Good News - August 2019

www.goodnewsfl.org 15 AUGUST 2019 OUT AND ABOUT Christian Workplaces Institute honored eighty- nine organizations, churches, and Christian-led businesses as "Certified Best Christian Workplaces" from January-June 2019. Of the 89 new honorees based primarily in the U.S. and Canada, three are from South Florida: 4KIDS of South Florida, Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale and Calvary Christian Academy. Two additional employers in Florida in- cluded Celebration Baptist Kinderschool, in Tallahas- see, and St. Matthew's House, in Naples. Since 2002, more than 300,000 employees from 1,000 organizations, churches and Christian-led businesses have com- pleted BCWI's Employee Engagement Survey. This online instrument provides an objective, quantifiable measure of a flourishing workplace culture based on eight factors: fantastic teams, life-giving work, out- standing talent, uplifting growth, rewarding compen- sation, inspirational leader- ship, sustainable strategy and healthy communica- tion. “Our work is important to Jesus,” said Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Pastor Doug Sauder. “He is the one who gave us our mission to make disciples and to care of the “least of these,” and He is worthy of our best effort. But who we are is even more important than what we do. The cul- ture of our ministries should create an aroma of wisdom, passion and grace that will attract the watching world to Jesus.” BCWI President, Al Lopus, said "Each new Certified Best Christian Workplace has created a healthy-to-flourishing work- place culture where people love coming to work, get more done and fulfill their organization's distinctive mission to further God's work on earth. It's all about improving the employee ex- perience, what Inc. maga- zine calls, 'the sum of all interactions an employee has with their employer. . . and how the employee per- ceives the company (orga- nization) overall and their role in it.'" For a complete list of certified employers, visit bcwinstitute.org . 4KIDS and Calvary Chapel Named Among Best Christian Work- places in the Country