Dave works as a developer who builds homes and sometimes entire neighborhoods.  Dave began to discover his calling as a workplace ambassador.  It soon became clear to him that every building project provides him with the unique opportunity to be a pastor to hundreds of people who work for him or with him – carpenters, plumbers, electricians, architects, engineers  and real estate agents, even city officials with whom he has to interface. 

He decided that every time he and his partner buy a parcel of land and hire contractors and subcontractors, he will consider them part of his congregation of “lost sheep.”  He will speak peace over them when they submit their bids.  He will fellowship with them while they work for him.  He will pray for God’s to work in their lives as he becomes aware of their needs, and as God begins to answer those prayers, he will share how much God cares for them and wants to have a personal relationship with them.

Furthermore, Dave will prayer drive and prayer walk the developments, blessing first the vacant lots and then the houses as they go up, praying for the safety of the  workers and praying for God to bring the right people to live in them.  He will also pray for Christians to move in and have an impact in the neighborhood around them.  All of sudden what to Dave used to be a secular job has become a ministry simply because he decided to fulfill his calling as a pastor to the marketplace

(Adapted from Anointed for business.)