U.S. Department of Commerce statistics revealed that in 2010 U.S. companies exported $163 billion worth of goods and services internationally, which is a significant deficit from years past. However, innovative Dallas-based organization, Marketplace Chaplains, continues to increase the export of care and compassion through corporate chaplains.

Marketplace Chaplains, founded in 1984 in Dallas, Texas, is the nation’s original and largest corporate chaplain care provider. Fortunately, in the last five years Marketplace Chaplains has found a unique growth niche, providing chaplains to workers in international markets.

“We have 2,500 corporate chaplains providing daily care and concern to U.S. client company employees and their family members in 43 states and nearly 1,000 cities,” said Marketplace Chaplains President and COO, Dick De Witt.  “Just as we find here, workers all over North America and Europe have the same problems and needs, desirous of speaking with trusted,
trained, caring and compassionate chaplains.”

Mexico was the first country to welcome and employ Marketplace Chaplains in 2006 and has since been joined by companies in Puerto Rico, Canada, England and Scotland.  Most recently, Alberta, Canada, is the latest Canadian providence to use the services of Marketplace Chaplains International.

While the U.S. trade deficit may be widening, so is the personal engagement and response of Marketplace Chaplains in America and around the world.