Join Faith Forward for a morning designed to encourage and equip leaders to live and lead with faith in everyday life.
Event Details:• Date: Friday, September 25, 2026• Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM• Location: Missio Church (1112 S 12th St, Bismarck, ND 58504 )• Includes: Coffee, community connection, and a featured message
About Faith Talk
Faith Talk creates space for leaders across industries and life stages to pause, open Scripture, and grow alongside a community of faith-driven leaders. These gatherings are welcoming, practical, and spiritually grounding, designed to help you carry your faith into your work, relationships, and leadership.
Featured Speaker: Vern Dosch
Vern Dosch is the former President and CEO of NISC, the technology cooperative headquartered in Mandan. During his tenure from 2002 to 2020, membership grew from 392 to more than 850, the employee population grew from 400 to roughly 1,400, and investment in research and development went from $1 million to more than $50 million. In 2021 he was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame, the highest honor in the U.S. cooperative community.
A lifelong resident of Bismarck-Mandan, Vern holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Management from the University of Mary. He is the author of Wired Differently, which tells the story of NISC through the lens of servant leadership and shared values, and has never taken a profit from the book. Proceeds go to a benevolence fund for NISC employees in distress.
That last detail says as much about how Vern leads as the growth numbers do. He built a career on the conviction that serving people first is the strategy, not a soft add-on to it.
We would love to have you join us as we gather, grow in Scripture, and move faith forward together.
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