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Griffin, the salon owner, says the business was her calling. "The Lord just kept putting in my heart that this is what I needed to do," she says. Still, when she first opened her salon in 2000, she shied from identifying the business as Christian. "It's risky because we're a small community," she says. "You might turn people off if they think, At that salon, they're going to preach Jesus to me." In recent years, as her clientele solidified and evangelical Christians gained prominence nationwide, she grew bolder. She had Scripture stenciled on the walls and named...
Christian entrepreneurs feel confident that their time has come. "In these days the Lord is trying to wake up people, and I think he's raising more people that are Christians in businesses," says Griffin. "He's given Christians favor because they do listen to him." Philip DeLizio, a real estate broker in Glen Burnie, Md., felt the time was right to join a network of Christian real estate agents: "Ever since 9/11, I think America as a whole has become maybe a little more religious or spiritual. I'm not going to say that was the reason we went...
...faith. She does, however, reserve the right to proselytize among members. "If I feel so moved, I will absolutely share the Gospel with them and encourage them to convert," says Trammell. She says she waits for the right moment and asks, "If something were to happen and the Lord took your life, are you 100% sure you would go to heaven?" She proudly recalls converting one woman in the sauna, two on the machines and another in her office during a weight-loss consultation...
...stylist stopped showing up at work. "She said Jesus was staring down at her, and she didn't like it," Griffin says. At Integrity Bank, Skow says, "we do not discriminate," adding that "we have hired probably a handful of people who had a weak following with the Lord. Through osmosis in our organization, however, they are now strong believers, and that's a fact...
...Lonely Vigil, a book about Coastwatchers in the Solomons, historian Walter Lord describes how men - from plantation managers to accountants, gold miners to publicans - secreted themselves in the jungle and on mountaintops to keep an eye on virtually every move the Japanese made along the strategic waterway known as "The Slot," between Bougainville and Guadalcanal. Using long-range teleradios, the Coastwatchers were able to intercept Japanese communications and pass on real-time intelligence about supply runs, troop movements and air raids. As well, working with indigenous people like Gasa, the Coast-watchers charted shorelines, prepared landing beaches, provided guides through...