Building a Kingdom Business in Nairobi with Grace Mbugua | Episode 002

Grace Mbugua started JEILO Collections in her servant's quarter in Nairobi with two sewing machines. Then Carrefour ordered a thousand pieces. In this conversation, Grace walks Matthew Rohrs through what happened next: closing her NGO, training cleaners to become leather artisans, building a manufacturing operation through COVID, why online was a better marketplace than a storefront, and what faith integration actually looks like inside a factory that now exports internationally. KEY TAKEAWAYS: ➡️ Why Grace shut down a women's empowerment center that was working but not sustaining itself, and what that taught her about real opportunity ➡️ How JEILO Collections intentionally promotes entry-level hires, including a cleaner who became her best leather craftsman ➡️ What Kingdom business actually looks like in practice: Monday teaching sessions, prayer over shipments, and customers prayed for by name TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro and what JEILO Collections does 05:30 From NGO to for-profit business 11:00 Faith inside the factory 16:30 The Carrefour moment 22:00 How COVID rebuilt the business 27:30 Get out from behind your desk 33:00 The ripple effect of Kingdom business CONNECT: Website: https://www.sinapis.org/ Matthew's LinkedIn:   / matthew-rohrs-1692715   Sinapis' LinkedIn:   / sinapis-group   Instagram:   / sinapisgroup   If this episode meant something to you, subscribe to Scaling What Matters and share it with a founder you know. #FaithDrivenEntrepreneurship #KingdomBusiness #Sinapis #ScalingWhatMatters