The journey of business and social entrepreneurship is challenging, especially when stakeholder needs – customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and community members – are in active tension. Dayspring Partners was founded with the question: Can we build a redemptive workplace that serves the holistic needs of our community? In Dayspring’s view, there is a better way to do business than prioritizing profit as the ultimate end – an alternative path that honors the processes and outputs of work and the broader ecosystem of relationships we form.
Dayspring Partners – a successful digital consultancy serving clients around the world – believes their Christian commitments can and should be lived out courageously in the marketplace. Join us for an inspiring and practical conversation with Chi-Ming Chien and partners on why Dayspring moved to Bayview/Hunter's Point, one of San Francisco’s most challenging neighborhoods, the partnership with Redeemer Community Church, the missional imagination that led to a school, and what they are learning in loving and serving their neighborhood.
This session is for Christian and socially minded entrepreneurs, community leaders, and those who support them. Participants will gain the following takeaways from attending this session:
- Increased knowledge and imagination for redemptive entrepreneurship.
- A better understanding of how business can positively impact its neighborhoods, creating possibilities for a wide range of community members.
- Greater clarity about the role of business in bringing healing, hope, and imagination for a better world.
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.
