The Meetup Challenge is a 30-day kit that turns one coffee table into a place where your faith and your business finally sit in the same room — six chairs, one honest conversation at a time.
No experience needed. No curriculum to write. Just a table, six chairs, and 30 days.
Lead founders, freelancers, business-owners, and pioneers in your own network as you find the path to living out your faith in the marketplace, together. (Want to do this with your church? Fill out the form to the right->)
Entrepreneurs Get Your KitOne in five people in your congregation carry this quietly. The full kit is free for churches, because activating that hidden population — not selling to it — is the entire mission of Founder's Table.
Get the Free Church KitWhen you complete the form, you’ll get instant access to the digital kit.
The complete playbook: how to signal welcome, find your first 10, run the 60-minute table format, and what to avoid.
5 copies of ready-to-use devotionals and talking points across six themes that will sustain a year of gatherings.
A printed table tent so people can find you in a busy coffee shop.
Church screen slide, eFlyer, and a 30–60 second reel script, all written for you.
We'll help you build your Facebook group, set up your recurring event, and make you the moderator — plus open office hours.
Every amazing experience has an epic T-shirt.
Two are better than one… if either of them falls down, one can help the other up… though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
“Entrepreneurs are a movemental force. What they need first is not a curriculum — it's a community. Build the table, and the movement will come.”
Every day follows the same short rhythm: 5 minutes reading a devotional written for you, 3 minutes on a reflection prompt, 5–10 minutes taking one specific action.
Set up your group, load the church slide, share the eFlyer, and send five personal invitations. Once that checklist is submitted, your 30 days begin as soon as you're ready.
Your first gathering, then personal follow-up with everyone who came.
Prayer enters the group, and the conversation stays alive online between tables.
Five stretch invitations to leaders you admire but don't know well, and a third gathering to welcome them into.
A fourth gathering centered on testimony, a deeper conversation with the one or two ready to go further, and your Day 30 report.
No set start date, no waiting for a cohort — your 30 days start the moment your Foundation checklist is done.
This was exactly what I needed to stave off the loneliness that comes with entrepreneurship, the confusion of the intersection of faith and profit, and the honor in following God in this way.
My business is teaching me how to be a Christian.
I've been through a lot of these kinds of cohorts, and I've never been in one that made Kingdom things so practical and transformative.
You'll take the first real step toward telling entrepreneurs that your fellowship is a place where they are seen and valued. You don't have to be an expert in business to have an important conversation with someone who is.
You'll lead the conversation your peers need to have: how their gifts, their talents, and their business can honor God. You don't have to have your own faith fully figured out to invite someone to the table.
Don't do it alone. Look for three people from the start — an entrepreneur with credibility others will follow, someone with pastoral instincts who can hold space well, and someone organized enough to keep it consistent. Distribute ownership from day one.
Not a networking group — business connections are a welcome byproduct, never the draw.
Not a replacement for church — the goal is always to anchor people more deeply to their local congregation.
Not outreach in disguise — entrepreneurs can sense when they're being recruited.
Not a Bible study — one big question, one scripture concept, sixty minutes, prayer at the end.
in cash and resources, awarded to churches ready to activate the entrepreneurs already in their community.
Grant funds are provided through Capacity to Serve, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and partner donors. Completing the Challenge qualifies your church to apply; it is not a guarantee of award.
Why the Challenge comes first: the grant funds a program, and a program needs a community to land in.
Thirty days of gathering proves the community is there — and makes the next step something people are already waiting for.
Churches are where entrepreneurs can anchor their lives to the family of God. Entrepreneurs need the church just as much as churches need entrepreneurial ideas. We are committed to always providing free resources to the church. So, we allow entrepreneurs to fund their local church if they choose. Or, we encourage pastoral teams to access free resources. Either way, the mission and movement grow.
Everything listed above: the printed Gathering Guide, 5 copies of Conversations with Entrepreneurs Vol. 1, a table tent, social graphics and sample copy, live setup support, and a T-shirt — the digital kit lands in your inbox same-day, the printed materials ship separately.
No. Meetups can be registered church small groups, or informal gatherings led by an entrepreneur who wants to help their church engage this group. A meetup is connected to your church because you are.
That's a strong start. Launch with six who are genuinely engaged rather than waiting on twenty who are mildly interested. A table where everyone shows up and the conversation goes deep will grow faster than a room where most people feel anonymous.
Under 15 minutes a day, plus one hour for the gathering itself.
Public meetups make room for discipleship at any stage of someone's journey to Jesus. Meeting at a local coffee shop, coworking space, or casual lunch-spot is a great way to get into the community. Later, our Table Study is designed to be hosted within your actual church location, and serves to take people more deeply into what the Bible has to say about their business.
Yes. Keep the language accessible from the start. Spiritually curious entrepreneurs are welcome at this table, and the culture of the group — honest, warm, non-transactional — will do more than any explicit pitch.
Reach out to your Founder's Table contact at any point. Setup, social media, your first gathering, anything in between.
Every gathering is a statement that entrepreneurs belong here. Drop your info and we'll email you the guide and everything else in the digital kit right away — printed materials and the shirt ship separately.
No cost to churches. No curriculum to write. No staff line item. Just a table, six chairs, and thirty days.