Issue: Summer 2013 | Posted: June 4, 2013

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Top Asian business leader advocates faith integration in the workplace

One of the Asian Pacific’s leading business leaders told a Union audience that Christians should be willing to use their positions as platforms for sharing the gospel.

Wai Kwong Seck addressed the annual Business Through the Eyes of Faith luncheon April 3 in the Carl Grant Events Center. Seck is executive vice president for State Street Global Markets and served for eight years as chief financial officer of the Singapore Exchange.

“My job can be a platform for God,” Seck said. “I think the platform God gives us is only valuable if we surrender that platform to God so that he can use it as he pleases.”

Seck told the audience of 250 about his conversion to Christianity as a teenager.

“The key to victory in our Christian life is surrender,” Seck said. “Then and only then would I know what real victory is and what life is.”

Seck went on to become one of the key lay leaders among Singapore Baptists. Union has an ongoing partnership with the Singapore Baptist Convention.

Sponsored by the McAfee School of Business Administration, the annual luncheon is designed to encourage and equip members of the West Tennessee business community to integrate their Christian faith into their workplaces.