Catholic Business Forum

2510 East Hanna Avenue,Tampa FL 33610

15 March, 2023

Description

Join your fellow Catholic entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals for the monthly 3rd Wednesday meeting of the Catholic Business Forum on February 15th at Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church. The Catholic Business Forum is a group of Tampa Bay Catholic businessmen and women from various trades and professions who are interested in networking with other Catholic professionals. Criteria for participation in the group: Practicing Catholics who desire to: 1. Glorify God through their business. 2. Build a trusted network of faithful Catholic businessmen & women. 3. Offer prayer, encouragement, and peer advisory for the other participants and their businesses. ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: JEFF JOAQUIN Jeff Joaquin is a member of the Board of Directors of Paradisus Dei which is the ministry that provides the That Man Is You! (TMIY) Program to over 800 Parishes across the United States and several countries oversees. For more than 14 years Jeff has been actively involved in spreading the TMIY program on a local, regional and national level and recently provided content for three different sessions which are part of the Year 7 and 8 programming for TMIY. Jeff is one of the founding members of the Tampa Bay Catholic Men’s Conference which had its 12th Annual Conference in February of 2022. The Conference has consistently provided national speakers and ministry opportunities to the nearly 1,000 men in attendance for over the last decade. Jeff is the Owner of JMJ Site Development Inc. which is a philanthropic construction company supporting worthy ministries all over the world from the Philippines, India, the Central Africa Republic, Guatemala, Jerusalem and across the entire United States. Jeff has embarked on a new journey to create awareness of the often-overlooked men’s perspective of abortion. He lays bare the impact and lifelong burden of guilt and grief that men carry after abortion in an effort to provide men and women a path to healing and to help others make positive decisions about unexpected pregnancies. Jeff has given talks on abortion, pro-life, substance abuse and charity to high school students, men’s conferences and retreats all over the country. His abortion talk has received national attention and has been played on TMIY, Formed.org, Shalom Media, Heroic Men and countless other media outlets. Jeff’s YouTube Channel has many of these 15 recorded talks and can be accessed at link below: https://www.youtube.com/@JeffMJoaquin/featured Jeff and his wife Sandy have one daughter and have resided in Tampa Bay for the last 25 years.