Faith in the Marketplace
Business people, pastors, entrepreneurs, medical professionals, teachers, lawyers, service providers all find challenges in serving in today's society. Share this time with a nationally recognized speaker who will help us reflect on how Faith in the Marketplace can help us serve Christ and society.
Lecture Series - April 12, 2018, Noon
Cary Summers, President, The Museum of the Bible
Luncheon, Grant Events Center
Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Cost: $20 | Open to the Jackson community
Cary Summers lives faith in the marketplace. He is part missionary, entrepreneur, and CEO. Cary meets regularly with leaders of countries, antiquities dealers, faith leaders and venture capitalists.
Summers oversees the design, programming and building of the 430,000-square-foot international museum which opened in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 2017. Before coming to Museum of the Bible, Summers was president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment/Silver Dollar City Corporation, one of the world’s largest theme-attraction operators. He previously served as vice president for retail, catalog and wholesale for Bass Pro Shops and was general manager of Abercrombie and Fitch when it was the world’s oldest sporting goods company.
Summers has founded a number of consulting ventures that advise organizations, including those in the tourism and the theme-attraction industries. Summers founded Treasures of the Holy Land, an e-commerce enterprise that imports handcrafted goods made in Israel to the U.S., and serves as CEO of Nazareth Village in Israel, a re-creation of the first-century village where Jesus grew up. He is a founding board member of the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, an Israeli human rights group.