Show Notes
Marketplace ministry is easy to praise and hard to live, especially when your career spans countries, cultures and competing definitions of success. In this episode we sit down with CEO Simoun Ung and trace the story of how an entrepreneur and inventor became a builder of financial inclusion in the Philippines and a leader of Bible translation around the world. Simoun shares his family’s story, from ethnic Chinese roots and a legacy of early missionaries, to a grandmother whose daily p...
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