2024 | Gail Howitt – Thy Kingdom Come
Gail Howitt was born and raised in Hanover Park, Illinois. She currently lives in Glendale, Arizona and has been the Ministry Coordinator for women and youth at King of Kings PCA for 10 years. Gail has a Bachelors of Science in History from Illinois State University and is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Missional Theology. She has authored 2 books to date; Refuge and Boanerges (YA fiction). Gail has been married 38 years to her husband Doug. She is Mom to four wonderful children and Grandma to seven amazing grandchildren. Gail’s passion is to see women grow in Biblical knowledge, application and service in the local Church. She is regularly featured in the podcast, Not Our First Rodeo.
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2023 | Sarah Ivill – The Covenantal Life
Sarah Ivill (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary) has been leading, teaching or writing women’s Bible studies since she was eighteen. She has served at the Howard G. Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership, in Bible Study Fellowship, and as Director of Women’s Ministry in the local church, among other leadership positions. Sarah is the author of several Bible studies and books, including The Covenantal Life: Appreciating the Beauty of Theology and Community. She is also a contributing blogger for enCourage (a blog of the PCA Women’s Ministries), and has a regular blog, The Haven, with the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Sarah continues writing and teaching Reformed Bible studies for women, and speaking at women’s retreats and conferences. A member of Christ Covenant Church (PCA), Sarah lives with her husband and four children in Matthews, North Carolina.
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Sarah Ivill – Session A Sarah Ivill – Session B Sarah Ivill – Session C Sarah Ivill – Q & A
2022 | Barbara Duguid – The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
Barbara Duguid holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology, which she used as a missionary in a hospital laboratory in Liberia before marrying her husband of 30 years, Iain. Iain and Barb have 6 children, and have lived in Africa, England, Mississippi, California and Pennsylvania where Barb has served alongside Iain as he worked as a seminary professor, college professor, and church planter. Barb has provided leadership in children’s and women’s ministries for over 25 years, including leading studies of The Letters of John Newton. From this material, Barb was inspired (and forced!) to write Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in our Weakness. In recent years, Barb began writing liturgy for her church, out of which was born Prone to Wander: Prayers of Confession and Celebration. Barb also holds an advanced counseling certificate from the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF). Barb has counseled for many years in her church. Barb and Iain will soon be moving to Glenside, PA, where Iain has been invited to join the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary to teach in the Old Testament department. They will also be a planting an Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) church with their two oldest sons.
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| Session 1 Barbara Deguid | Session 2 Barbara Deguid | Session 3 Barbara Deguid |
2021 | Gail Howitt – Reflections on a King
Gail Howitt was born and raised in Hanover Park, Illinois. She’s been married 34 years to her husband Doug. She is Mom to four wonderful children and Grandma to four amazing grandsons. She currently lives in Glendale, Arizona and is the Ministry Coordinator for women and youth at King of Kings PCA. Her passion is to see women grow in Biblical knowledge, application and service in the local Church. She is regularly featured in the podcast, Not Our First Rodeo.
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| Session 1 Gail Howitt | Session 2 Gail Howitt | Session 3 Gail Howitt |
2020 | Aimee Byrd – Women in the Bible, Women in the Church
Aimee Byrd resides in her hometown in Frederick, MD with her husband, Matt, and three children. She currently has one in college, high school, and middle school. This vocation has improved her crisis management skills, but not so much her chauffeuring ones.
At the beginning of her married life, Aimee co-owned a coffee shop in downtown Frederick, MD called The Mudd Puddle. Aimee has since repented of her coffee snobbery and is willing to drink bad coffee for a friend. She still tries to use her mad barista skills in hospitality at home.
Aimee is the author of Housewife Theologian, Theological Fitness, No Little Women, and Why Can’t We Be Friends. She blogs at www.housewifetheologian.com for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Along with Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt, Aimee is a co-host of the Alliance podcast The Mortification of Spin.
When Aimee is not running her kids around, cheering them on at their sporting events, hitting things in her strike fit and kickboxing classes, or hiding away with a book, she enjoys the opportunities she has been given as a speaker. [from http://www.mortificationofspin.org/mos/about-mos]
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2019 Rondi Lauterbach – Hungry: Learning to Feed Your Soul with Christ.
2018 | Karen Smart – Rooted in the Love of Christ
Eph. 2:4-10 & 3:14-21
Karen Smart grew up in NE Ohio, and was led to Christ by her older brother during high school. She attended Purdue University and met her husband, Bob, in a campus ministry. Karen & Bob served the Navigators before Bob became lead pastor of Christ Church (PCA) 24 years ago.
Karen is a mother of five married children and grandmother of twelve grandchildren. She has taught women’s bible studies, discipleship groups, and with Bob at marriage and family conferences. Karen is a retired schoolteacher, and now enjoys traveling to see children and grandchildren.
