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Rise Cayman

01A founding partner invitation to Cook Media Global

Redemptive media is getting a global home. Cook belongs at the founding table.

Rise Cayman is building the most influential international gathering for redemptive media, in a nation whose motto is a verse. Around the festival, a permanent home for the industry is taking shape. And few organizations could bring more to that table than the four brands of Cook Media Global.

Cayman Islands
Several days anchored on the Emancipation Day holiday, May 2027
A seat for all four brands

02What Cook brings to the table

Four cornerstone brands and a hundred and fifty years of trust.

David Caleb Cook printed his first Sunday school lessons in 1875. The house he started now publishes in more than 130 languages and reaches more than 100 countries. And it keeps growing, with Focus on the Family naming Cook its primary publisher this year and Fair Trade Services joining the family in October 2025.

David C Cook 1875

More than four million Action Bibles sold, plus the companion Bible studies for The Chosen.

Integrity Music 1987

Home of the world’s largest worship song catalog, with offices in Franklin and Brighton.

Fair Trade 1999

A Grammy- and Dove-winning roster with gold and platinum records and No. 1 radio hits.

Group 50+ yrs

A leading U.S. creator of VBS, reaching millions of children and families each year.

Brand details paraphrased from Cook Media Global’s published brand, impact and news pages and from Colorado Springs Gazette coverage, August 2026.

Overhead view of two swimmers in clear shallow turquoise water off a pale Cayman beach.

03About Rise Cayman

The gathering is the spark. The ecosystem is the fire.

Rise Cayman is the Global Gathering of Faith, Music, and Purpose. It’s a ticketed festival open to the entire island, held over several days anchored on the Emancipation Day holiday, May 2027. And it’s built in active alignment and co-sponsorship with the Cayman Islands Government.

Up to 4,000 flown-in VIPs from major faith-forward organizations join Cayman’s own people, and the reach runs into the millions. But the festival is only the start. Around it, Rise is building something like Sundance for redemptive media, with a permanent home for the industry…

The date carries the meaning. In May 1835 the enslaved people of the Cayman Islands were declared “absolutely and unconditionally free,” three years before apprenticeship ended across the rest of the British Caribbean.

Freedom from slavery and freedom from sin are one message told two ways. Rise exists to tell both.

Psalm 24:2National motto · “He hath founded it upon the seas”

Up to 4,000Flown-in VIPs from faith-forward organizations

MillionsReach

www.RiseCayman.com

04Five ways in

The festival is the front door. Behind it, every brand has a room.

Five offers from Rise and Cayman, read across your four brands, with the dots marking where the value lands first.

Brand	The festival	Cayman ties	IP management	Fund management	Global HQ
David C Cook	Action Bible family experiences and author stages	Island churches and schools, nearer Latin America	Translation and licensing rights across 130+ languages	Co-funding for translation and new titles	A hub for global ministry in the Americas
Integrity Music	Worship nights and a live moment of your own	A bridge to Caribbean and Spanish-language worship	A new rights node for the world’s largest worship catalog	Partner capital for catalog acquisitions	A third hub beside Franklin and Brighton
Fair Trade Services	Mainstage moments, with room for artist families	Travel and hospitality partners on the island	A Cayman office for masters and publishing	Artist development capital	The label’s international desk
Group	The family track for the whole festival	VBS with churches across the islands	Experience formats licensed abroad	Capital for international editions	An experience studio for the region

Primary Strong Supporting

Swipe the table sideways to see all five.

Rise Cayman’s own reading of fit, offered as a starting point for the conversation.

05David C Cook · Books and curriculum since 1875

The page already travels to more than 100 countries. Cayman gives it a home port.

More than four million Action Bibles, Focus on the Family’s books and the companion studies for The Chosen all start with David C Cook. So does a global ministry that publishes in more than 130 languages.

The festival: Action Bible family experiences and author stages for families who flew in to be there.
Cayman ties: A host nation with a verse for a motto. And a base nearer the 5,000 Latin American churches using Life on Life.
IP management: One desk to license translations, co-editions and screen adaptations in every language you publish in.
Fund management: Partner capital for translation and new titles, standing beside donor giving rather than replacing it.
Global HQ: A hub for your ministry across the Americas, in a zone built for international companies.

06Integrity Music · Worship label and publisher since 1987

Integrity was born recording live worship. Cayman is a room worth recording in.

Home of the world’s largest worship song catalog, with a rights division already serving writers around the world. Cook describes its Chief Global Officer’s work as building “highways around the world for songs to travel beyond their own language and national boundaries.”

