Small Business Samaritans Featured Friday
Next Meeting: August 5, 2022 - 8am Friday
SBS Featured Friday meetings are hosted by Phillip Saxton. Mr. Saxton says, “Business owners need an organization that is dedicated to their success. It is absolutely necessary for business owners to grow, be encouraged and interact with fellow business owners to discuss ideas and challenges of day to day operations.”
SBS Featured Friday is a small business networking group that meets each Friday at 8am. We started our meetings in Dacula, GA and after several years, moved to The 1818 Club in Duluth Georgia. Because of the current COVID-19 crisis, we started having Zoom meetings. Later in 2021, along with our Zoom meetings, we will have in person gatherings.
Over the years, hundreds of business owners have benefited from attending our weekly one hour meetings. Our meetings are free. To receive an invite to attend, complete the ‘contact us’ form and include your email address.
Hundreds of business owners have benefited greatly from regular attendance and participation in SBS FF.
SBS FF Value
The value of Small Business Samaritans Featured Friday is to provide a mental space & platform for business owners to come together, discuss business issues, fellowship, network and to take on the responsibility to pray and encourage our fellow business associates. In each of our meetings, we think hard about how each business person can be enhanced & helped. We encourage participants to join in on our weekly mission to enhance the lives of others and dedicate ourselves to their business success.
Agenda
- Opening Prayer & Breakfast (For our Zoom Meetings – Feel free to have your coffee)
- Teaching/Sharing Moment: Each meeting is about growing and learning business concepts
- Featured Presentation – ‘Moulding The Marketplace to Work For Us!’
- Each attendee share: Networking
- Announcements
- Closing Prayer
Invitation
We encourage participants to invite others to attend and join in on our weekly mission to enhance the lives of others and dedicate ourselves to their business success.
You may use these meetings to invite a potential client or friend to participate and enjoy our meetings. Use this meeting as part of your marketing program.
Attendance is FREE.
We network, share common interests; learn business principles and provide a platform for people to share how God has impacted their lives and businesses.
SBS FF 2022 Theme: ‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. We operate on Faith. We follow our calling’.
Business people are called
The meetings are denominationally inclusive and politically neutral and geared to business people sharing their faith in Jesus Christ and how that works in the marketplace. You do not have to be a Christian to attend, we just want people to know that we use Christian principles in business discussions. We believe that all business entrepreneurs are called by God to provide goods and services to our community. Businesses are to provide economic support and jobs for people living in the community. You do not have to be a Christian or even believe in God to start and operate a business. God uses all of us in the accomplishment of his purposes.
Many of our meetings feature a personal testimony. Join business owners and managers for our expanded teaching & fellowship events.
We expect to continue to have Zoom meetings well into 2022 because of the convenience and protection from COVID. We will plan on having in person fellowships and meetings during 2022. These in-person meetings will be announced.
Weekly Prayer
Dear God, we ask you to bless us in our efforts to mould the marketplace to work better for us, as small business owners using principles that we have learned from you. We know that when we do that as in using the ‘fruits of the spirit’ that these concepts and ideas go forward with power generating results that cannot be deterred. We turn to you Father to generate results for us that fill our revenue baskets with overflowing. Amen.
Weekly Scripture
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” Romans 9:21
Weekly Quote
“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.” – Aldous Huxley
Weekly Teaching Moment
2022 will be a year of accomplishment. Our ‘Samaritans of Greatness’ will share how they will meet their calling as business people serving customers & our community.
Phillip Saxton – ‘Moulding The Marketplace To Work For Us!’
The marketplace belongs to us. We are the business owners, the entrepreneurs and the business operators that provide goods and services to our communities.
I use the word spelling ‘Moulding’ rather than ‘Molding’ because for our purposes it is a better spelling, as used in other English speaking countries. Our goal and established intent is to mould the marketplace into one that works better for small businesses in general and those that participate in SBS Featured Fridays in specific.
Our interest is not simply framing something but rather changing it like a potter does with clay. Our objective is to make a masterpiece that works for small businesses to generate greater success, joy, happiness and service to our communities. To do this we must bring in others to help. These others are members of our community, our families, our customers and our business partners.
As we mould the marketplace, we do it to bring honour to God and others. Again, we are using an old English spelling of ‘honor’. To add the ‘u’ in the spelling allows us to seek greater reverence to the idea and to the effort needed to accomplish the idea.
This means that we must use tools and efforts that are not only full-proof but powerful. In this weeks meeting, we will begin to understand how to accomplish this tremendous goal.
