In our world, where many mistrust institutions, including churches and businesses, what types of partnerships might begin to reverse this trend? In 2012, Dayspring Partners and Redeemer Community Church moved in together in one of San Francisco's most challenging neighborhoods. Their shared vision was and remains to love and serve the community together. They say, "To love a place, you must know it. To know a place, you need to learn it."
Dayspring Partners – a successful digital consultancy serving clients worldwide – believes their Christian commitments can and should be lived out courageously in the marketplace.
Redeemer Community Church – a multi-ethnic, multi-generational congregation rooted in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco – seeks to bear faithful witness to the kingdom of God.
Two initiatives have emerged from this unification:
1. The Neighbor Fund, which extends loans to local businesses in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
2. Rise University Preparatory School, a high-quality neighborhood middle and high school, aimed at erasing some of the educational inequities in the city.
Join us for an inspiring and practical conversation with leaders of these organizations as they share their common commitment to serving one of San Francisco’s most challenging yet promising neighborhoods and what they are learning about God's faithfulness and provision.
This session is for clergy, community, and business leaders who seek thriving partnerships, neighborhoods, and cities.
Participants will gain the following takeaways from attending this session:
- Increased knowledge and imagination for church-civic-business partnerships.
- A better understanding of how businesses and churches working together can positively impact their neighborhoods, creating possibilities for a wide range of community members.
- Practical next steps for how businesses and churches working in partnership can increase the community's spiritual, economic, and educational well-being.
To learn more about Dayspring answering a call to purposeful reconciliation, watch this Faith & Co. video.
DAYSPRING, REDEEMER, and RISE PREP TEAM:
CHI-MING CHIEN lives, works, and worships in San Francisco’s ethnically and socioeconomically diverse Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood. He is a member of Redeemer Community Church, where he leads worship and has served as an elder. He co-founded Dayspring Partners, a digital consultancy envisioned as an experiment in Christian business. His wife Juliette serves as founding Head of School for Rise Prep, a low-tuition, independent Christian school in Bayview. They have two daughters in college and one senior at Rise.
TIM CAHILL is a co-founder and Vice Principal at Rise Prep, where he and his wife, Chloe, have witnessed God's faithfulness over the last eight years. Tim taught for eight years in Christian schools in Pacifica, CA, and in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Tim and Chloe are natives of San Francisco and felt the Spirit call them back from Ghana to be missional in their home city. They have grown to love the Bayview and moved into the neighborhood with their two young kids to be fully invested in the work that God is doing.
VICTOR HO was co-founder & CEO of Fivestars, a FinTech startup focused on helping small businesses that emerged from God’s call to “business as a mission field." Fivestars was acquired by SumUp for $317M in 2021. Before that, Victor worked at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. Victor has been a member of Redeemer for three years along with his wife and two young children, serves on the board of Rise, and is a big fan of co-housing.
ANDREW LEE is a software engineer at Dayspring Partners and serves on the leadership team. He enjoys working with youth, creative writing, and contemplating faith-related topics. He lives with his wife in Los Altos, California, and attends Palo Alto Vineyard Church in Silicon Valley.
KAREN YEE, captivated by a congregation living out their faith, chose to remain in San Francisco after studying at the UCSF School of Dentistry. An original member of Redeemer Community Church, she now serves as an Elder. Her faith affinities include a love of worship and music, owning a Christian business, and serving on various boards. She and her husband, Jon, find much joy in raising two teens.
AMY MAR oversees finance and operations for Dayspring Partners, where she has served for the last 20 years. She enjoys nurturing relationships with neighbors and serving the Redeemer, Rise Prep, and Dayspring ecology with concrete care ranging from complex accounting to IT operations to facility needs. She and her husband raised three sons and love all things high school sports and SF Giants.
