Episode Details

What if your business could become a platform for God’s Kingdom?

For this Christian entrepreneur in Iraq, business began as a way to reclaim his time, care for his family, and rebuild his relationship with the Lord. After leaving a demanding career, he started providing compliance services to nonprofit organizations. What began as freelance work soon became an opportunity to support ministries, serve humanitarian organizations, create jobs, and develop leaders.

His story challenges the idea that business and missions belong in separate worlds. Through consulting, leadership training, and plans for employment-focused businesses, he has discovered how profit can serve a greater purpose. But business as mission requires more than good intentions. It takes genuine profitability, operational excellence, and a healthy workplace culture.

At the heart of his work is a commitment to equipping others. Through experiential learning, coaching, and intentional delegation, he helps leaders grow in practical skills, servant leadership, and confidence.

His vision extends beyond business to the future of the church in Iraq. Despite seeing friends and family leave amid ongoing challenges, he remains committed to strengthening local churches and pursuing unity among Christian leaders.

The result is a compelling picture of business as mission: a way to serve communities, empower people, and advance God's Kingdom through faithful work in everyday life.

Key Takeaways

• Missions can happen through ordinary work, hobbies, businesses, and relationships rather than only through traditional mission trips.
• Long-term discipleship often begins with someone ahead of us who is willing to invest in our lives.
• Jason’s decision to start Tin Soldiers was shaped by a willingness to step into uncertainty rather than wait until everything made sense.
• A workplace can become a place of gospel community when people are welcomed, known, discipled, and given space to encounter Jesus.
• The Bible study at Tin Soldiers grew organically from a small gathering into a larger community and eventually into satellite men's groups.
• Jason repeatedly emphasizes the importance of pointing people toward the local church rather than allowing a ministry gathering to become a substitute for the Church.
• Loving people where you already are may be the simplest and most faithful place to begin living out the Great Commission.

Chapter Markers

00:00 — Welcome to Season Three: Can You Do That in Missions?

01:36 — What Is Tin Soldiers Race Cars?

05:15 — From Motocross to Ministry

08:43 — The Men Who Discipled Jason

10:39 — When the Plan Fell Apart

12:54 — The Dream of the Cliff and the Water

16:15 — Taking the Jump

19:46 — Why Race Cars Became a Mission Field

21:09 — Jesus the Carpenter and the Workplace

22:59 — A Bible Study in the Race Shop

24:47 — From Small Group to a Growing Community

28:20 — Bound for Glory and Satellite Groups

30:39 — What Happens When Men Encounter Jesus?

34:49 — Start Where You Are

36:16 — A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

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