About the Founder
Freddy Davis, Executive Director
The founder and President of MarketFaith Ministries is Freddy Davis. Freddy grew up in a Christian family in Tallahassee, Florida, and was very active in his church from his youngest years. He came to know the Lord at age sixteen and felt God’s calling into full time Christian ministry at age seventeen. In 1974 he graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Communications.
Following graduation from the university, Freddy married his pastor’s daughter, Deborah. After a two year stint in the workforce while she finished her undergraduate degree, they moved to Ft. Worth, TX to attend seminary. Upon completion of his masters degree, Freddy returned to Tallahassee and served for two years as a church pastor.
While serving as a pastor in Tallahassee, Freddy felt the Lord’s calling to go into international mission work. He and Deborah were appointed by the Southern Baptist International Mission Board and moved to Japan where they served for nearly twelve years. During this period, Freddy also took the opportunity to further his academic education by completing his Doctor of Ministry Degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
While serving in Japan, the Iron Curtain fell. With that, he and Deborah felt God’s leading to transfer to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia, where they served with the mission board for an additional five years.
Following that, Freddy sensed the Lord’s leading to return to the states and began serving as a bi-vocational church planter where he was involved in starting two new churches. To help support himself during that time, he started TSM Enterprises, and began writing and speaking. The work with TSM Enterprises opened new doors, as well as provided a new vision for ministry. God has used the experiences of being in the secular marketplace to help him more fully understand the needs of Christians who are struggling to be faithful servants of God in that arena, and to nudge him to provide a solution for that need. MarketFaith Ministries was born from that experience.
Freddy currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife Deborah. They have one son Ken. In addition to the work of MarketFaith Ministries, Freddy serves as the pastor of First Baptist Church Woodville, Florida.
Our Mission
It is the purpose of MarketFaith Ministries to challenge, teach and encourage Christians to clearly understand and faithfully live out the Christian faith in the marketplace.
We work to accomplish this purpose by producing materials and providing training opportunities which teach about worldview and its practical implications for Christian life and witness.
Our Statement of Faith
WHAT IS OUR ULTIMATE AUTHORITY?
The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is the ultimate revelation of God to mankind. In it, God reveals the objective truth about who he is, who mankind is, his purposes and desires for the world and how human beings are able to know him in a personal relationship.
WHO IS GOD?
God is an objective person who is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. He is perfect in every way and is especially characterized by his holiness, his righteousness and his love. He has eternally existed, and reveals himself to mankind in three distinct personalities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three manifestations are co-equal expressions of one God.
WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING?
Human individuals are beings who have been created in the image of God for the very purpose of living in relationship with him. Although every person has tremendous potential for good, we are tarnished by our human nature which is disobedient toward God. This sinful nature generates sinful acts and the end result is separation from God.
HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE SALVATION?
Salvation is the process that God has provided for mankind to end the separation that exists because of the sin problem. This separation is a spiritual problem which exists as an objective reality in this life and continues on throughout eternity if it is not remedied before physical death. God provided for this process through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. To receive this salvation, an individual must personally acknowledge his or her responsibility for the sin problem, decide to turn from that disobedience, ask God’s forgiveness and offer his or her life to him based on the work of Christ on the cross. God honors a person’s sincere repentance and request by adopting the individual into his family to live for eternity in his presence.
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