Corporate Missionary
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Corporate Missionary engages you with important and big questions regarding the Great Commission and your work life. The book weaves together stories of the authors career and how she began to overcome doubt, fear and pride to share the gospel with her colleagues and how you can too.
Kiana Wheeler
Kiana Wheeler is a wife, businesswomen and a Corporate Missionary. She has held leadership roles at PepsiCo – Southeast Region Marketing, Brand Marketing for Darden Restaurants and led multi-platform media strategy at NBC Sports Group – The Golf Channel.
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Corporate Missionary - Kiana Wheeler
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Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Implementing God’s Expectations
Chapter 2: God’s Purpose Over Your Planned Agenda
Chapter 3: Resolving Conflict According To God’s Instruction
Chapter 4: Engaging Your Colleagues
Chapter 5: Treasure in The Workplace
Introduction
In the spring of 2017, my husband and I traveled to go on a mission trip. As we were flying back home, I heard God whisper the idea for this book. At the moment, I thought that writing a book sounded like a great adventure and a cool idea. But doubt quickly set in as we landed in our hometown. I became scared of what other people would think if I started writing a book and pursuing the dreams that God gave me.
Fast forward a few months later and I barely wanted to write the book. I allowed the enemy to distract me with the thoughts I mentioned earlier. Even though I knowingly disobeyed God and hadn’t started writing the book, I felt as though my career was headed in the right direction as I accepted a new position. However, two weeks after starting the new job, I was rushed to the hospital. I couldn’t feel the right side of my face and my right arm went numb. I was shocked to be there and had no preexisting conditions to put me there either. The last time I was in the hospital was when I was being born. But God spoke and ensured I would be 100% healed. I decided to trust him instead of worry. This is where I wrote the first outline of the book, in the hospital bed. In addition to writing the book, I used the time in the hospital to pray for loved ones, nurses, doctors and anyone who came to mind. I even held bible studies with some of the women I was discipling. It was a refreshing time for me and my faith grew tremendously. After 21 days in the hospital I was miraculously healed. My doctors were amazed and called my case a medical mystery.
I’ve lived most of my Christian life on the sidelines choosing to watch those I saw called to ministry, minister to the lost and pursue their God-given calling. Don’t get me wrong I eagerly desire to see the lost come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I never thought I could be effective just by sharing my experience with Jesus. Well that was a complete lie from the devil and I bought into his strategic marketing campaign for years. It’s like he was using my personal data to push a tailored message of you can’t do it
everywhere I looked.
As I think back, during college I worked full-time and this is where I began to buy into the call of sharing the gospel with my colleagues. Even though I struggled with self-doubt about how effective I would be. Nevertheless God opened my heart for the people around me who didn’t have a relationship with him. This passion to share the gospel was a direct result of God giving me a fresh start through my confession of faith in Jesus. I looked at that as my opportunity to live a redeemed life and seek after Him with all my heart, mind and soul. As I worked full-time in college I started to see the fruit from building a foundation on God not my career aspirations.
God taught me how to listen to my colleagues and to respect where they were spiritually, as a believer or nonbeliever. He taught me how to build authentic relationships, getting to know them as best as possible. I began to develop a mind to pray on their behalf whether for their salvation, to strengthen their walk with Christ, for a sick child, you name it. To this day, God is still calling me to pursue his purpose at work.
The goal of this book is for you to walk away equipped and empowered to reach your colleagues for God. I’m so thankful God asked me to share what my journey has been becoming a Corporate Missionary. The stories that I share are my personal testimonies of how God used me at work. Be encouraged as you read because God has something for you to learn and he wants to use you too.
May God open your eyes to see those who are lost around you and may