Serving the Christian Market Since 1968

14732 Middle Point Road Van Wert, Ohio 45891 - 419.238.4082

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helping Christian ministries & Product Companies

to discover new revenue streams and better leverage existing ones

   Gary D. Foster                 

Founder and President of Gary D. Foster Consulting, a marketing and management consulting service specializing in helping religious product companies and ministries discover and optimize new revenue streams and to better leverage existing ones. His goal with clients is to help them to strategically move from good to excellent.

 In addition to providing savvy professional consul to numerous religious product companies in various marketing, product development and management roles, he has been an executive with Focus on the Family where he managed their award winning book publishing operation and $110 million direct mail fund raising division.  He also spent 12 years with the Christian Booksellers Association, where he served as President and CEO of CBA Service Corporation, published CBA Marketplace  — the premier trade journal of the Christian product development and retailing industry, and led numerous marketing related seminars for both product companies and retailers.

He also served in executive product development and marketing positions with Cook Communications Ministries, Moody Press and Moody Magazine. In addition he has extensive experience in product development, strategic planning and direct marketing. 

    Gary has over 30 years of successful publishing, leadership, marketing and management experience, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from LeTourneau University plus completed numerous professional marketing and management seminars including American Management Association’s Executive Course.

   He believes God has called him to model and apply sound management and marketing principles within Christian businesses and ministries. He also publishes the highly respected marketplace intelligence newsletter, The Foster Letter--Religious Marketplace Update twice monthly.
       Residents of the Colorado Springs area for 28 years, he and his wife Pat recently relocated to western central Ohio to be nearer family and are active in the Van Wert Calvary Evangelical Church.