DREAM FORUM | Round 3 (Hybrid)

NOVEMBER IS DREAMER MONTH!

For the past six months, our twelve Dreamers have been guided on a journey of slowing down to discern God’s voice calling new things forth, provided with practical resources and connections, and supported by individual guidance from our Cultivation Committee.

Now it’s time to bring YOUR skills, connections, and resources into this communal process of dream cultivation and play your part in taking up the calling we’ve received—a calling to reimagine and remake our world with love.

We’re extending this year’s Dream Forum across three nights, highlighting four Dreamers each week, to create more space for honoring these incredible Dreamers and nurturing generative connections. Together, in Spirit-led community, we can cultivate new vision to help bring beauty, justice, and restoration to our world.

Join us for our final Dream Forum round online AND in-person in NYC and let’s dream together!

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*If you’re planning to join us in-person in midtown Manhattan, consider coming early for our monthly After-Work! Details here…

ROUND 3 (NOV 16, 7:30p EST)

Daniel Chun (NYC) | Reimagining Real Estate

From hosting friends in your home to having a meeting place for worship, I believe real estate is the lifeblood of human growth and community. Real estate can be leveraged in many ways and my dream is to help individuals and organizations reimagine the role it can play in their lives. At its essence, developing a property is a value creation process that nets profit in both the short and longterm. What I see God wanting to do is to point this value-creation machine towards purpose-driven endeavors that both make a profit (though maybe less) AND have kingdom purpose in terms of how real estate is developed and used.

Read about Dan’s experience #InsidetheDreamPod, Learning to Follow.

Grace Swee (NYC) | Eradicating Homelessness as Communal Endeavor

I dream of a city where homelessness is a thing of the past, where poverty is eradicated, and where human beings aren’t struggling to survive but dream. I hope to form a core group of believers from different churches who have the heart to address homelessness and poverty in the city. I see this group (of friends) as a coalition of representatives to unite churches in NYC towards greater compassion, and long-term solutions. It would also function as an outpost to gather and disseminate collective resources within the body.

Read about Grace’s experience #InsidetheDreamPod, Dreaming with God.

Carney R. Burns Jr. (New Rochelle, NY) | Professional Sales Training for Marginalized Communities

Having raised a family of five children (four college graduates so far) over a 30-year career as a sales professional, I have experienced the power of a career in professional business-to-business sales. In my volunteer activities in prison re-entry ministries, I encountered people with the innate talent to be successful salespeople, but they were unaware of the career path to seize the opportunity. This discrepancy led me to start Faith Professional Sales Institute (FPSI) to train marginalized populations in the principles of professional selling as a way to develop successful, family-building careers.

Read about Carney’s experience #InsidetheDreamPod, Waiting for the Ripening.

Ellen Choi (Queens, NY) | Dignifying Workplaces & Producing Plant-Based Food

The conception of my dream began with a question: how can survivors of complex trauma be affirmed and dignified in everyday life? By bringing human-centric design and trauma-informed practices to industrial workplaces, I aim to create manufacturing plants that take good care of people and the environment. To that end, I hope to found a product line of plant-based food and become a Certified B-Corp. My vision is to begin in South Korea to establish an economically and geographically logical anchor, then expand to emerging markets and underserved communities in the Asia-Pacific region.