Born & Raised:

Apostle Anthony Summers is a native of Berkeley, California and is the youngest of nine children and graduate of Berkeley High School.  At 17 years old, he took a job in books sales, traveling to approximately 38 states across the America for 7 years, learning to greet people in at least 12 languages. Upon returning to California in 1985, at age 25 and after a personal battle with addiction, he accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of his life and his life would never be the same.

Education and Call to Ministry:

He earned his undergraduate degree in history from San Francisco State University and did some further studies at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California. In 1986, he accepted his call into preaching ministry under the late Bishop Glentis A. Turner and ordained in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.) denomination. He invested twenty years in serving that organization. However, due to the intenerate appointments by the Bishops, He pastored five churches in California within the denomination. In 2006, he independently organized Impact Bible Ministries in Vallejo, California.

Marriage:

Anthony is married to his wonderful wife Denise, with whom they have been married for 28 years. They have three amazing daughters, Tiara who lives in Tampa, Florida, Taylor and Lauren who both live and are in college in Atlanta, Georgia.

Business:

Anthony spent fifteen years employed by the Industrial Areas Foundation as a Community Organizer; the same organization and position that former U.S. President Barak Obama held with the I.A.F. in Chicago. He has been employed with Michael’s Transportation Services of Vallejo for nearly eleven years and now holds the position as the Business Development Director, and is responsible for millions of dollars in revenue. Together with CEO Michael Brown, and following the Luke 10 mandate of “two by two,” and in fulfilling the desire to make Vallejo a “Destination City.” Together they have prayed for nearly every public official in Solano County. Through his capacity in civic engagement when California Assembly Bill AB109 passed, he led getting in skills training and job placement for hundreds of formerly incarcerated inmates. These former prisoners now, testify to being “gainfully employed,” families reconciled, children doing well in school, they are taxpayers, some homeowners and life for them is so much better and productive.

International Ministries:

Through his relationship with the city of Vallejo and the Transform Our World organization, he has traveled and ministered in several countries around the world, such as Tanzania and Zanzibar, Africa, meeting with two sitting presidents. He has ministered in Hong Kong, China; Brantford and Toronto, Ontario Canada as well as Cuidad Juarez, Mexico following the Matthew 28 mandate to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. After an extensive period of contemplation, and due to the uniqueness of his ministry, he has also accepted the mantle and call of an Apostle, to his city, state, nation and the world.