Leading can be lonely. It doesn't have to be.

Written by Jarrell Flowers & The Rise Movement

Leadership can be a lonely road.

Especially as a CEO, when you know that everyday there will be decisions that must be made.

Decisions with so many variables at play. Knowing that there are lives on the other side of the decisions that we make and the risks that we take can be stressful. But we still have to lead the way.

And there is Jesus and His call for me to uphold my Christian witness, as I work diligently to eliminate the daylight between my faith and my business.

I want to work to eliminate the stereotype that says, "if it's Christian it must be low quality." Christians answering the call to excellence should be the norm and not the anomaly.

But I need someone that gets me. Someone who's got my back when the world's systems seem hostile. When they say money talks but I just want to be fluent in Gospel.

When I am doing my best to make a heavenly kingdom tangible and relatable. When I am trying to figure out what the cross and the resurrection have to do with my accounts-payable.

I need a community that reminds me that getting results is not an option. And the need for godliness in the workplace is not debatable. And this is what connected us to C12, because when the pressure is on and the stakes are high, we need a community that reminds us of a real Jesus and real life and in real time.

A community that reminds us that real faith will always results in action. And that every business transaction is also a kingdom interaction.

We need a place where are questions can be answered and our answers questioned, because we all need accountability.

A healthy environment of peers that uphold the truth with love and humility.

When we joined C12 we gained access to market leaders in the trenches. Growth strategies for business, and coaching, and economic growth and hardships. But we also gained access to a global community of missionpreneurs that provide for us a support system of spiritual partnership.

This is who we are. More than a group of individuals. A spiritual family leveraging our businesses as ministry for the glory of God and good of humanity.

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