Clare De Graaf is a follower of Jesus, an elder, a Bible teacher, and for more than thirty years a full-time spiritual mentor of men, from college students to other would-be servant/leaders. A successful businessman and Christian all his life, at age thirty-one he found himself at a spiritual crossroads – a crisis of faith triggered by cancer. Surrendering himself to Christ, he sold his manufacturing company in 1984, at age thirty-five, to devote the balance of his life serving wherever God called.
Since then, De Graaf has been deeply involved in US and international church planting, microeconomic development in Haiti, and orphanage and hospital reconstruction in Albania. He is also the founding chairman of DOOR International, a ministry committed to translating the Bible into sign language for the Deaf of the world. In 2013, Clare’s book, The 10 Second Rule was published by Simon and Schuster (Howard Books).
Clare and his wife, Susan life in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are the parents of six children and proud grandparents of twenty.
Read Clare’s blog, buy his book, interact with him and learn more about his ministry at www.ClareDeGraaf.com. Also find him on Facebook at facebook.com/The10SecondRule.
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Red Letter Business brings real, inspirational stories of men who are making an eternal impact on the lives of the people they work with, their neighbors, and families. Each episode will challenge you to think and act in a more intentional way, and experience first-hand how doing business in a Biblical way is just better business in the long run.
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