Greg Blank, Kingdom Baits founder and student at Stark Seminary and College, didn’t grow up in church. He grew up fishing.
The son of a bass fisherman and deepwater oil rig worker, he’s been “throwing lures” for a long time, he said, though his interests moved from bass to saltwater fishing once he tried it.
“I prefer not having to throw 10,000 times to catch five fish,” he mused, but saltwater or fresh, he still loves fishing.
Fishing was his whole life, Blank explained, saying, “I worshipped fishing.”
He fished professionally offshore. And he “went to school for aquaculture, the study of raising fish, everything fishing,” until he met his wife.
Getting started
Blank has been producing Kingdom Baits for about 15 months with the help of his family including his teenage son, Fisher, and his other children, but the business is still just getting started.
Between supply-preaching, working on his certificate of ministry at Stark and shift work at Seadrift Coke — a plant that produces petroleum needle coke — and his main job of husband and father, Blank said he’s short on free time to devote to his Kingdom-focused startup.
But the calling he feels and his heart for young anglers propels him forward in the business that he sees as more ministry than money-maker.
To follow Kingdom Baits’ growth visit https://linktr.ee/kingdombaits.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Calli Keener and originally published by Baptist Standard.
