doing it for him, I want to, you know, I want to make him the boss of everything that I do. The minute I realized that my boss wasn't my boss, Jesus was my boss, it changed everything.

David:

[1:09] Okay, very good. Thank you very much. And so, Follower of One, I'm not sure how long that's been going on, but take a few minutes and explain this journey you're on and where you are today.

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David:

[2:31] OK, well, that sounds interesting, but most of us probably don't realize what would that look like? How would that work? I'm going on a mission trip, but I'm going to work. So, could you explain a little bit how that format works and what people do on this mission trip?

Mike:

[2:45] Certainly. So, I figured out if somebody came to my office who was on an overseas mission trip from their nation? They would be doing a job similar to mine. They'd be right next to me, maybe in the cube next to me, and they'd be doing the same job I'm doing it, but they're trying to build relationships with people, maybe for the purpose of sharing about the Lord with them. Well, what if I started just living that way in my own daily job? We wrote 10 devotionals. We have a two-week devotional, and we do this together as a cohort, and we can do it from all over the globe because we're not going anywhere different. And what we would do on a mission trip is we would spend each day interacting with the people that we meet, looking for opportunities to expand that relationship. And then in the evenings, we would get together, talk about what happened and pray. And so, we have our evening debriefs on Zoom or Teams or whatever. We use virtual meetings for that.

David:

[3:51] Okay.

Mike:

[3:52] And we've been doing 45 of these. I think 46 and 47 are going on right now. We do them with people all over the globe, or we also now do them, we let churches do them. We help churches do these. Just like a church would go to a particular mission field every year, they build a relationship and go there every year. We also challenge them to also do the marketplace and invite everyone else in our congregation to do it once a year. And we have about eight churches so far that are partnering with us on that.

David:

[4:26] All right. Very cool. Very neat. So, what do they do when they go to work? Like you have this devotional, do you give them like challenges or things to do everyday kind of thing?

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David:

[6:06] Yes. Very good. I like, I like that. That last one speak for yourself because I have, I've also learned that we are a witness. We are light. And as I say, I'm not going to say, hey, what has God done for you? But if I go to somebody and say, hey, this is what God has done for me. This is how he's answering my prayer. That's your testimony in a nutshell of, hey, this is what God's done for me. And then they start thinking, it's like, huh, if He did that for you, maybe He could do something for me. And that's that witness. And so, yeah, speak for yourself. It's very cool.

David:

[6:40] So are there any, what kind of qualifications are needed to get on a trip like this?

Mike:

[6:47] So you join our community. If we go to work and we pray for our co-workers, we’re on a mission trip, so I don't really charge people for this. We actually ask people to pay it forward so that other people can do it. You can go to followerofone.org and go to Marketplace Mission Trips, which is one of the take action items and request an invitation to our next trip. You will get sent a little link to join our online community and it will put you on the next Marketplace Mission Trip.

Mike:

[7:20] We do the mission trips six times a year as Follower of One so that people can experience this and start thinking, well, how can I get other people to do this? And then we ask people at the end of it to consider paying it forward so that other people can do it. Our long-term goal is to have a group of people in this online community who have all done this. We're all trying to live our faith every day, but then we're connected by occupation or by industry, or maybe we all connect in a city, or we even have subgroups for some other organizations that have partnered with us so that we're in there helping each other live our faith every day, because it's a heavy load to get our pastors to help all of us with all our different occupations, living our faith. And so why not get the engineers to help the engineers and get the salespeople to help the salespeople and the first responders to help the first responders, because it's different living out our faith with every kind of job.

David:

[8:23] That's a good vision there about people joining up together. Very good. So, do you have any stories of one or two stories of how people have what people have done during these mission trips?

Mike:

[8:39] Yeah, actually, we have several. We had one of the very early mission trips. We had a person who got confronted by a co-worker in a meeting at work. So, there she's in a staff meeting on like Tuesday of the week of the mission trip. And her project was confronted in a pretty hostile way by a peer and this staff meeting. And because she was on the marketplace mission trip, she chose not to respond sharply. She said, normally I would have responded in such a way that no one else would have had anything else to say. And things would have been tense for a couple of days and it would have just settled down. But instead, I just said, OK, thanks. I appreciate that. Later that day, she was in the company gym for a yoga class, and she was the only person in there. And in walked the other lady that had started this tense conversation in the staff meeting. And she said the two of them had a much warmer conversation than we would have had I done my normal thing. So, it's those kinds of things where God just changes the temperature of our workplace.

Mike:

[9:51] We've had people who have given gifts to people, and they've said, why are you doing this? And we've had a couple of people who have interacted with folks who have come to the Lord. But most of what typically happens is there's this softening. People who are not Christians, especially in a post-Christian world.

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