Cindi McMenamin is a national speaker and author who helps women find strength for the soul. As a longtime pastor’s wife and Bible teacher, she has more than 30 years experience ministering to women and inspiring them to let God meet their emotional needs, grow stronger through their alone times, and pursue their dreams with boldness. Cindi is the author of 15 books from Harvest House Publishers including her bestseller When Women Walk Alone(more than 120,000 copies sold), When God Sees Your Tears, God’s Whispers to a Woman’s Heart and her most recent, Drama Free. Cindi’s audience continually refers to her as:

• Relevant – no matter what they’re going through she speaks to the issues they are dealing with.
• Personable – With humor, transparency and the ability to share from her own weaknesses and failures, she relates to women of all ages from high school/college to retirement.
• Powerful – Through principles and insights from God’s Word as well as her own story and other women’s transformational stories, Cindi challenges women to move beyond where they are now and experience powerful life change.

These are just a few of the most common responses Cindi receives after speaking

“I could relate to everything you were talking about. It’s as if you were talking straight to me.”

“I was challenged to start living differently by using the practical tools you provided at the retreat.”

“I could’ve listened to you talk all evening. Please come back every year.”

 

Cindi’s most requested presentations:

You Can be Drama Free

In this fun presentation, Cindi shows women practical ways to dial down the drama in their lives and respond appropriately to situations that would otherwise escalate.

Focusing on the Few Things That Matter

In this encouraging presentation, Cindi shows women how to increase their ability to identify and say “no” to busyness, learn how to slow down and spend more time with loved ones, maximize their peace and productivity, and discover new sources of endurance in the face of stress.

Restored!

Through Scriptural insights and practical helps, Cindi shows women how to see God as the Only One who truly satisfies, develop a desperation for God and long for His healing touch, experience a new confidence through a proper understanding of God, and enjoy the blessing of investing in the lives of others.

Women on the Edge

Through personal stories and real-life accounts of biblical women, Cindi shows women they are not alone in their everyday frustrations that make them feel they’re going to go over the edge. She helps them shift their focus from self to God, trust their heavenly Father more with the things they cannot control, and enjoy the confidence that comes from a heart wholly surrendered to Him.

Discovering Your Dream

Cindi’s message helps women explore God’s specific design for their lives by helping them verbalize new dreams for the first time, resurrect lost dreams and see them to fruition, and connect their desires and natural abilities to God’s purpose for them.

The Role of a Lifetime

A woman tends to define her role in life by her responsibilities and relationships. Yet God sees her apart from what she does and has given her an irreplaceable role and a “red carpet” she hasn’t realized. This “Hollywood-themed” retreat or event stresses the amazing worth of a woman in God’s eyes and challenges her to see her potential to make a difference in this world.

Longings of a Woman’s Heart

Cindi looks at the longings of a woman’s heart, where she goes to satisfy those longings, and the kind of fulfillment only found in an intimate relationship with Christ. Includes practical ways to see God as your First Love.

When You’re Running on Empty

Cindi shows you how to finish your day feeling energized by your activities, rather than worn out by busyness. Presentation includes practical ways to implement good health habits that recharge your energy, and ways to avoid burnout by leaning on God for daily power.

Reflecting His Light

Is your life marked by the light you radiate toward others? It can be. In this inspiring talk, Cindi shares how you can look to God for your fulfillment, live in the light of His joy, and live like a child of the King.

Cindi also speaks on Inspiring Your Daughter (using material from her popular book, When a Mom Inspires Her Daughter), Worry-Free Parenting (from her book, 10 Secrets to Becoming a Worry-Free Mom); and Drawing Your Husband’s Heart Closer to Yours (from her books When a Woman Inspires Her Husband and 12 Ways to Experience More with Your Husband.)

Cindi’s Christmas Talks:

‘Tis the Season to be Stress Free – In this upbeat presentation, Cindi speaks to the heart of every woman who finds herself busy and stressed over the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons by showing them practical ways to slow down and enter the holiday season with a focused heart.

Celebrate the Savior  – This encouraging message will help women appreciate the kind of friend they have in Jesus, discover God as the Father they might have never had, and experience freedom through God’s forgiveness and gift of eternal life

Hope for the Holidays – No matter what you – or someone you know – is going through, Cindi shares comfort from a wonderful story in God’s Word about how He hears your prayers, sees your tears, and is planning for your greater good, no matter what things might look like now.

Besides speaking across the country, Cindi has made numerous TV and radio appearances on shows such as Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson, Moody Broadcasting’s Prime Time America and Midday Connection, At Home Live, The Harvest Show, 100 Huntley Street, Not Just Talkin’ the Talk, and His Love Extended.

