Kingdom Philanthropy | Anthony Farr

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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I met Anthony on the back of a donkey in the Egyptian desert, and after a while, it twigged that we’d been tennis partners at prep school! His journey out of business in the City of London back to his native South Africa is riveting. There he pioneered a significant charity called Starfish which impacted many thousands of AIDS orphans, and that subsequently led him to working for Allan Gray (South Africa’s equivalent of Warren Buffett), with the aim of identifying, mentoring and releasing a new generation of ethical entrepreneurs to positively impact society. Join us on Bike for Burundi 2023! More Details at: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/get-involved/bike-for-burundi-23/ (greatlakesoutreach.org/bikeforburundi) Check out https://starfish-greathearts.org/ (starfish-greathearts.org) and https://allangillgrayfoundation.org/ (allangillgrayfoundation.org) If you'd like to receive a weekly podcast episode link that you can share with your friends on WhatsApp, click this link to join the group with ease: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp) --- For more from Simon visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (simonguillebaud.com) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_descriptionandutm_medium=podcastandutm_campaign=inspiredandutm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	I had excused myself from that particular crisis saying, well, I'm in finance.
0:04.2	I don't know anything about health.
0:06.0	I'm not a counselor.
0:06.9	There's nothing that I can do in this particular situation.
0:10.3	And yet having spent an afternoon with these young children and I no longer had an excuse to say that this was for doctors or medical people, I knew that I could get involved and do something in the situation.
0:21.6	Welcome everybody to Inspired with Simon Gilbo.
0:26.6	It's great to be back for another.
0:28.6	I anticipate a fantastic week of hearing inspiring, good news, challenging, overcoming of faith in the nitty-gritty of life. We've got Anthony fire with us today. Welcome,
0:40.3	Anthony. Welcome, Simon. Great to be with you. And Anthony is in Rwanda right now. We're hoping
0:46.9	that the sound quality will hold out for us. So guys, I want you to picture me. This is, I think,
0:55.6	probably I'm guessing about 1997.
1:03.7	I'm on the back of a donkey sort of waddling along in the Egyptian desert. And I'm in a group with a few other tourists. And there's this guy there and he's a great big meathead. And he's,
1:09.7	his, I think donkey is struggling under his weight. No, that's maybe over, over, hegging it up. But there's something familiar about his eyes and after a while chatting, I said to him, did you do all your schooling in South Africa? And he said, yes, a bar from three years at a prep school in Buckinghamshire. And he turns out he's my tennis partner when we were 12 years old. And that is Anthony Farr. So it was a rekind. I mean, we weren't really mates at school, were we, Anthony? But because you were the year above me. Can I brag and say that I took your crown as the tennis champion of coldicots? Exactly. We were too competitive to be friends, Simon.
1:44.7	I think that's not bitter.
1:46.6	Any bitterness is sort of being drenched out there.
1:49.0	But it was amazing, wasn't it?
1:51.4	And God was definitely in that because you then changed your holiday plans.
1:55.2	You joined us at church in Cairo.
1:57.3	And it was a part of your spiritual journey.
1:59.0	You end up back in merchant banking in the city in London, and you did an HDP Alpha course.
2:05.5	And then, I mean, I just saw your trajectory.
2:08.2	It was stunning.
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