Controlling Motion With What’s in Your Hand!

There’s a fellow named David. He’s an engineer. He also happens to be the founder and CEO of a company that makes products to control motion. They employee, oh, I would guess, about 150 people. David’s a very humble guy with a really big faith and a great love for Christ. But, he also believes that absolutely everything belongs to God; so all he’s really doing in life is trying to be a good steward (caretaker) of God’s business – which, in this case, is called US Digital. In 2006 this company purchased and renovated a new facility. Interestingly, the facility actually came with 17,000 square feet more than what they needed.

So, if you were this guy and the engineering and manufacturing business you were taking care of for God had 17,000 square feet of unused space, what would you do with it? Well, for David, he was inspired by a simple question in the Bible, “What is that in your hand?” (Exodus 4:2) He looked at his hand and said, “Well, God, you’ve given me extra unused building space!”

Out of the creativity and love God had placed in his heart, he gathered a team around him and developed a very simple idea: Design the space and use it to provide the infrastructure for a variety of small Christ-centered ministries that complement each other. They constructed 30 some offices that they provide free to these ministries. US Digital allows them the freedom to operate independently to fulfill their purposes.

Because of God’s ownership and David’s stewardship of this manufacturing site, they produce an amazing high-tech product that helps control motion in a variety of creative ways. They also do a fantastic job of caring about their employees through good nutrition, a gym, an exercise coach, even massages, and easy access to such services as dry-cleaning, hair salon, and a coffee shop.

But, through these free offices, they also participate in the movement and motions of God’s activity in other ways as well through: adoption services; arts and education; compassionate ministries – like rescuing minor children from sex trafficking, violence and abuse. (BTW, do you realize that we have over 150,000 children being traded here in the United States – especially at some of our major truck stops along the interstate?) They provide marriage and divorce recovery support, outreach and witnessing, leadership training; mission work; networking; prayer; radio broadcasting; suicide prevention…well, you get the idea!

Do you? Do you get the idea?  If so, “What is that in your hand?”

For more information on US Digital, go to: http://www.usdigital.com/outreach

Tags: business and outreach, business partnerships, Faith and Work, God at Work, US Digital