Open Hands

About this book

Steve Wilson built a company, released it, and gave while he was still alive to see the fruit.Open Hands is the story of a former Associated Press correspondent who came to faith in a Bradenton prayer meeting, opened a self-storage business in the same season, and spent the next fifty years refusing to separate work from discipleship. It is not a monument. It is an invitation: to hold business, money, influence, and the last season of life with open hands.Drawn from exclusive interviews, Chris McDaniel follows Wilson from Indiana and Tokyo to Hide-Away Storage, succession, Calcutta, Hope Village, and a classroom in his eighties. Along the way the book names panic as well as fruit, limits as well as generosity, and the quiet decision that held it all together: if God is good, the closed hand is not prudence. It is unbelief.Readers will find: A true account of faith joined to entrepreneurship over five decades A picture of succession that does not clutch Giving practiced while living, including the work that became Hope Village Reflection questions for business owners, families, and peer groups An honest man still learning at eighty "This book matters because Steve did not separate the prayer meeting from the construction site, or the balance sheet from the poor." - Buck Jacobs, Founder, C12One dollar from every copy sold supports Hope Village at Help to Home.