Cindi and her husband, Hugh, live in the San Diego area of Southern California where Hugh is a pastor on staff at North Coast Calvary Chapel in Carlsbad. They have been married  30 years and have a grown daughter, Dana.

 

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Living much of her life as a stressed-out, burned-out SuperGal, Lori’s life was completely turned around when she met Jesus during a tragic storm. Defeated and broken, she had to lay down her overwhelming pride and face her lack of faith. Today, Lori is an inspirational speaker, singer, Bible teacher and author of her memoir, SuperGal vs. GOD. Through her experience, she speaks, with transparency and humor, to encourage women to surrender their struggles with their stressful, self-reliant, people-pleasing, too-busy lives and find God’s abundant peace

through His Word. She is endlessly grateful to a loving God who refused to give up on her. A God who is teaching her that her value to Him is in being and not doing.Lori is the owner of independent publishing company, Broken Shoe Press, and a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. She loves to sing, garden, and laugh in the chaos of her grandkids. Lori and her husband have five children, thirteen grandchildren, and enjoy living near Valley Forge, PA.

Speaking Topics

Overcoming the SuperGal Syndrome – Overcome the Overwhelm!

God Says – World Says – Two Perspectives of a Changing Culture

Mind Your Mind (Living Anxious No More)

Behold the New You

Maxed-Out Momma

Paralysis of Perfectionism

Tattle Tongue (Delight or Destroy?)

Chains (The Burden of Living in Fear)

I’m Out of Control With Control

Millennials and Mountains

Do We Really Want It All (And the Stress That Goes With It?)

Kathy Collard Miller is best known as a speaker and author for her practical Biblical teaching with vulnerable sharing, humor, and motivation woven throughout. Kathy’s ministry began after God delivered her from being a child abuser of her toddler daughter and the restoration of her broken marriage to Larry.

Since 1984 when her first book was published telling her story, Kathy has been in awe of God’s plan to develop a ministry with a world-wide impact. That includes being a best-selling and award-winning author of over 50 books, featuring a full array of non-fiction genres including Bible studies, Bible commentaries, Christian living topics, and being an editor of compiled books. Some of her other books are the Daughters of the King Bible study series (Whispers of My Heart and Choices of the Heart) and Never Ever Be the Same: A New You Starts Today (co-written with Larry). Kathy’s articles have appeared in numerous magazines and online sources. And she has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs including The 700 Club.

Kathy is also amazed about the open doors God has given for speaking. She has spoken in over 30 U.S. states and eight foreign countries including China, Indonesia, and Greece. She loves to see new sights and is so grateful her ministry allows her to travel and see the world. Kathy and Larry, her husband of almost 50 years, often write and speak together, especially at marriage events. They are also lay counselors.Kathy and Larry live in Southern California, and are the parents of two and grandparents of 2.

One of many endorsements for Kathy’s speaking : I have participated in and also led several church retreats over the years. Our latest retreat, with Kathy as the speaker/teacher for the whole weekend, was the deepest, most life-changing retreat I’ve ever been on. Her willingness to be vulnerable about her own life allows women to feel safe so they can open up about deep wounds and hurts they may have hidden their whole life. Kathy is a willing vessel the Lord uses to teach, encourage, love and challenge participants, so their walk with God becomes clearer, stronger and better than they ever thought possible.—Irene Brennick, Director of Women’s Ministries, Life Spring Church, Moorpark, California Director, Community Services, Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center

Kathy’s speaking topics, yet Kathy is always eager to prepare new material to meet the needs of each individual group.

RETREAT TOPICS

Pure-Hearted

Every woman longs to serve and know God from a pure heart. She knows her motives are often muddy and confused. From her newest book, Pure-Hearted: The Blessings of Living Out God’s Glory, Kathy reveals the keys for understanding how seeking God’s glory brings purer motives.

Heart Change

Every women can be transformed from the inside out. These presentations are based on Kathy’s latest book, Never Ever Be the Same: A New You Starts Today (co-authored with her husband, Larry). Kathy reveals the keys for determining the underlying causes of ungodly behavior. Then she shares how to come to the point of trusting God more by repenting and surrendering to God’s power.

Through His Eyes

In these presentations, Kathy gleans insights for living with an eternal perspective from the book of Philippians.

Partly Cloudy with Scattered Worries

Kathy is eager to share with women how they can trust God more, reduce worry (even eliminate it), and have greater peace in their lives. These presentations are based on her book, Partly Cloudy with Scattered Worries.

