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Short Biography of Dave Hodgson

(Homepage of Dave Hodgson´s Ministry: www.kingdominitiatives.au)

Dave Hodgson is a Christian entrepreneur, teacher, and founder of Kingdom Initiatives, a marketplace ministry dedicated to activating believers in business to fulfill their God-given assignments and establish "Sheep Nations" based on biblical principles from Matthew 25.Born in the 1950s, Hodgson grew up in Zambia, Africa, where he spent his early years playing with local African children and learning survival skills like tracking and fire-making. Amid political violence during the Independence Movement, he was sent to boarding school in South Africa at age 4, enduring bullying and rejection due to racial tensions that contrasted with his integrated upbringing.
In 1965, his family relocated to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He left school at 16 and entered National Service after his girlfriend became pregnant, joining the Special Air Service (SAS) for better pay to support his expected family. There, he specialized in advanced demolitions. His child was born on Christmas Day 1973, but his girlfriend married another man and adopted the baby out, leading Hodgson to leave the SAS and join the elite Selous Scouts as the only white member. Trained to infiltrate as terrorists, he operated undercover behind enemy lines and later trained the Rhodesian Army in bushcraft and survival.After the war ended in 1980, Hodgson owned a commercial fishing company and two mines but fled potential reprisals, briefly visiting Australia. Falsely accused of sabotage, he diverted to Singapore, where he bluffed his way into a commercial diving job, self-taught the skills, and saved enough to relocate his family. In 1985, they settled in Australia. Hodgson bought a motorcycle business in Perth, scaling it to a multi-million-dollar enterprise. Initially skeptical of Christianity, he attended church at his wife Merlene's urging, using connections for sales.
His life changed during a Reinhard Bonnke crusade in Perth, where a prophetic word led him to commit to Christ.Relocating to Queensland's Atherton Tablelands, Hodgson focused on funding his local church through business. In 2000, a prophetic word instructed him to move to Caloundra to help build a "mighty church," which he initially misunderstood but later recognized as his assignment.
After a two-year "pit experience" of financial drought, he obeyed, arriving penniless. A pivotal moment came during a finance broking job interview at Aussie Home Loans, where God revealed his lifetime of adversity—from childhood bullying to wartime hardships and mercenary work—as divine training, weaving it into an "unbreakable rope" for dominion if he remained obedient. With God's favor, he excelled, breaking sales records.Hodgson's assignment evolved through further prophecies, including calls to "counsel the Kings" and establish Sheep Nations by integrating Kingdom principles into the marketplace. He pioneered the "assignment" concept, teaching it globally to Christian businesspeople.
In 2003, he demonstrated unconditional commitment by securing a property development deal without funds, generating profits for his church. Today, through Kingdom Initiatives—one of Australia's leading marketplace ministries—Hodgson builds enterprises, influences investment policies for millions, and equips others to overcome "mission impossible" tasks with faith, righteousness, and divine favor.

To illustrate the importance of "right biblical behavior in the marketplace" I would like to add the following:
After he got on the right track, found his assignment, and at that time had debts amounting to $50,000, his income streams rapidly began to grow and to accumulate wealth in, one must say, supernatural proportions. Dave integrates such growth processes into his teaching, which centrally emphasizes that God's favor rests upon "good" economic conduct—one that benefits everyone, including the entrepreneur and initiator himself—to which there are countless empirical studies proving this.

His privately owned total net worth (in assets) exceeded the $7 billion (yes, "b", billion) mark in December 2025.