What We’re Doing to Promote Kingdom Living in the Business World
Asbury Theological Seminary’s Office of Faith, Work, and Economics, in conjunction with the Howard Dayton School of Business at Asbury University, will host the Asbury Marketplace Summit: Faith at Work, November 8-9, 2018. Open to the community, this event will unite students, pastors, academicians, and business leaders to discuss faith, work and economics in the marketplace and how social entrepreneurship carries out Kingdom-minded initiatives using the business approach. Whether in your local community or an international village, social entrepreneurship is a fast-growing trend for development, aid, and the promotion of positive social change.
Join us for two days of impactful dialogue and interaction with national speakers, local social entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, and pastors who will share innovative approaches in business as mission, community transformation, and how to transform your ordinary day’s work into an extraordinary calling. This year’s speakers include: Dr. Charlie Self, Director of City Expansion for Made to Flourish and Professor of Church History at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and Pete Ochs, Founder and Chairman of Capital III.
The event includes a Student Business Plan Competition that allows students to introduce a business plan that solves a social problem, makes a profit, and inspires innovative transformation in the world. Student entrants will have opportunities to be mentored by Asbury Seminary/Asbury University faculty and local business professionals before making their business pitches to a live audience.The competition awards a total of $10,000 in start-up funding for students to use to launch their businesses.
The Marketplace Summit is sponsored through a grant awarded to Asbury Theological Seminary’s Office of Faith, Work, and Economics by the Kern Family Foundation Grant. Established in 1999, the Kern Family Foundation of Waukesha, Wis., invests in the future through support of programs that promote shared values, education and innovation. The Foundation aims to effect systemic change through broad-impact, long-term initiatives.
For more information on the 2018 summit, please contact Taylor Gindlesberger at ofwe@asburyseminary.edu.
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