Truth At Work

Highly Engaged Employees

Truth at Work is the result of a vision beginning in 1997. That vision was the culmination personal, professional, and spiritual life changes that Ray Hilbert experienced over the course of a decade after graduating from college with a business degree. Ray graduated from Anderson University with a marketing degree in 1988 and started his journey in... a sales position at a family-owned business. The owner had been one of Ray's Sunday school teachers as a young boy, so Ray had the opportunity to observe a businessman making daily decisions that integrated his Christian faith into the workplace. After two years in that position, Ray went to work for a national company. This gave him the exposure of working in a large company that was not being operated on biblical, but rather on secular methods, where "winning at all costs" was the standard model. Ultimately, Ray was then recruited to work for an international firm where he was exposed to even greater diversity in hiring and business practices, that while acceptable in the world's eyes, conflicted in many ways with his Christian faith and value system. He felt as though he was living in two separate worlds: the "real" world of his work and career, and the "Christian" world of his church and Bible studies. He felt no real connection between the two and sensed a tremendous isolation that he was not successfully living for God in, and through his work. Every Sunday evening he would feel dread as he "geared up" for the workweek ahead. This would prove to be a relevant part of the foundation of what would later become Truth at Work. Partly in response to this conflict in values, as well as a growing desire to start and own his own business, Ray and a partner launched their own company in 1991. They produced and marketed clothing apparel with Christian and pro-family values printed on hats, shirts, etc. It was this experience that allowed Ray to use his business for ministry purposes, as he was able to print and donate products for churches and ministries promoting ...Read More