Standing in the Gap

Angela is an author, speaker, and Christian coach, certified in the areas of life, recovery, grief, trauma, and joy restoration. Angie has been coaching for many years and uses her own life experiences to help navigate and guide others to success. She has developed tools that incorporate her faith and her drive to overcome life’s obstacles. The one thing Angie attributes her personal victories to is her relationship with God and her deep faith. Angie's calling is to teach others about God, life, and how the two go hand in hand. Let’s take an interesting look at where the gaps are and who is standing in them! Come take part in this interaction! We may laugh, cry, and above all, grow more Christlike together.

Finding Joy When Life is Hard

Laurie is a wife, mom of 2 grown boys and grandmother to 4 granddaughters. She is the author of ‘‘Counting It All Joy” and co-author of “Fiercely Faithful.” Laurie shares her story of finding joy again after years of suffering and devastating loss following her husband’s life changing accident and surgery gone wrong that left him disabled and unable to speak. Their youngest son also faced a scary diagnosis along with many other difficult losses. This family found themselves sitting in the ashes of their old life trying to recover what was lost. Through many years of struggle and sorrow, Laurie was able to find joy again in spite of her difficult circumstances and has found her passion in writing and speaking encouragement to others also walking through tough seasons in life. Laurie will teach you how to find joy again even when life is hard.

Unpacking Your Past

Rachel is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider that helps people unpack their past so they can confidently walk in the future God has for them. We all have a story that is unique to us that no one else. In that story there may be great triumphs and deep valleys. Oftentimes we don’t want to focus on the valleys because they hold painful memories that may be filled with fear, rejection, or shame. We want to keep the past in the past. Yet this often means that the tender wounds of our past are left unresolved and affect our present more than we realize. We aren’t without hope though. We have a great Savior that longs to redeem our deepest pain. He sees and knows all things. Because of that, we don’t have to hide or fear unpacking the past. He truly is the one that heals and can take our deepest pain to re-write our story for His glory.

Learning to Lament through Your Sufferings

During seasons of suffering, we tend to question the Lord’s goodness. Lament reconnects the suffering that comes in a broken world to a perfect Father who knows best, does best and is best. Join Laurie in this breakout session as she seeks to teach us the discipline of lament and how to move past the questions of our suffering to trust God’s sovereignty.

Trusting Jesus with Your Marriage

Do we really believe Scripture and trust Jesus with our marriage? I will share how God has used Scripture in my life and marriage. We will learn how to apply what God says in His Word to our marriages.

How to Care for Adoptive and Foster Children

Shelley has been married for 26 years to William and has dedicated most of her adult life to parenting and caring for children. Together, they have served the fatherless in Mexico for many years, raised two biological children, fostered numerous children, and adopted 4 children through the state foster care system. Shelley is deeply passionate about sharing the goodness and faithfulness of God in her family's journey of caring for children from hard places. She will share her story of God’s provisions as he has loved her family and continues to bring hope and healing to the hurts and brokenness of overcoming the deep trauma in the lives of her children.

Godly Parenting

Taking Your Prayer Life to the Next Level