USCCC Presents: Why Christian Businesses Stall — And How to Break Through the Next Growth Horizon

Why Christian Businesses Stall - And How to Break Through the Next Growth Horizon

Event Description

Many Christian CEOs, founders, and business owners are doing the right things—leading with integrity, praying for wisdom, and building values-driven companies—yet still find themselves stalled at the next level of growth. Revenue plateaus. Teams feel stretched. Margins tighten. And the leader carries more responsibility than ever.

The problem isn’t a lack of faith. More often, it’s applying the right principles with an incomplete or flawed growth strategy.

In this practical and highly relevant session, James M. Barthel shares over twenty years of entrepreneurial and coaching experience, including scaling and exiting an eight-figure national company after starting with more than $300,000 in debt. James explains why Kingdom businesses often stall—not because God has stopped blessing them, but because leadership capacity, systems, and decision-making have not kept pace with the next stage of growth.

Using the Biblical Three Horizons of Growth Roadmap and the Integrated Faith Business ™ (IFB) Framework, James equips CEOs and owners to accurately diagnose where their business and leadership are constrained accurately, integrate faith principles consistently, and identify the specific business moves required to break through the next growth horizon—without burnout, misalignment, or compromising their Kingdom values.

This session is designed for Christian Business leaders who want clarity, execution, and results, not theory.

Participants Will Leave With:

• A clear diagnosis of which growth horizon their business is operating in—and why certain leadership approaches no longer work
• Clarity on what must change next, including leadership focus, decision-making, team structure, and operating discipline
• A practical framework for faith-driven execution that aligns spiritual growth, leadership capacity, and business mastery
• Keys to accelerating growth and profitability while avoiding common delays and wrong turns
• A roadmap for building engaged, high-performing teams that deliver both near-term results and eternal impact

Meet the Speaker: James Barthel

James M. Barthel, MBA, is a former CEO, founder, growth advisor, and best-selling author of Thou Shall Grow. 

After leaving a corporate career and facing significant financial pressure, James sought God’s direction and developed a biblical growth framework that transformed his leadership and business. 

He scaled a two-person startup into a national market leader valued in the eight figures, recognized by Forbes and the Inc. 5000, before successfully exiting to private equity. 

Today, James leads New Horizons LLC, Kingdom Business Alliance, and serves on the board of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce (USA), and equips business leaders to Grow with Faith, Profit with Purpose, and Scale What Matters with Kingdom alignment.

Thou Shall Grow Book on Amazon. https://a.co/d/0x1ZfeI