February 2017 | Courtney Doctor – From Garden to Glory
Author Courtney Doctor spoke to us from her book From Garden to Glory at our annual Women’s Conference that took place February 2017. According to the book description at www.courtneydoctor.org/from-garden-to-glory/, “The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is a beautiful, epic, and cohesive story. It is the story of how our eternal God is on a grand mission to redeem and restore his rebellious and wayward children. But it is not a story meant to merely inform us. The story itself is meant to transform us and invite us to participate in this glorious redemption of all things!”
Courtney Doctor received an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2013 and currently serves as the Director of Women’s Ministry at the Kirk of the Hills in St. Louis, MO. Her desire is to study, teach, and apply well the word of God. She is a Bible teacher, a conference and retreat speaker, and the author of From Garden to Glory; a Bible Study on the Bible’s Story (CDM 2016). Courtney has a love for education and is on the board of directors for Providence Classical Christian Academy in St. Louis as well as the advisory board for Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA. Her husband, Craig, is also on staff at the Kirk of the Hills as the Pastor of Men’s Ministry and Administration. They have four children—Austin, Bradon, Shelby, and Rebecca—and two amazing daughter-in-laws—Ruth and Jordan.
Conference Audio
| Session One – God’s Mission | Session Two – Jesus’ Mission | Session Three – Our Mission |
February 2016 – Side by Side: Living, Loving and Connecting as Women of God
Kathi Bishop, Vice-President and co-founder of Biblical Counseling of Arizona, along with Vicki Diemert, a counselor for Biblical Counseling of Arizona came to share how to come alongside each other to live, love and connect as women of God.
Vicki Diemert
Counselor at Biblical Counseling of AZ
Kathi Bishop
VP and co-founder of Biblical Counseling of AZ
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| Title | Speaker |
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| Gospel Fundamentals and Connecting | Kathi Bishop |
| Responsibility and Inadequacies | Vicki Diemert |
| Effectiveness | Vicki Diemert |
| Titus 2 Model and Primary Resources | Kathi Bishop |
February 2015 – Extravagant Grace
Author and Speaker Barbara R. Duguid
Barbara Duguid, Author and Speaker
Author, Counselor and Speaker, Barbara Duguid speaks from her book Extravagant Grace in a four part series. Within the 4 sessions, Duguid addresses difficult questions such as What if growing in grace is more about humility, dependence, and exalting Christ than it is about defeating sin?, Why do Christians—even mature Christians—still sin so often? Why doesn’t God set us free? We seem to notice more sin in our lives all the time, and we wonder if our progress is a constant disappointment to God. Where is the joy and peace we read about in the Bible?
Barbara R. Duguid is a counselor and ministry assistant at Christ Presbyterian Church (ARP) in Grove City, Pennsylvania, where she crafts the weekly liturgy. She is a pastor’s wife and the mother of six children, and she holds an advanced certificate in biblical counseling from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
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2014 – We Are the Beloved and the Fullness of God
Speaker Hope Blanton
Hope Blanton, Speaker
We Are the Beloved and the Fullness of God, a study on the book of Ephesians, challenges how the Lord calls us and sees us as His beloved. That He wants us to hide in this truth, instead of all the other places and things that our heart wants to hide in. The call of the beloved is for a deep, safe relationship with him and a call to prayer.
Hope, her husband Ray, and their three children Cana, Thea, and Nias moved to Lincoln in July of 2011 for Ray to get a PhD at University of Nebraska. Prior to becoming the Women’s Ministry Equipper at Redeemer in Lincoln, Hope spent years counseling at-risk youth in Philadelphia, providing postpartum and breastfeeding education to new moms in Austin, and staying home with her three children. Born in southern Illinois, Hope spent most of her childhood in a suburb of Dallas later attending Texas Christian University and Temple University getting a bachelor’s and masters in clinical social work. Along the way she has lived in five different states, four different college residence halls (three of which when she was married with children), and helped run a church youth group while also being the church janitor.
2013 – Living a Leviticus Life
Author and Speaker Britta Lafont
Britta Lafont, Author and Speaker
Obedience is hard, because our hearts of flesh often rebel against discipline. But since we are called, by God, to holiness, how can we ever please Him? Jesus summarizes the Law as this: we must love God and love our neighbor. But He also makes it possible to do this. God’s love, poured out through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus makes holiness and obedience possible for us. After His Spirit comes to dwell within us, His boundless grace and love grow in us a gratitude that provokes a reciprocal response: we love because He first loved us. Obedience then can become our love offering.
Britta Lafont is a sojourner. She was a military kid and is a military wife, now living in the high desert of Arizona and far, far from her New Orleans family. She happily homeschools and one of her favorite hobbies is snuggling on the couch reading history and literature with 12-year-old Gracie and 10-year-old Josh. Britta and her husband Scott recently celebrated their 20th Anniversary. Britta writes about the intersection of God’s Word and her world at Britta Lafont ~ Everyday Holiness (brittalafont.com).