And Cayman sits where two of those highways meet…

The festival: Worship nights, plus a live recording moment of your own with cleared rights to it.
Cayman ties: An English-speaking island between Nashville and the Spanish-speaking church. Its Heritage Month has already featured a gospel concert.
IP management: A third rights node beside Franklin and Brighton, carrying that work into the Americas.
Fund management: Partner capital for acquisitions, so the next great worship catalog joins the family sooner.
Global HQ: An international team on Franklin’s clock from March to November, with five-year work permits.

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07Fair Trade Services · Independent label since 1999

Fair Trade exists to serve artists well. Start with a place their families want to come.

A Grammy- and Dove-winning roster with gold and platinum records and a run of No. 1 radio hits. It’s still led with the flexible, nimble mindset its founder built in 1999. And Rise was designed from day one to benefit artists and their families.

The festival: Mainstage moments in front of up to 4,000 flown-in VIPs and the island. And room for families to come along.
Cayman ties: Travel and hospitality partners on an island whose government is co-sponsoring the festival.
IP management: A Cayman IP and distribution office for masters and publishing, serving the catalog worldwide.
Fund management: Artist development capital from partner investors, alongside the label’s own.
Global HQ: The label’s international desk, staffed on five-year permits that cover the team’s families too.

An orange cushion sea star resting on pale sand under clear shallow water, with sea grass and rippled sunlight around it.

08Group · Experiences for more than fifty years

Group builds the week a child remembers. Build one on the island.

One of the leading creators of VBS in the U.S., reaching millions of children and families every year. And Operation Kid-to-Kid, part of every Group VBS, has already helped more than 4.5 million children through World Vision.

The festival: The family track for the whole festival, so parents and kids stay every day.
Cayman ties: VBS partnerships with churches across the islands, starting the summer after the festival.
IP management: Experience formats licensed and adapted for churches abroad, all administered from one desk.
Fund management: Partner capital for international editions of the programs churches already trust.
Global HQ: An experience studio for the Caribbean and Latin America, inside the zone.

09Your donors, your weekend

Bring Cook’s donors to the island. The weekend is yours.

Rick Bowles leads donor engagement for Cook Media Global. Rise gives his team a weekend built for Cook’s own people inside the festival. And there’s no ask from the festival stage, because Cook’s private event is where your donors are invited into the work.

Your people only

Your delegation travels, stays and gathers as one group. No mixed guest lists and no unplanned introductions.

Cook’s program

Rise supplies the island, the venues, the artists and the crew. Cook decides what your donors see and what gets asked of them.

A list nobody else sees

Your guest list is never seen, shared or marketed to, during the weekend or after it.

The festival is the reason everyone is on the island. Beyond that, your weekend is nobody else’s business.

10IP management

One rights desk for a global catalog, built where substance counts.

Songs, books, recordings and experience formats all earn across borders. And Cayman gives that work a neutral, English-speaking home with the legal tools a rights business needs already in place.

2016Modern copyright law built on the UK’s 1988 Act, covering recordings, films and broadcasts

2017Cayman’s own independent trademark register

Common lawEnglish common law, with final appeal to the Privy Council

But Cayman also expects real substance from any company holding IP there, which means people, premises and decision-making on the island. That’s the reason a rights desk and a headquarters belong together. And Rise is building a Cayman rights company of its own, so the desk can open with a partner already on the ground.

Which catalogs and income streams belong in Cayman is a decision for Cook’s counsel and tax advisors. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.

11Fund management

Capital that stands beside the ministry.

31,000+Regulated funds domiciled in Cayman, mid-2026

No. 1Tax-neutral fund domicile in the world

Over 2×Luxembourg’s fund count, its closest rival

Family offices, foundations and international investors are used to putting capital to work in Cayman. U.S. endowments and foundations commonly hold alternative investments there, and the administrators, auditors and counsel a well-run fund needs are already on the island.

Rise’s founder works alongside multigenerational families on legacy and stewardship, and those families often invest this way.

Cook brought Fair Trade into the family in 2025. So a Cayman fund would let mission-aligned investors stand beside Cook on the next catalog acquisition or film slate, while every donor dollar keeps its purpose. Your CEO has financed more than a dozen feature films. He knows what a well-built fund can do…

Fund figures from CIMA statistics as reported by Cayman Finance, July 2026. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or fund interest, and nothing here is tax, legal or investment advice.

Aerial view of George Town harbor on Grand Cayman, with turquoise water, moored boats and the low waterfront town.

12A global headquarters

Cook Media Global, with a global address.

