2024 Quarterly Prayer Breakfast

Guest Speaker Pastor Mike Bennett, C12 Chair since 2016

Bio: Mike’s experience spans multiple continents and organizations.  Mike and wife (Dawn) spent 8 years serving as missionaries in Rome, Italy and New Delhi, India.  Prior to that, Mike spent 20+ years in the telecommunications business starting in the infancy of wireless development and continuing to the full development of the industry.  He has been involved in various startup businesses and was responsible for sales, marketing, site building and customer service in different organizations.  As COO of a telecommunications company, he managed a revenue stream of over 500 million dollars.  In addition, Mike has operated personal businesses in the US and India.  Mike fully understands that any success in business and life is a gracious gift from God and produces a heart and life of thanksgiving. Mike has spent a great deal of his adult life mentoring others in business and Christian living.  He has been involved in various positions in churches.  He and his wife have taught parenting classes and mentored young couples, a passion God has fueled in them.  He is excited to see how God uses his years in business and ministry to help business owners and others in the marketplace reach their full God- given mission. Mike has been married to Dawn for 30 years. They have three godly sons and two wonderful grandsons.

About C12: 

Each day, business leaders face challenges, opportunities, and decisions with significant downstream impact. This considerable responsibility may cause them to feel lonely at the top. The weight can be immense, but so is the reward—particularly in pursuit of honoring God by how they run their companies. Eliminating the daylight between our faith and work requires diligence.

For three decades, C12’s singular focus has been to create a framework that compels and equips Christian business leaders to achieve excellence through the power of peers.

C12 helps CEOs and executives calibrate the entirety of their businesses through its signature 5-Point Alignment Matrix: continually evaluating and aligning growth strategies, financial stewardship, cultural development, and operations. Our rigorous, interactive curriculum empowers C12 members to dive headfirst into the challenges and opportunities of today’s marketplace.

The C12 experience is different because every C12 member views their business as a platform from which they can produce a Kingdom impact in the marketplace—a platform we refer to as a Business as a Ministry (BaaM).

C12 is designed with a perpetual discipline of assessment, planning, calibration, and coordinated action.

Together, companies rise to market leading levels of employee engagement and performance, customer satisfaction, operational fitness, financial well-being, and cultural vibrancy—and unleash uncommon eternal impact.