On August 15, 2015 / News
We are thrilled to announce our speakers for the 2016 conference. In addition to keynote sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, we’ll also be featuring a Mentoring Q&A Panel following lunch. Our desire is for you to hear from women in different seasons and stages of life.
We want you to be inspired to embrace the one God has you in today while giving you courage to step into mentoring relationships in your community and churches.
While this year’s Mentoring Q&A Panel is still taking shape, we’re excited to introduce you to these Godly women the Lord has brought our way.
Keynote . . . Francie Winslow
We’re excited to have as our keynote speaker at the 2016 conference, Francie Winslow. She is a gifted speaker and solid Bible teacher with a passion for sharing God’s Word and His hope to women in all seasons and stages of life.
Francie has a history of domestic and international ministry that has equipped her to communicate the Gospel with passion to her generation.
It all started in her childhood bedroom where as a pre-teen she discovered God’s love as He pursued her heart.
Her passion for knowing God and helping others know Him led to her help start Bible Studies, outreach groups, and share at local churches as a teen speaker.
She also began traveling domestically with a ministry that inspired girls to know their value, walk in purity and to experience the heart of God.
In the years following, her life was dramatically impacted as she served in Mother Theresa’s home for the dying in Kolkata, sat in brothels with girls her age trapped in the sex trade of Chang Mai, slept in the bush of Namibia to reach tribal people and orphans with the Gospel of Jesus, visited the homes of the poor in the Dominican Republic, and helped with the rebuilding and development of a village in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami.
Francie has a BA in Political Science and a Masters in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Il. She lives in Northern Virginia and is crazy about life with her husband and their four kids.
Francie currently ministers as a blogger, writer, and speaker. You can find her at franciewinslow.com. She has been a contributor on The Billy Graham Center’s Evangel-vision blog, Million Praying Women.com, the Christianity Today blog, and Moody Radio.
Mentoring Q&A Panel
Kate Battistelli
Kate is a New Jersey girl currently living in Atlanta writing about God, food, family and hospitality. Her passion is to remind you there’s a big God Dare with your name on it!
Kate’s goal is to inspire women in their mothering and faith, hospitality and hope.
She is married to Mike, her best friend and they’re parents to recording artist Francesca Battistelli and Mimi and Poppy to Franny’s two children. Before becoming a Christian, she was an actress and singer in the New York Broadway musical theatre world and toured for 2 1/2 years in the Broadway National Tour of The King and I playing Anna opposite Yul Brynner as the King. That’s where she met her amazing husband.
Kate and Mike were very intentional in the way they raised their daughter.
Kate shares about their parenting journey in Growing Great Kids: Partner With God to Cultivate His Purpose in Your Child’s Life
, published by Charisma House. She is also a contributing writer for some amazing mothering sites: MothersofDaughters.com, thebettermom.com, and TheMobSociety.com, for mother’s of boys and occasionally for graceformoms.com. Get to know Kate at her website, http://katebattistelli.com/.
Missie Harrell
Missie Harrell (she looks like one of her girls, but she’s the one on the top row) likes to think of herself simply, but there’s nothing simple about her at all. She is an everyday woman living a life of impact in a small town in eastern North Carolina as she follows the Lord in the roles He ordains. In her words, she describers herself as . . .
Simply a wife of forty-two years.
Mother of three married daughters.
“Mimi” to eight awesome kids.
Daughter of a ninety-seven year old treasure.
Sunday School teacher to teens. Couldn’t get enough after twenty some years of ministry to youth!
Bible study leader and facilitator to ladies of all shapes, sizes and ages.
Follower of Jesus who surely doesn’t always get it right but who desperately loves the journey and who finds great joy in spending time with others along the way and sharing the sweet goodness of the Keeper of Promises and the Lover of Souls!
And, lastly, a flower gatherer, paint dabbler and admirer of all things bright and beautiful.
Missie is not an online type of gal, so you’ll just have to come to the conference to be blessed by her wisdom-filled words.
We are truly honored that Francie, Kate, and Missie will be serving us in April for our 2016 Conference and we hope you’ll be saving the date on your calendar to join us. Early bird tickets will be on sale in late November, so stay tuned for more information. Be sure to join our mailing list, if you haven’t already. You can enter your email address below.
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