Business & Ministry Conference 2025
Bridging Faith & Business: Meaningful Connections for Kingdom Impact
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
at the Jeffersonian, 10617 Taylorsville Rd.
The Business & Ministry Conference is a premier one-day event designed to unite Christian professionals and business owners for meaningful connections and strategic collaboration. This conference provides a powerful platform where visionary leaders can gain wisdom, share expertise, and explore innovative ways to integrate faith and enterprise for greater Kingdom impact.
Attendees will engage with like-minded professionals and receive valuable insights from experienced leaders while discovering new opportunities to leverage their resources and talents for a purpose-driven mission. Whether you’re a business leader seeking to align your company with biblical principles or looking for strategic partnerships within the faith community, this event will equip and inspire you to maximize your influence for the glory of God.
Become a part of the movement that is reshaping the future of faith-driven leadership.
Keynote Speaker: Chuck Proudfit
Chuck Proudfit began following Christ in 1997. He was seeking practical ways to live out Christian faith at work, and quickly discovered just how hard it is.
Applying his research background from Harvard University, Chuck spent several years studying how Christians live out faith at work, and how scripture speaks to our experiences. He uncovered a consistent set of spiritual struggles faced by all working Christians, and a compelling set of spiritual solutions drawn straight from God’s word.
These insights formed the framework for At Work on Purpose, launched in 2003. Its community now includes over 12,000 working Christians across Greater Cincinnati, and it has become one of the nation’s leading prototypes for citywide workplace ministry.
9:00 a.m. – Partner prayer and networking
The Connection Advantage: Building Meaningful Workplace Relationships,
AI & Faith: Navigating Innovation with Integrity
11:00 a.m. – Breakout Session 2
Faith, Freedom and Fairness: Navigating legal freedoms and boundaries for Christian business leaders.
Work as Worship: Bringing Purpose to Your Profession
12:00 p.m. – Lunch
12:30 p.m. – Panel Perspectives: Q&A with our Speakers
1:30 p.m. – Networking & Next Steps: Building Bridges Before We Go
2:30 p.m. – Conference Closing: The conference ends, and your mission begins!
Meet our breakout speakers:
Clint Elliott
Faith, Freedom and Fairness: Navigating legal freedoms and boundaries for Christian business leaders.
Clint serves as in-house legal counsel and as chaplain for Encompass Design, Develop & Construct in La Grange, Kentucky. Clint also serves as an allied Alliance Defending Freedom attorney helping businesses and individuals understand their legal freedoms and empowering Christians to live out their faith in the marketplace. Clint’s efforts have contributed to several new laws in Kentucky that protect Christians in the workplace. In addition to a law degree and graduate degree in theology and urban ministry, Clint recently received a PhD in leadership based upon his research related to faith in the workplace.
Chris Page
AI & Faith: Navigating Innovation with Integrity
Chris is an entrepreneur and technology leader with over 20 years of experience guiding innovation, software product development, and technology adoption. After founding and leading MaximumASP, a pioneering application hosting company, Chris transitioned to the Director of IT and acting CIO at Southeast Christian Church from 2007 to 2017. In 2018, he launched a new venture focused on intelligent trading platforms, ultimately leading its evolution from traditional machine learning to cutting-edge generative AI.
Chris is passionate about empowering organizations to leverage AI’s remarkable capabilities while maintaining integrity, prioritizing human value, and reflecting core values. His passion is helping leaders navigate the promise and responsibility of AI-driven innovation with wisdom and purpose.
Lee Webb
The Connection Advantage: Building Meaningful Workplace Relationships
Lee has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry and leads the team at Alton Webb Commercial Real Estate. Specializing in all facets of commercial real estate, Lee holds the CCIM designation. He is a graduate from the University of Kentucky and remains very active in communities throughout the Commonwealth and has
served on various boards as a director. Lee was the planting / lead pastor of Christ Community Church which launched in 2009. Lee loves to coach and mentor church planters and entrepreneurs. From 2020 to 2024, Lee served as the director of church planting for Southland Christian Church and initiated a movement to plant numerous churches across Kentucky. In 2016, Lee authored and
published the book, Go Outside and followed with his second book, Now Then in 2022. Lee and his wife Rachel live in Shelbyville, KY with their three kids: Walker, Warren, and Wells.
Jon Sweetland
Work as Worship: Bringing Purpose to Your Profession
Jon draws on three decades of experience in beginning, developing and leading a small business in Southern Indiana. The potential impact businesses have in their local markets ranges beyond balance sheets and profit statements. Sweetland Ltd is a small waste hauling & recycling company serving 30,000 households with 50 employees. Jon is guided in his leadership with a passion for being who Jesus has called him to be – to encourage others to investigate His claims and follow Him. Being in business is the forum God has given him to accomplish this.
This calling is about being radical in patience, kindness, honesty, forgiving and asking to be forgiven, the exercise of mercy and the promotion of peace. All the while building relationships of mutual respect and favor.
Jon also has been serving as the preaching minister at Scottsville Christian Church in Floyds Knobs, Indiana for the past three years.
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