From Fields to Fortune: The Faith-Fueled Journey of Moses Heredia
Moses Heredia’s story begins far from the boardrooms and bright lights of global enterprise. His early beginnings included diligent labor as a field worker in Hobbs, New Mexico. On his seventeenth birthday, standing at a bus station in Hobbs, New Mexico, he bought a one-way Greyhound ticket to California. Behind him, his mother stood crying. Ahead of him was uncertainty as the environment wasn’t offering him a hopeful future. He recalls. “God gave me a wake-up call.” That moment, leaving everything familiar, became his first act of faith, a symbolic first step toward the global calling that would later define his life and business.
In California, Heredia rebuilt his life from scratch. He exchanged late nights for discipline, finishing high school and diving into self-improvement. Not long after graduation, he discovered credit card processing, closing his first sale with a Spanish-speaking auto-glass shop owner others had overlooked. “My boss said, ‘We don’t have anyone who speaks Spanish,’ but I went anyway,” he says. That deal would spark a career grounded in the same principles his mother lived by: grit, service, and faith. Those values became the roots of what would grow into Global Processing Systems.
For Heredia, building a business has always meant building people. “That lesson came from my mother,” he explains. “She didn’t just run restaurants or labor crews; she built people.” At Global Processing Systems, that legacy continues. Agents are trained not only to sell but to live by three core habits: Be Positive, Productive, and Proactive. “When one of my agents buys their first home or when a merchant expands to a second location, that’s success,” he says. “Businesses rise and fall, but if you build people, the impact multiplies for generations.”
In a highly competitive payments industry, Heredia credits his success to his 4G’s: God, Goals, Grind, and Global. “Anyone can offer a terminal or a flashy app,” he says. “What sets us apart is our foundation.” His leadership philosophy is rooted in faith and perseverance, shaped by verses like Galatians 6:9: “Do not grow weary of doing good, for in due season you will reap.” For Heredia, innovation means creating tools that expand opportunities for merchants, not chasing trends.
Faith is not just a private belief for Heredia, it’s the lens through which he runs his company.
“Faith keeps me accountable to do the right thing, even when it costs more in the short term,” he says. “Corporate responsibility ensures I steward what God has entrusted with excellence. Together, they create a culture of compassion and discipline.”
His greatest test came in 2004 when his mother passed away. “She was my first teacher in business and my example of perseverance,” he reflects. “Losing her felt like the foundation of my life had been ripped away.” Yet, even in grief, her lessons endured. Heredia continues to honor her legacy by leading with the same strength and conviction she modeled in the fields of his youth.
Today, his mission is clear: to turn “Fields To Fortune” into a movement that outlives him.
“My legacy isn’t Global Processing Systems, it’s the people who come through it,” he says. “If my agents and the next wave of entrepreneurs can start where I finished, with God, Goals, Grind, and Global in vision, then the real empire will be lives changed and faith in action.”
