From Jack Fallaw, CEO Founder:
My journey in life is filled with all kinds of experiences, some good and some bad. I became a Christian at the age of ten kneeling beside a chair with my mom explaining to me how to be saved. That secured my eternal destiny with God. I lived with that security over the coming childhood and teenage years while being a child and teenager at the same time. I guess you could say that I was a good kid, even during the teenage high school and college years. It was when I reached my twenties as a young married and business man that I began to stray in my commitment to keep my focus on God. I knew from my early teenage years working for my dad that I wanted to be a homebuilder and developer. Things started out well, but as the success came, my emphasis in life was chasing more and more success. I lived with one foot in the world and one foot in the Kingdom. Since I was a right footed man, my right foot was in the world and I drug my Kingdom left foot along just to keep walking.

When I was thirty-one years old, I went to see an old lady family friend to try and convince her to sell me her fifty acres. Well, after sitting on her porch for two hours with my best sells techniques, I was nowhere in the deal. All this time, she had been talking to me about my relationship with the Lord. Not exactly what I wanted to see happen that day. I left her porch that afternoon promising her I would do what she asked, but never really intending to give it a second thought. I just wanted her land. But God had a different plan. That conversation would not leave my mind. Two weeks later, I talked with my wife about the situation and she, being the rock in the family, walked with me down the aisle of our church as I re-committed my life to God.

I never bought Mrs. Howard’s land. That was not the purpose of the visit from God’s perspective. He used her to set me on a course that changed my life. With a new perspective on life, I was on fire for the Lord. There was a different purpose in my life and God began to use me and our company in some miraculous ways. People in our office came to know the Lord and our salespeople were winning their customers to the Lord. Every family that we built a house for received a Bible with the statement that as best as we could, we could not build a perfect house, but God could build a perfect home. God was doing some mighty things in my life and my business.

It was only a couple of years later while sitting at my desk that God placed in my mind the question of what does the Bible have to say about business?  A few weeks later, I received a brochure about a conference being led by Howard Hendrix on leadership and planning in business from God’s perspective. After attending this conference, God led me to organize a conference in our home town centered around these same ideas. The recession of 1980 and some personal trials distracted me from the vision and plan God had given me. It was the hardest time in my life. Satan was using everything he could to keep from pursuing this God given passion of representing him in the marketplace. But, here again, God intervened in another miraculous way. In still another time at my desk, God placed in my mind that there had to be a way for churches to use good sound business principles in the way they conducted the affairs of the church. I never discussed this with anyone. But on an October morning in 1983, I received a call from my best friend who was pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC. His call was to ask me if I would consider closing down my business and come be the Business Administrator for the church. It was one of those God moments. Although I had never discussed those previous thoughts with him, I knew he was sent by God. The steps that happened after that were nothing but the hand of God. Without public notice of my situation, we received a call from someone wanting to know if we would sell our house – our dream house in the country. Another call came in by someone wanting to know if I would sell the lots I had just developed in a new subdivision. The list goes on.

We moved our family to Charlotte and I began a new career, one I had no idea about what it entailed, but just trusted God that He would keep leading. While at the church, the thoughts of God in the marketplace never left my mind, After two years with the church and in another miraculous way, God led me back into the marketplace as a home-builder and developer in Charlotte.  That new beginning led me to some friends who introduced me to an organization called Fellowship of Companies For Christ. I had hit pay dirt. That organization gave me the opportunity to learn about Biblical principles in business and a chance to share those principles with other men in small groups.

After twenty-one years of leading small groups and practicing my business, God led me to another time at my desk. This time God brought the idea of a ministry to men in the marketplace and the home. Our family had experienced divorce through one of our daughters and seeing what that can do to a good woman and some terrific kids, gave me a passion to reach men in their journey as a husband and father. Sitting at my desk, I wrote down the initials CEO. My thought was that every man should be the CEO in his business and family to lead them in the ways of God. Thus CEO Ministry, (Chief Evangelism Officer), was born. My journey now is to use the business activities God brings to keep me going, and to use this platform to help men in their journey in the marketplace and the home.