CBMC of Dallas-Fort Worth
2025 Annual Report
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Thank you for your support of CBMC DFW and the ministry of Phil Carlson in 2025!
Here are just some of the things your financial support has helped to make happen this year:
Trusted Advisor Forums (TAF)
After rapid growth in our TAF groups in 2024, we had to focus on health and continued growth of membership in those groups. We entered 2025 with one strong group with full membership and three very small groups struggling to grow. By the end of 2025 after some rearranging of membership and meeting locations we finished with 3 groups full of members (Frisco, Denton, and North Dallas), with all of them showing signs of continued growth plus much more growth to come. We also gained 2 new trained volunteer facilitators helping to run the North Dallas and Frisco TAF groups.
Connect3 groups meeting in Arlington, Frisco and one new one in Pilot Point!
Every week, businessmen meet in these morning groups experiencing edification, equipping, and empowerment towards being ambassadors for Christ in the marketplace. These groups also serve as onramps for men getting plugged in to our various other offerings and events.
1-on-1 Discipleship
Not only has Phil been taking men through CBMC’s Operation Timothy discipleship process, but together our leadership team is helping to activate Christian businessmen to be disciple-makers themselves. Here is a video testimony of one man impacted by this process.
Impact Circle
In partnership with a local church (the Frisco campus of Genuine Faith Community Church), we had the first one of these events in 2024. We did three more in 2025 with each one having a special speaker and networking as an opportunity for outreach and an onramp for many to get involved with CBMC locally. A number of men have gotten connected into local CBMC groups through these!
Quarterly Prayer Meetings (Marketplace in the Metroplex Prayer Meetings)
God responds to prayer, and knowing that we started quarterly in-person prayer meetings. Over the course of 2025 we had three in-person prayer meetings with growing attendance and participation of men from the Dallas-Fort Worth marketplace praying for one another, the ministry, their families, the lost, and the church.
You can find more testimonies from men who have been impacted through the ministry of CBMC by clicking HERE.
A Major Moment of Transition: On the second day of CBMC’s national conference in St. Louis, MO in October of 2024, David Meyers (left), the president of CBMC honored Stan Bower (center), Senior Area Director of CBMC DFW, for his nearly 28 years of service as an Area Director. Stan’s wife, Laura Bower (right), joined him on stage during this announcement. David Meyers also announced Stan’s forthcoming transition out of that role beginning January 1st, 2025. As part of the prepared remarks that Stan delivered following that announcement, Stan publicly announced that Phil Carlson would be his successor in stewarding the Dallas-Fort Worth ministry of CBMC beginning in 2025. Stan retired from his role of Area Director of Dallas-Fort Worth January 31st, 2025 and went on to found another ministry, The Entrust Network.
Plans for Expansion and Growth in 2026 in order of priority:
Launch more men currently going through the Operation Timothy process into becoming “Pauls,” taking on men that they begin leading through the Operation Timothy discipleship process.
Train 4+ current CBMC members to become volunteer group facilitators for Trusted Advisor Forums groups to free up staff to focus on more group launches and growth.
Train volunteer facilitators for our Connect3 teams meeting in Frisco, Arlington, and Pilot Point to free up resources to start new groups dedicated to empower and deploy men as ambassadors for Christ in the workplace.
Build on the success of Impact Circle and raise up volunteer leaders to grow the number of events and locations.
Recruit 20 more men to be Trusted Advisor Forum group members and launch two more Trusted Advisor Forum groups.
Re-launch Young Professionals groups in a new format to increase the longevity and reach of these groups. Here is a testimony of one man impacted by his visit to a DFW Young Professionals Group. Here is the story of another man whose visit to a YP group became the starting point for a work of God in his life.
Invest In This Work
2026 Funding Needs
Please pray about investing in this work
“Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.” Philippians 4:17
Please pray about making a charitable financial gift. Your investment of any amount is deeply appreciated! Here are some ways you can make a difference through your investment:
Dallas-Fort Worth CBMC Goals
Key Needs:
$25,000 in one-time gifts for fully funded operations through July 1, 2026.
$4,000/month more to maintain and grow full-time operations in Dallas-Fort Worth
Replacement, reliable truck as a “mobile office” for reaching DFW’s nearly 10,000 square miles (averaging nearly 2,000 miles of driving per month) This need has been met as of March 18th, 2026!
BENEFITS:
Better marriages, Better business outcomes, Better discipleship, Better family dynamics
FRUIT:
Fruit of the Spirit, Life-long friendships, multi-generational multiplication: Disciples making disciples
RESULTS:
Kingdom expansion, societal impact, a discipleship and evangelistic movement in the marketplace and beyond
What is CBMC?
Our vision is to see men’s lives, families, and workplaces transformed by God through a growing evangelism and disciple-making movement in every community across our nation.
Our mission is to reach, empower, and deploy generations of men in the workplace to live out their faith and multiply their impact for Christ.
You Can Help
None of this is possible without the faithful prayers and financial support of many individuals, companies and organizations. Your gift, whether a one-time gift or a recurring gift to support Phil Carlson in his work as a CBMC Area Director in Dallas-Fort Worth is tax deductible when you click the button below.
Consider This:
The reality is that the harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few (Matt. 9:37), and while the Gospel is offered without charge (1 Cor. 9:18), this work has a financial cost (1 Cor. 9:7,14). Even the apostle Paul’s ministry was sustained through the generosity of others (Phil. 4:16-18), whose concern was eternal riches (Phil. 4:17, Matt. 6:19-21), and who through their giving, were counted as co-laborers with Paul (3 John 8). If you are considering making a gift, please determine how much to give in your heart without compulsion or begrudgingly, but with joy (2 Cor 9:6-7) recognizing all that you have is a gift from God in the first place (1 Chron 29:14).
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