Christian Economic Forum

Advancing God-Inspired
Economic Solutions
to Global Challenges

CEF is a global community of Christian entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders from more than 45 nations. We convene and connect leaders who are building enterprises, deploying capital, and creating real-world solutions in a way that honors God.

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What We Do

Convene. Connect. Collaborate.

Convene

CEF brings leaders together in forums designed for active problem-solving, where everyone contributes. From the Global Event to Regional Summits, Delegation Trips, and Field Visits to Member organizations, each gathering is carefully curated to create the right context for effective collaboration.

Connect

CEF is a global network with deep expertise across industries, regions, and disciplines, with shared values and purpose. CEF facilitates strategic introductions, surfaces opportunities, and accelerates our Members' work by connecting them with the right people at the right time.

Collaborate

CEF creates the context and the high-trust environment where our Members build long-term friendships and collaborate in ways that multiply their collective impact. This is not a network you use; it is a community where lasting relationships lead to meaningful work together.

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Our Focus: God-Inspired
Economic Solutions

CEF Members are entrepreneurs building companies and creating jobs, investors deploying capital, innovators developing new solutions, and problem-solvers working across every sector. We believe that God's economic principles, put into practice, are among the most powerful forces for honoring Him and advancing human flourishing.

These leaders bring Christian values into every dimension of their work: how they build their companies, treat their people, engage their communities, and steward their resources. Their faith doesn't sit alongside their business life. It shapes it.

The Virtuous Cycle

Work, give, save, spend, invest: these are not just financial activities. They are expressions of God's design for how people and communities thrive. CEF Members desire to bring God's heart into every part of this cycle, and through their work, they create the conditions for families, communities, and nations to participate and flourish.

The Virtuous Economic Cycle: Work, Give, Save, Spend, Invest

CEF in Action

Within CEF, collaboration is not theoretical. It is practical, ongoing, and often quiet. Behind the scenes, our Members are constantly strengthening one another's work: investing in each other's companies, opening new markets, sharing strategic counsel, and making trusted introductions that accelerate growth. The community is genuinely better together.

At certain moments, that collective strength becomes visible. When aligned leaders move together around a shared opportunity or critical need, the impact can be significant.

Market-Based Solutions

CEF Members are building great companies, developing thriving ecosystems, and cultivating cultures that advance the virtuous economic cycle. By leveraging their influence, expertise, and resources, their work shapes marketplaces and societies, creating the conditions for people and communities to flourish as God intends.

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Some of the world's most pressing challenges, including food security, poverty, displacement, and many others, require more than one sector to solve. CEF convenes business leaders, policymakers, and solution providers to collaborate across boundaries and address global challenges together.

Strategic Mobilization

When a critical need arises where Members are already deeply engaged, CEF mobilizes. We don't respond to every problem the world presents. We engage where our Members are uniquely positioned to create meaningful impact: bringing resources, relationships, and resolve to bear where they are needed most.

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Snapshots of the CEF Community in Action

So much of what CEF does is quiet, behind-the-scenes work: Members supporting one another, sharing counsel, and strengthening each other's efforts. Here are a few examples of how our community has worked together to accelerate solutions.

CEF members collaborating and strengthening one another's ventures

Strengthening Member Ventures

CEF brings Members together to actively collaborate, strengthen one another's work, share strategic counsel, and make trusted connections that help everyone go further, faster.

CEF Africa Summit gathering of entrepreneurs and investors

Accelerating a Thriving Middle Class in Africa

CEF has convened hundreds of African entrepreneurs and investors with our Members, working together to accelerate the rise of a thriving middle class—the backbone of lasting economic flourishing.

Brick-kiln manufacturing modernization initiative

Supporting Modernization of Brick-Kiln Manufacturing

CEF is working with government and industry leaders in Pakistan to accelerate mechanization in the brick-kiln sector—transforming the economic conditions that sustain bonded labor.

Conservation agriculture and food security initiatives in Africa

Innovative Food Security Solutions

CEF has mobilized training organizations, investors, and government partners across several African nations to expand conservation agriculture—dramatically improving yields while caring for the land.

Conflict-zone-ready baby warmer delivered to Gaza

Getting Help Where It's Needed Most

CEF leveraged strategic connections across government and industry to secure approval and deliver conflict-zone-ready baby warmers into Gaza.

Creating safe employment opportunities for trafficking survivors

Safe Employment for Trafficking Survivors

CEF has assembled a strategy group to develop best practices for employers creating safe, dignified jobs for women rescued from human trafficking.

Our Values and Culture

What makes CEF work is not a program or a platform: it is a culture. CEF holds a unique place: a neutral, global platform where friendship leads to collaboration. We don't manage a fund, promote an agenda, or seek to aggregate power. We create the conditions where people of extraordinary capability, conviction, and shared values connect to build God's Kingdom together.

Our Members operate with an extraordinarily high degree of trust and a long-term relational view. They invest in one another's lives and work, not as a networking strategy but because they share a common calling and genuine care for one another. That culture doesn't happen by accident. It is shaped by a set of values and operating principles that every Member commits to.

Humility

We recognize that everything we have comes from God and seek to build His Kingdom, not our own. We think more highly of others than we do ourselves.

Action Oriented

We're a do tank, not a think tank. Our Members are entrepreneurial problem solvers who operate at the highest levels of effectiveness.

Collaboration

Our Members are characterized by a genuine desire to work alongside others, contributing to someone else's work as readily as they advance their own.

Friendship

Long-term relationships matter more than short-term networking. The friendships built within CEF aren't incidental to our mission. They are the mission.

Non-Promotional

CEF is a solicitation-free environment—no business, investment, or donor development. Trust and genuine connection thrive in a space where collaboration emerges naturally.

Zero Politics

Our Members live under every political system on earth. We focus on faithfulness to God, not political activity, creating unity across the community.

Faith

We believe Jesus is Lord, God's Word is true, and His purposes should guide our lives. Faith shapes both decisions and leadership at every level.

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Membership

CEF is a membership community. Member dues support our work of convening and connecting, allowing us to serve the community in a way that is neutral and sustainable. We are selective: membership is by nomination and application only.

Community

Global meetups, weekly prayer calls, year-round forums, and a real-time WhatsApp network.

Access & Insights

Concierge connections, Member directory, expert calls, insights library, and opportunity digest.

Convening

Global Event, Regional Summits, delegation trips to key regions, and field trips to Member organizations.

This is a contributor culture. Every Member brings something to the table, and we carefully balance our community across sectors, industries, and regions to ensure the diversity of perspective that makes collaboration effective.

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Member Perspective

"I felt at home immediately at CEF. In my church context, people didn't understand my interest in business and the impact it was having, other than my ability to make donations. My business friends didn't understand my interest in ministry and how business could be a platform for good and carrying out God's calling in my life. The CEF Community was instantly people who got all of those things."

Our Story

In 2011, a small group of friends gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to openly discuss some of the world's greatest challenges. Every Delegate voted to do it again the following year, and each asked to bring a guest. From that simple beginning, the Christian Economic Forum has grown into a global community of leaders spanning more than 40 nations—united by a shared conviction that economic action, guided by faith, can transform the world.

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