Princess to Princess

Kathy uses examples from both biblical women and fictional modern women to motivate Christian women to operate within their God-given inheritance in Christ so that they become strong, righteous, know they are precious, protected, and predestined for good works, among others.

Heart of Grace

We can give grace to ourselves and to others. Grace is the opposite of perfectionism and Kathy shares how to walk in realistic expectations and love others more.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION TOPICS:

Stop Motherhood! I Want to Get Off!

Kathy tells the poignant story of how God enabled her to overcome her abusive reactions toward her daughter and how God healed her marriage.

Why do I Put So Much Pressure on Myself and Others?

Someone has said, “A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains and passes them on to others.” Kathy reveals how to diminish “passing on” those pains.

When Counting to Ten Isn’t EnoughKathy offers hope about the causes and solutions for anger, particularly parental frustration.

Prevent Stress From Becoming DistressKathy examines worry, unrealistic expectations, priorities and time pressures.Discipline Children EffectivelyKathy answers the questions every parent has about responding to a child’s disobedience.Meet Your Husband’s Significance NeedsA wise wife can learn how to meet her husband’s needs for significance by becoming his lover, respecter, and helper, along with developing her individual identity.Find Contentment in a Disappointing World

Kathy presents solutions for contentment cheaters like the physical body, people, problems, and possessions.

Your View of God

In this interactive presentation, Kathy helps women identify God’s attributes and any wrong assumptions about His nature.

Listening to God’s Voice

From I Kings 19, Kathy uncovers principles for hearing God’s voice, even in the midst of busy lives.

God is Worthy to be Praised

Within Psalm 103, Kathy relates motivating and inspirational ideas for praising God.

Staying Friends with Your Kids

Parents can respond to their children as they are growing up so that when those children are grown, they all can be firm friends. Kathy tells you how.

For a half, full, or two day events, mix and match from Kathy’s basic topics to coordinate with your theme.

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About Monica SchmelterMonica is probably best known as the host of the Christian Television Network’s daily television program, “Bridges.”    Broadcast weekly in over 50 million homes across the U.S., “Bridges” has been on the air for more than 20 years. A talk show designed to showcase the hearts, struggles, and triumphs of Christians living everyday life, “Bridges” is a project that represents Monica’s childhood dreams of someday using television to make a difference in the world.As a young girl, growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Monica regularly daydreamed about being on TV, but it was in high school when that vision really began to take shape.  In Monica’s senior year of college, she began to sense thattelevision was not just a “desire” but a part of God’s plan for her life.“When I first considered studying television in college, I was thinking that God wanted me to be a news anchor,” Monica says. “It was not until I graduated from college that I realized Christian television was God’s plan for me.”

After graduating from college, Monica started to put her news anchor “demo reel” (yes, that’s what they called it back then) together when she sensed that God was telling her to go another direction. Monica obeyed and ended up letting the idea of television go completely. Buoyed by the support of her husband, Joe, Monica began looking for other opportunities that would fit with God’s will for her life.

Monica’s first real job out of college was at the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries. Although Monica knew accepting that job would look odd to many people, she decided to ignore those comments and concerns.  Instead, she began heading up the Rescue Mission volunteer recruitment program and writing copy for their radio ads.

“Working at the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries was a very rewarding job,” Monica remembers. “I recruited volunteers from churches to serve in the Mission’s medical and dental clinics and to serve as prayer volunteers in the chapel.  Writing the radio ads and doing voice-overs for the Mission was the ‘icing on the cake’ part of the job.”

After a year at the Rescue Mission, the organization decided to launch a telethon. Remembering that Monica’s background was in television, Monica’s boss asked her to produce the telethon. Monica excitedly agreed.

“I had no idea how to produce a telethon,” Monica admits now. “But I knew God would help me do it.”

In one of the planning meetings for the telethon, Monica met the President of the local  Christian television station in Detroit, MI.  After those telethon planning the President of the Christian television station offered Monica a full time postion.

After a lot of prayer, Monica accepted the position, but only after she completed the telethon assignment with the Detroit Rescue Mission.  The Mission’s telethon was a tremendous success, and Monica’s boss at the Rescue Mission was very understanding and supportive about her job offer in Christian television.

“I loved my early years in Christian television,” Monica says. “I did on-air work, produced shows, and answered the phones. It was definitely God’s training ground for my work in Christian television.”

Monica’s next assignment included being a stay-at-home mom with her son, Joe.

“Being a stay-at-home mom was just the best. Those are times I can never have back, but I definitely appreciated every single moment I had,” Monica says.

Fast-forward several years. These days, you’ll find Monica serving as station manager at WHTN, Nashville’s Christian Television Network.

