From Brokenness to Stewardship
Both Christy and I were blessed to accept the Lord early in our lives—I was 12 and Christy was 19. We began attending Christian Family Chapel in 1987, and we were married right here the following year.
Early in my adult life, I chased worldly success. But I quickly learned how empty and frustrating that path can be. By mid-1989, facing the responsibilities of a marriage and a new baby, the Lord showed me how much I had ignored Him. I hadn’t trusted Him with our finances. Out of pride and over-confidence in my own strengths, I hit a wall of absolute hopelessness. Through Godly counsel, I surrendered. I embraced the beautiful truth that God owns and controls everything.
That turning point changed our trajectory completely. In January 1990, we joined a Crown Ministries small group study offered at Christian Family Chapel. It transformed our lives and truly saved our marriage. We immediately fell in love with this work and began volunteering for the ministry. By January 2002, the Lord called us into full-time service with Crown.
After much prayer and counsel, I stepped away from Crown in late 2010 to start Compass Financial Ministry-Florida. It has been an honor to partner with Howard Dayton—the founder of both ministries—to continue building a legacy of biblical financial discipleship right here in our community
Ministry Focus
A Vision for True Devotion
Our God-inspired vision at Compass is simple: to see everyone, everywhere, faithfully living by God’s financial principles. We teach financial discipleship because we want to see people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. If we are honest when looking at our culture and economy today, it is easy to see how quickly we can fall into cultural traps. Even as Christ-followers, we often chase after success, wealth, comfort, and self-sustainability. Sadly, these things usually come at a steep cost—distracting us from true intimacy with Christ, pulling us away from deep relationships, and keeping us from serving others. Jesus warned us often that wealth and money would constantly compete for our attention and devotion (Matt 6:24, Luke 12:21).
To push back against these distractions, we focus on three core goals:
· Evangelism: Learning God’s Word and drawing people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
· Stewardship: Applying biblical principles to our money and possessions.
· Financial Discipleship: Training you with what we have learned, so you can go out and multiply by teaching others.
Equipping God’s People Everywhere
One of the things I love most about Compass is its reach. God has allowed us to serve people across every age group, background, and walk of life. By partnering with local churches, Christ-centered businesses and Christian ministries, we are watching lives change every single day. Everything we create is entirely Bible-based. Our deep desire is to help you draw closer to Christ and let Him truly lead every area of your life. Our website (www.compassfinancialministry.org) is a library of easy-to-use tools just for you! And many are free! You can jump in right away with daily devotionals, short videos, topical scripture guides, on-line webinars, and interactive Bible studies.
FRUITS FROM OUR MINISTRY
Celebrating What God Has Done
None of this work happens in a vacuum, and we are constantly amazed by how God multiplies our collective efforts. Because of your prayers, partnership, and support, just in the past five years, we have been able to train over 2,000 Financial Discipleship leaders spanning 44 states and 89 countries! On top of that, we’ve had the immense privilege of personally walking alongside over 200 individuals through our intensive, 12-to-18-month One More Journey discipleship process. Thank you for locking arms with us to make a truly global impact.
Partner With Us in This Mission
To keep providing, improving and creating new resources and continuing our training of global leaders, we rely entirely on the generosity of partners like you. We receive no compensation from the sale of resources. Right now, we are facing a $3,000 gap in our regular monthly support. Would you prayerfully consider joining our monthly support team to help bridge this gap? Whether it is a monthly commitment or a one-time gift, your investment directly fuels financial discipleship worldwide.
How to Give: You can mail tax-deductible checks made payable to: Compass Financial Ministry-Florida 5215 River Park Villas Drive, St. Augustine, FL 32092
PRAYER REQUEST
A Milestone and Our Prayer Requests
After 17 fulfilling years of serving as a Preschool Teacher at Precious Promises Preschool, Christy officially retired from teaching this past May. She has always shared my deep passion for Financial Discipleship, and our Board of Directors have enthusiastically approved her joining Compass Florida in a part-time role! In addition to marketing and administrative support, Christy will be using her years of educational experience to bring Compass’s Bible-based financial resources to homeschool groups, Christian schools, and children’s church programs—serving young people from ages 5 all the way through 22. We are so excited to see how God uses her unique gifts in this next season!
As we step into everything God has ahead, would you please join us in praying for these specific areas?
· Open Doors for Christy: Pray that God prepares the hearts of school leaders, homeschool parents, and churches to welcome these vital financial discipleship resources for youth.
· Provisions for the Mission: Ask the Lord to stir the hearts of new volunteers and provide ministry funding needed to support this expanding vision.
· Future Leadership: Please pray for clarity, wisdom, and confirmation as we look for the right successor to mentor and equip over the next several years to lead this ministry into the future.
Call to Christ
Both of us accepted the Lord as our personal Savior as teenagers. We started attending Christian Family Chapel in 1987 and were married here in 1988. In January of 1990, we were asked to participate in a Crown Financial Ministries small group study and it changed our lives. We began volunteering for Crown locally, and in January 2002, the Lord called us into full-time ministry with Crown. From 2002 to 2010, we served in various capacities. Jim was the Area Director for NE Florida initially, and later became the Regional Director for the South US. Christy served as his administrative assistant on a part-time basis. In late 2010, after much prayer and counsel, Jim resigned from Crown to begin Compass-finances God’s Way Ministries of Florida, an affiliate of Howard Dayton’s ministry, Compass-finances God’s Way, Inc.