Oct
24
Join us on Thursday, November 10 at 7pm for an evening with with the leaders of Red Dot Buildings. Ray Sanders and Tod Bush will share a powerful story of a company dedicated to transformation.
About Red Dot
Founded in 1963 Texas-based Red Dot Buildings designs, manufacturers, and constructs pre-engineered and structural steel buildings. With a workforce of over 150 and annual revenues of $30-40 million, Red Dot serves the U.S. and overseas markets.
About Ray
Ray Sanders is President and CEO of Red Dot Buildings, Inc. In addition to leading Red Dot Buildings, Sanders is an enthusiastic world traveler with a passion for transformation. He regularly leads teams of professionals on life-impacting experiences throughout the world through GiANT Experiences, a non-profit organization he founded with a vision for mobilizing purpose-driven leaders with a desire to use their influence to impact the world for good through sustainable life-changing solutions. GiANT Experiences is a member of the GiANT family of companies, including GiANT Impact, GiANT Partners and GiANT Capital. The goal of GiANT is to grow leaders and companies in order that their profits might be used for a purpose.
Sanders serves on the Business Advisory Board for Compassion International and Oklahoma Baptist University. Additionally, he serves as an advisor to the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the Communications Advisory Committee for the Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma and serves on the Board of Directors for a U.S.A. inspirational film company, Sherwood Pictures and Red Dot Buildings International. Nothing thrills him more than spending time with the love of his life, his wife, Stephanie. Together they have six children.
About Tod
Tod Bush serves as Chief Impact Officer for Red Dot Buildings in Athens, Texas as well as Director of Red Dot 100X. Red Dot 100X is an initiative designed to steward Red Dot’s employees and company profits in a manner that glorifies the Lord through local ministry opportunities and international mission work, primarily orphan care. Prior to joining Red Dot in 2007, Tod had a 14-year career as an assistant DA for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office, including 10 years as a prosecutor representing Child Protective Services in child welfare cases.
Tod received a BBA from Baylor University in 1989 and a JD from Baylor Law School in 1992. He and his wife, Robyn, have been married for 20 years and have 3 children.
Apr
9
Join us for a dinner with Dave Evans,
Adjunct Lecturer, Product Design Program at Stanford
Management Consultant and formerly co-founder of Electronic Arts.
Is work really a ministry? No. It’s three ministries - but most Christians never get beyond a partial engagement of only one of them. Come find out about which ministries of work you might be missing and what promises God has made to be with you in them, right where you are today.
About Dave
From saving the seals to solving the energy crisis, from imagining mice to redefining software - Dave’s been on a mission, including helping others to find theirs. Starting at Stanford with dreams of following Jacques Cousteau as a marine biologist, Dave realized (a bit late) that he was lousy at it and shifted to mechanical engineering with an eye on the energy problem. After four years in alternative energy in the late 70’s, it was clear that the idea’s time hadn’t come yet. So while en route to biomedical engineering, Dave accepted an invitation to work for Apple, where he led the mouse team and introduced laser printing to the masses. When Dave’s boss at Apple left to start Electronic Arts, Dave joined him and became EA’s first VP of Talent, dedicated to making “software worthy of the minds that use it.”
After 15 years as a tech exec, including two more “real jobs” in telecommunications, Dave decided his real mission was to help others find and pursue theirs.. So he went out on his own working with start-up executive teams, some large corporate clients, but also with countless young adults. They were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life and why?” Helping people get traction on that question continues to be Dave’s real work, which he finds is most enjoyable and effectively done in the university setting.
Dave taught a course for seven years at UC Berkeley entitled How to Find Your Vocation and is presently a Lecturer in the Stanford Program in Design, where he co-conceived and teaches The Designer’s Voice and is developing more courses for undergraduate and graduate students.
Dave holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary. He and his wife Claudia live on the water in Santa Cruz and have 5 adult children, including 3 Stanford grads.
Agenda
7:00-7:30pm - Fellowship
7:30-8:35pm - Dave’s talk, dinner, and Q&A
8:50-9:45pm - Fellowship
Registration
Space is limited. Registration will close when we reach our capacity limit or at 7pm on 4/25 (whichever comes first).
Cost: $32
Dinner includes a three course buffet dinner with a vegetarian option.
Oct
6
Longing for Significance
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Join us for a dinner with Ken Churchill, SVP of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
Longing for Significance
Ken’s desire to make an impact led him to Africa and then to Menlo Park. Along the way Ken learned that much of his passion camouflaged his fear of insignificance. Ken will share how diverse experiences have taught him about living fully as God’s child and offer his advice to young professionals who long to make the most of their gifts and opportunities.
About Ken:
From 1975 until 1987, Ken worked in Asia, the U.S., and Europe on refugee resettlement and public health administration with Food for the Hungry, World Relief, and World Vision. He came to Silicon Valley in 1987 from Africa with his wife of three years, Shirley, and the oldest of their eight start-ups (four boys and four girls). Today Ken helps many of the tech industry’s most successful CEOs and entrepreneurs manage their money. His focus is to become like Jesus and thus bring God glory in all he does.
Ken graduated from Wheaton College in in 1981 with a Bachelor’s in Biblical Studies. Ken also studied Mandarin Chinese at Harvard and Philosophy of Religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the University of Rhode Island.
Jul
24
Grasping God’s Power
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Learning to hear God better has enabled Steve to set higher goals. Steve will describe lessons from his journey and how God is enabling Water Of Life to impact thousands of people in developing countries.
Steve Yencho, Founder / CEO Water of Life
Water of Life, LLC is the third company founded by Steve Yencho. Water Of Life develops and markets low cost safe drinking water purification systems for the poorest of the poor using breakthrough technology. Water Of Life systems are currently providing safe water for thousands of people in villages worldwide. Prior to Water of Life Steve was the Founder and CEO of Cardica, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRDC), the world leader of implanted surgical connectors for coronary artery bypass graft surgeries. Steve was the Assistant Director at the Stanford University Rapid Prototyping Laboratory and co-founder of Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ:OMER). He has held a variety of technical and management positions with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Caterpillar Tractor Company, and the Institute of Defense Analyses.
Steve holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University. In addition, he was sponsored by a Hewlett Packard Fellowship in the Ph.D program in Precision Machinery Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He earned his Doctorate in Material Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He is the inventor of over 50 issued United States patents.
He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Pacific Justice Institute. He co-led the Science and Faith Seminar Series at Stanford University from 1997-2001. He resides in Menlo Park, CA and attends Calvary Church in Los Gatos
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