500Companies in Cayman Enterprise City, October 2026

5 yearsWork permits for staff and their families

UTC−5All year · Nashville’s clock from March to November

Cayman Enterprise City passed 500 companies in October 2026, across 25 specialized industries that include film and media. Cayman’s Premier called it “a significant milestone.” And companies in its Special Economic Zone can be fully foreign-owned and set up on a fast track.

Colorado Springs, Franklin, Brentwood and Brighton each do what they do best. A Cayman headquarters would give the parent brand a home of its own under English common law, about 1h50m from Tampa and Miami. So every brand’s international work gets one front door.

Zone figures from Cayman Enterprise City’s October 2026 announcement as reported by Cayman Finance; zone benefits per published Cayman legal sources. Eligibility and terms are set by the Special Economic Zone Authority. Rise Cayman holds no zone approval or arrangement.

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13The founding seat

Take a full seat at the founding table.

Founding Partner is the first tier of Rise’s partnership structure, and it’s deliberately small. For Cook Media Global, the seat would carry six things.

Founding status: Cook’s name among the founders of Rise, carried forward as Rise grows.
The founders’ table: A voice in where the platform goes next, from festival to permanent home.
All four brands: Featured moments for each brand across the weekend, built with Rise’s programming team.
Your donor weekend: A private weekend for Cook’s donors inside the festival, as slide 9 describes.
First in line: First conversations on the rights desk, the fund and a Cayman headquarters.
Your footage: Cleared footage of every Cook moment, for your own channels.

Prepared by: Kenny Klepacki
Founder and CEO, Rise Cayman
Email: kenny@risecayman.com
Cayman: +1 345 917 9928
US & WhatsApp: +1 727 688 3588 WhatsApp
The gathering: www.RiseCayman.com
Several days anchored on the Emancipation Day holiday, May 2027

Start the founding conversation

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Rise Cayman

14Cayman Islands · Several days anchored on the Emancipation Day holiday, May 2027

A hundred and fifty years of the page and the song. Come build their global home.

Founding seats are few. The table is being set now, and we’d be honored to have Cook Media Global at it.

The Tide Is Rising.

About Rise Cayman. Rise Cayman is the Global Gathering of Faith, Music, and Purpose, a ticketed festival open to the entire island and held over several days anchored on the Emancipation Day holiday, May 2027. www.RiseCayman.com

Sources, disclaimers and asset notice

Not confirmed. Cook Media Global, David C Cook, Integrity Music, Fair Trade Services and Group have not partnered with, agreed to, endorsed or affiliated themselves with Rise Cayman or any related venture, and no relationship of any kind exists between them. This is an unsolicited founding partner invitation prepared for Cook Media Global’s consideration. It contains no statement made to Rise Cayman by Cook Media Global or by any of its officers, staff, artists, authors, trustees or donors.

Sources. Cook Media Global brand structure, leadership, impact figures, history and news from cookmediaglobal.org and davidccook.org; Focus on the Family partnership, Action Bible sales and The Chosen studies from the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 24, 2026; Integrity Music Europe and its rights division from published Integrity announcements, October 2025; Operation Kid-to-Kid figures from group.com; Fair Trade Services acquisition from Gospel Music Association coverage, effective October 31, 2025. Emancipation history from the Cayman Compass, May 2024. Copyright framework per the 2016 extension of a customised Part 1 of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; trademark register per the Trade Marks Law 2016, in force August 1, 2017; economic substance requirements per published Cayman legal guidance. Fund statistics from CIMA as reported by Cayman Finance, July 2026. Cayman Enterprise City figures from its October 2026 announcement and June 2026 economic impact report, as reported by Cayman Finance. Rise Cayman details from www.RiseCayman.com.

Nothing is contracted. No artist, writer, venue, stage, sponsor, broadcaster, production partner, zone approval or budget is confirmed or implied anywhere in this document. Partnership terms with the Cayman Islands Government, including funding, permits and calendar placement, are subject to formal agreement. Programming, IP, fund and headquarters concepts are proposals only, and featured moments are built with Rise’s programming team.

Not advice, not an offer. Nothing here is tax, legal, accounting or investment advice, and no structuring recommendation is made or intended. Nothing here is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or interest in any fund. Any rights, entity, fund or cross-border question raised here is for Cook Media Global’s own counsel and advisors to evaluate independently.

Imagery. Photography here is working imagery and must be replaced with fully licensed campaign assets before any broad public promotion. No AI-generated likeness of any person appears in this document. All third-party names and marks belong to their owners and are used for identification only.

Prepared privately for Cook Media Global by Kenny Klepacki, Founder and CEO, Rise Cayman. Not for public distribution.