Chris King, others, mentor young men in entrepreneurship

Chris King and four other businessmen are teaching young men how to be entrepreneurs in a Biblical way.

“The goal is to have a young man come alongside five older men for three years and learn to think, act, work, worship, and enjoy family life like his mentor,” says Chris, who founded Business Mentorship Program Southeast.

“Our goal is to try to train them to think like a Christian entrepreneur, applying a Christian worldview to business, family, worship, everything you do. It shouldn’t be a dichotomy where we do business like slimeballs and go worship on the Lord’s Day. It’s all one integrated curriculum called life.”

Interns in the program spend time with four of the mentors for six months, then run a business with the fifth mentor for a year.

“We set him up with something, have investors lined up, let him run with it, make mistakes,” Chris says. “Hopefully, it will be profitable. If it’s not, so be it. Hopefully, he can learn from that.”

The program has its second intern right now. The first had to put his program on hold to get married. A third will start this fall.

Chris says the program is “organized enough to keep it functional, but it’s flexible enough to adapt it to each young man and situation.”

Michael Miller