“I have served WHTN as a volunteer, camera operator, traffic manager, program host, and station manager,” Monica says. “I’ve worked 19 years at WHTN, and it’s been one of the biggest blessings of my life and career.”

Monica feels strongly that Christian media is even more important now than when she first sensed God’s call.

“The world is a dark place and things are changing rapidly,” she says. “All people need the hope and truth that Christian television provides.  We get calls and emails every single day from people whose lives are changed through Christian television.”

As WHTN’s station manager, Monica oversees all aspects of WHTN.  It’s a responsibility she takes seriously and one that requires she rely totally on the Lord.

“Whether I’m praying for a viewer, leading the team, speaking on television or at an event, I am depending on the Lord for strength and wisdom,” Monica says. “I have no desire to be hip, cool, or clever.  I don’t have a brand or a gimmick. I speak God’s Word with boldness because I know Him.  He is good and He desires that all people come to salvation through His Son Christ.  I don’t let my ministry or my life get more complicated than that.”

Speaking Topics

Relationship to the Rescue Labels

Lies & the Truth Faith

Friends

Chocolate Re-Writing the History of your Family through Prayer Lessons from the Junk Drawer

 

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Email Us!

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You can reach Yvonne Ortega here at

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Or call: 757-529-1222

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Yvonne Ortega – Arise Speakers

Linda Loves to Reach Church & Community Women at Christmas Events

Linda Evans Shepherd, the publisher of Leading Hearts Magazine and has empowered thousands across North America and Europe to release their burdens to God and walk more closely with him. No matter that many in Linda’s audiences arrive worried and disconnected, they leave refreshed; with a deeper trust in God.

For the Joy – Discover how to find real and lasting joy. Scriptures stories and fun! Lots of laughter.

Be a Better You– Fun, dynamic, deep. Interactive corporate-inner healing event focusing on yielding to God’s peace concerning your Fear, Bitterness, and Grief issues. Powerful! (One of Linda’s favorites.)

Faith Never Shrinks in Hot Water  – Can our faith stretch to fit tough times? Laugh till you cry as Linda shares her testimony and explains how to discover God’s love for you despite life’s circumstances. Powerful and dramatic!

When You Don’t Know What to Pray – This is not only a powerful teaching on prayer, it is a prayer experience. Based on Linda’s best selling book.

When You Can’t Find God – Powerful look at holding on to God in hard times.

Live Your Life as an Act of Worship – Learning how to focus on God in your daily life.

God Wants Spiritual Fruit Not Religious Nuts – Do you want to Experience God in a deeper way? Then find out how to stay connected with The Vine so you don’t become a religious nut!

When You Need a Miracle – This topic is about learning to trust God, no matter what – inviting His presence in our difficulties, while shutting the door to the enemy.  Linda encourages her audiences to open their eyes to the fact that God is indeed on the move and that His miracles are all around them.

Experiencing the Presence of God, Learning to Listen While you Pray – NEW! based on Linda’s latest book. Focuses on how to hear God’s voice in your everyday life, with the retailing of the stories of people who encountered Jesus in his earthly ministry. Powerful.

MORE Topics & Events:

The Powerful Prayer Event – Up to 8 hours of teaching on prayer, including corporate prayer experiences so your group can go deeper in their relationship with God.

The Faith Lift Event – Blend of topics that focus on giving God our burdens.

For the Joy Event – Blend of topics that focus on the JOY of the Lord.

Winning Your Daily Spiritual Battle – Turns Spiritual warfare on its ear as we learn that we were all former slaves set free by the Great Prince.  We must know how to fight our enemy with the weapons of our warfare.

The Wonderful Worship Event – Blend of topics that focus on lifestyle worship.

Focus on Jesus Event – Blend of topics that focus on Jesus.

Linda’s Christmas Topics:

THE MARY CHRISTMAS – The telling of the Christmas story through Mary’s eyes. Very sweet.

THE GLORY OF CHRISTMAS – Linda tells God’s story with man – with the fall of man, the birth of Jesus, His death on the cross, and the glory of His resurrection. Great for groups that invite their local community. People come to faith!

HOW TO TAME THE CHRISTMAS GRUMP– Humorous look at the stress of Christmas – and the real meaning of Christmas.

THE MIRACLE OF CHRISTMAS – Linda shares the heartaches of her life and tells how she learned to trust God in everything, and teaching her audience how to do the same – contains the telling of the Christmas story and the real miracle of Christmas- God redeeming man.

We are looking forward to hearing from you regarding Linda Evans Shepherd.

Linda Evans Shepherd – Arises Speakers