A New Chapter Begins
#01Documenting the journey starting an Advent Venture Studio
This is a post that, if I am being honest, I almost gave up hope that I would get to write.
Let me explain... most people who knew me in a previous chapter knew me as an entrepreneur, someone who lived in the world of strategy, startups, and scaling. But for the last seven years, God took me into a very different season. A season of quiet. A season of unlearning. A season of study so deep and consuming that it overturned how I saw the world and my role in it.
During these years I became a full-time theology student, pouring thousands of hours into study and prayer, and I learned countless lessons as a teacher running a leadership school here in Romania. Over this period, I watched the world shift around me, and while I could still spot opportunities everywhere, I knew that if I chased them, I would lose the calling God placed on my life. So I let them pass. One after another. Year after year.
While I passed up on worldly wealth, in that time God gave me spiritual treasures I never could have expected... patterns in prophecy and history, a clearer view of the Three Angels' Messages, frameworks for True Education, reflections on pattern matching time, the great court case, the sea of glass, the hidden book. My studies culminated in over 20,000 slides, hundreds of courses, and more epiphanies than I can count. It was my "study to show yourself approved" era, and I am grateful for every moment of it because I now stand settled, grounded, and at peace with what I believe.
This has allowed something to change... the burden He placed on me is no longer theory, but action. While my personal calling is found in Revelation 7; 14:12; 15:2, my new professional calling is rooted in Revelation 14:8 and 18:4... "Babylon is fallen... come out of her, My people."
Most can sense that the world's systems are collapsing around them, just as prophecy warned. Christ is calling His people out, but for many, the question is how. Stepping out requires a path, not just a warning.
God has been showing me how to do just this. Pattern match what He showed me to be used by others. Further, He has impressed me to build tools and training programs not just for my outpost, but for others to thrive as well. Tools to help people step out of broken systems. Tools and training that provide footing for souls searching for faith and direction. Establishing systems that allow intentional communities to function as lights in darkening times, fostering the kind of community we will need most in the days ahead.
For years I carried this burden and I prayed for cofounders and investors, frantically reaching outward, hoping someone would see the vision I was shown, to help lift these ideas and carry them forward. But the wilderness teaches lessons no classroom can. God showed me that He sustains without human props. Dependence on Him is not metaphor... it is reality. And because of that, I no longer feel anxiety about partners or investors. The right people will come when God sends them, and if no one comes, it will be even more evidence of God's power to sustain.
Only now do I see that the last several years were not disconnected events. My entire life has been preparing me for this... my path through the military and defense sector, through Silicon Valley, through the classroom and the outpost... each chapter was a piece of a larger design. While it often felt random in each phase, now it is becoming clear. The pieces are ready...
And so am I.
For those interested, this is an invitation to follow along as I begin revealing the vision, the system, a door for those who are looking for an exit. A venture studio for the final generation.
I've been quietly building for a long time.
That ends now.