Mart Green

Mart Green is the founder and CEO of Mardel Christian and Educational Supply and of Every Tribe Entertainment.  He is also an heir to the Hobby Lobby family of companies, which was founded by Mart’s father David Green.

Mart Green’s chain of Christian stores, Mardel, has 32 stores in six states and is headquartered in Oklahoma City.  It is part of the Hobby Lobby group of companies.

Mart Green wouldn’t be your first choice to be the driving force behind a movie, much less two of them.  After all, until just a few years ago, the 42-year-old had never even been in a theater!  Green grew up in a conservative Christian home where movies were shunned, though his parents could’ve bought the local theater—or a whole chain of them, for that matter.  But in 2007, Every Tribe Entertainment released two films: “Beyond the Gates of Splendor,” a 2002 documentary, and “End of the Spear,” an 2005 adventure drama, both about the 1956 killing of five missionaries in Ecuador.  Interestingly, both stories are told from the perspective of the Waodani, the Ecuadorian tribe that killed the missionaries, only later to hear the good news of God’s Word and to see many of its members come to Christ.

As far as Mart Green was concerned, there was no better way to tell the world that “This Book Is Alive.”  Green’s passion is to teach all people, in all cultures, about the powerful love of Christ