Hobby Lobby founder David Green will be the keynote speaker for the 14th University of Mobile (UM) Scholarship Banquet.
The annual event, which raises scholarship funds for University of Mobile students, will be held March 21.
The banquet will kick off at 6:30 p.m. at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center in downtown Mobile.
The evening will include entertainment from the Alabama School of the Arts at UM and a silent auction, hosted by the University of Mobile Torch Society, to raise scholarship funds.
Green built retail giant Hobby Lobby from a home framing business to a retail giant based in Oklahoma City.
Hobby Lobby is the largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer in the world, with sales totaling more than $5 billion in 2018.
Hobby Lobby employs approximately 35,000 company-wide and operates more than 800 stores in a 47-state area, opening about 50 stores each year.
“We believe it is by God’s grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. He has been faithful in the past; we trust Him for our future,” Green says of the business.
Green is the author of two books, “More than a Hobby” and his most recent book “Giving it All Away … And Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously.”
This latest book shares some of Hobby Lobby’s Supreme Court battle involving the Affordable Care Act but also the larger story of family legacy and the power of generosity.
Family legacy
Green and his wife Barbara have received many awards and are actively involved at their church as well as many national and international Christian ministries and charities.
For more information about the scholarship banquet or to purchase tickets go to umobile.edu/banquet or contact UM’s advancement office at 251-442-2587 or advancement@umobile.edu. (UM)
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