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Dawnya Sasse (Tea Events) Personal
How it started: Dawnya was raised on the road, the child of musicians with a lounge act that traveled throughout the U.S. Her parents came to the Lord when Dawnya was five and the family attended a Baptist community church. When Dawnya was in junior high the family settled in Central Oregon. Dawnya grew up with an un-diagnosed, prophetic gift in a home filled with the arts and music. She gravitated toward theater, travel to England and attending George Fox University.
Dawnya met Brian on a "Teen Missions" trip that involved a 4 day bus ride where Brian sat in the seat in front of Dawnya. They married in 1990 with a vision to go into youth ministry. Brian's degree is in Christian Education. For 8 years they tried unsuccessfully to get into ministry. They felt rejected by the church, counted their efforts a failure and decided to go into business.
Brian started a dry wall contracting company. Dawnya opened a tea business after they Lord spoke to her at a WorldCast Conference saying "I will give you a ministry of Tea". Both considered their vocational need to work and make a living as "second best" spiritually. The tea business began a year after the conference as a small tea room in Bend that was patterned after Dawnya's love of all things British (she loved to travel there taking groups to walk and pray). The tea room was also an outlet for Dawnya's background in theater... complete with costumes, plays, and entertainment for the customers. The tea business prospered to a second tea room and eventually to an Internet training emphasis to equip others to start their own tea businesses all around the globe. In 2005, Brian joined the tea business to manage the web sites (which he had always handled in addition to his day job) and Dawnya sold the tea rooms to focus on offering entrepreneurial training, conferences, and consulting.
Personal Passion: Brian and Dawnya were particularly impacted by Harold's first book (The Complete Wineskin) and they hold a vision to see the five-fold ministry operate in businesses. Dawnya calls the combination "Busitry". Her prophetic gift in a feminine package coupled with a background in the arts was classically a ticket for rejection in the churches she was involved in. The healthy outlet has been in a prosperous business fueled by prophetic insights and dedicated to helping other women find their five-fold ministry expression in the marketplace.
Personal Benefit: Brian and Dawnya's tea business is an outlet for their creative license. Dawnya is free to keep her own hours and hire gifted pastoral and intercessory women that complement her prophetic gifting. From a missions standpoint the people she's trained are about 90% Christian from all over the world. Her training is effectively a discipleship format to release others in their own marketplace ministry and to challenge them to succeed.
Value to others: Dawnya's training materials and classes can all be downloaded over the internet. Her products are information based resources designed to help people start their own tea business that minister to people in their own communities. She and Brian are exactly in step with God's current emphasis in the marketplace. One of their recent innovations is a Tea Cruise. They will host the first cruise in January of 07. Watch for a future co-event cruise (Tea Events and Releasing Kings)!
Business Potential (upside): The tea business is a quiet niche of 6.5 Billion in the US which is project to be 10 Billion by 2010. Moving from a local tea room to an internet training emphasis raised their income dramatically with no regional boundaries. Dawnya has customers all over the world.
Complexities, failures (downside): One complication is technological change associated with internet marketing and dealing with customers that lack the technical skills to use their computers effectively to download the training materials.
Vision for the Kingdom: Tea Events is the eyes and wings for entrepreneurs in the tea business. Dawnya's theme verse is:
Dawnya's prophetic and intercessory giftings has found expression in prayer walks in other nations. One aspect of her vision is to fund strategic prayer walks in the future as the Lord leads. As a couple, Brian and Dawnya focus their giving to various prophetic ministries whose focus is giving strategic direction to the body of Christ.
The second aspect of her Kingdom vision to pattern her staff after 5-fold ministry gifts and help others find a marketplace expressions for intercession, pastor, teacher, evangelist, prophet, and apostle.
Brian and Dawnya also have a vision for the youth in small towns in rural America where young people get out of high school and leave their communities behind in search of careers. They have purchase a 5000 square foot facility in Washington, Kansas and plan to relocate to "live their message." Lastly, Dawnya plans to expand the entrepreneurial training to other business niche's waiting to be discovered.
Impact from Releasing Kings: Releasing Kings was a huge confirmation that Brian and Dawnya were in the center of God's will expressed through a prosperous business that ministers to people all over the world through the marketplace. They are Kings, to put it simply, and God is using them mightily.
What Can Dawnya Do You: Obviously, if you want to start a tea business, no one in the world is a better resource than Dawnya. Her consulting skills are sought after and she's willing to assist business men and women in developing their own internet based business perfect for their own niche. (whatever your interest) Similarly, Brian has become an expert in websites, internet marketing and search engine optimization.
Lady Dawnya Sasse
Coming Soon! www.TeaBusinessNetwork.com
Brian and Dawnya
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