Mike Valleskey was struggling to understand how his job at Sears fit into his new life of faith. Valleskey hadn’t been asked to perform unethically or kept at work so late he lost touch with his family. But he couldn’t see how a disciple of Jesus Christ could work 9 to 5 inside an office with such a large mission field outside.
"I contemplated going back to Bible school," Valleskey tells CT. But before making the jump, he looked at his sphere of influence—his wife and four children, no surprise there, but the next one blew him away. "The workplace," says Valleskey, who now leads a Christian fellowship at Sears with 150 members. "I was around 5,000 people, every day, 40-plus hours [a week]."