Men of Faith Mission:
Create opportunities for fellowship and fun, spiritual growth and sharing the gospel message for men of our community by initiating and supporting programs that demonstrate Christian values.
Activities:
- Men’s Fellowship Breakfast – two or three per year with programs/speakers that focus on Christian messages
- Encourage assistance to existing and new church and community programs – work to provide Resources and volunteers for various existing programs and functions, new endeavors, care giving, special focus projects, etc.
- Recreational events– typically with spouses to honor a church-based a ministry/service organization
Organization:
- Ecumenical with community-wide membership and activities.
- Officers – Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer.
- A Steering Committee oversees all functions and activities.
- Sub-Committees are formed as needed for specific activities and events.
For information or to volunteer please contact:
- Kyle Womack, womky12522att.net
Men of Faith Breakfast to Feature “The Informant” On April 20, 2023
The Men of Faith organization will hold a community-wide breakfast on Thursday, April 20, at The Church at Horseshoe Bay Fellowship Hall. Mark Whitacre will be the featured speaker on the topic “When Good Leaders Lose Their Way.” The men’s fellowship will begin at 7:30 a.m. with coffee and breakfast being served, and the program will start at 8:00 a.m. and end about 9:00 a.m. All men from the area are invited to attend.
Mark Whitacre is an Ivy League PhD and is considered by the FBI as the highest-ranked executive of any Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower in U.S. history. He was responsible for uncovering the ADM price-fixing scandal in the early 1990s. However, Mark makes it clear that it was actually his wife Ginger, now married for 43 years, that forced him to expose the ADM case to the FBI.
Mark Whitacre has been actively engaged in the Faith at Work (Business as Mission) Movement the past two decades, and he is currently the Executive Director of t-factor at Coca-Cola Consolidated where the company is actively integrating faith in their workplace to be a purpose-driven organization.
Mark’s undercover work with the FBI, while in his early 30s, during the ADM price-fixing scandal was the inspiration for the 2009 major motion picture, “The Informant,” starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, and the 2010 Investigation Discovery Channel documentary that was initiated by the FBI titled, “Undercover.” The book, “Mark Whitacre Against all Odds“, describes the rest of the story about how faith has molded Mark’s life the past 25 years since the ADM scandal. Mark’s story is mostly about how God transformed his life, and about redemption and second chances. It is an inspirational story about a family surviving against all odds.
Mark earned his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in biochemistry (1983) and then worked for several Fortune 500 companies before landing at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). Mark was hired at ADM when he was 32 years old as the president of the BioProducts Division – he was the youngest divisional president in the history of the company. Mark quickly became Corporate Vice President of the company and was in line to be the next COO of ADM prior to ADM learning that he was an informant for the FBI.
Today, the four FBI agents involved with Whitacre’s case tout him publicly as a “national hero” for his substantial assistance with one of the most important white-collar cases in history. Douglas Burris, chief of U.S. Federal Probation in the Eastern District of Missouri, has stated publicly, “The story about Mark Whitacre’s redemption and second chance is one of the most inspirational stories of our time.”
The Men of Faith is ecumenical with community-wide membership and activities. Its mission is to create opportunities for fellowship and fun, spiritual growth, and sharing the gospel message for men of the Highland Lakes community by initiating and supporting programs that demonstrate Christian values. The group encourages assistance to existing and new church and community programs and works to provide resources and volunteers for various existing programs and functions, new endeavors, care giving, and special focus projects. Tickets for the men’s breakfast are $20.00.