STEPPING INTO DESTINY SPEAKERS 2009

Linda Shepherd

Linda Evans Shepherd shares refreshing encouragement as she teaches audiences how to walk away from their worries and walk, hand in hand, with the Lord. Linda uses humor and drama as she shares her experiences and dramatic testimony. She says, "I love watching the audience pray with me as they give their burdens to God. It's like seeing everyone get an instant face lift as they lose 20 pounds each."

Linda is a best selling arthor, an international speaker, media personality, the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association founder and president of Right to the Heart, co-founder of Jubilant Press and publisher of Right to the Heart of Women Ezine.

She's been married twenty-eight years to Paul and has two teens. She's authored and coauthored over 20 books including Share Jesus Without Fear and The Pot Luck Club.

Gail Hayes

 

The Success & Empowerment Strategist™

When looking for a communicator who ignites the atmosphere with inspiration and contagious enthusiasm, you have but to look directly at Dr. Gail Hayes. Her up front, in your face, in your heart delivery style leaves audiences excited and challenged to act on visions and dreams unfulfilled.

Dr. Gail is the host of the Handle Your Business Girl Empowerment Zone on the Women@Work Channel of Webtv4women.and CEO of the Handle Your Business Girl Empowerment Network. She is the author of Daughters of the King, Boss Manager and 12 Ways to Walk in Destiny. She and her family currently live in NC.

Karen Porter

Author/Speaker

Karen Porter is a national retreat and seminar speaker, author/co-author of six books, and successful businesswoman.

Her newest book project is “I’ll Bring the Chocolate: Satisfying a Woman’s Cravings for Friendship and Faith.”

Karen is a frequent guest on regional and national radio/TV programs. She contributes to national magazines like Focus on the Family, Discipleship Journal, American Taste. She has also written curriculum for Lifeway Resources.

Business/Professional

Karen served as VP of International Marketing of a major food company in Texas for more than 30 years. In that position she traveled around the world and her varied experiences (including dinner with Fidel Castro) contribute to the richness and depth of her writing and speaking.

Karen founded kae creative solutions a communications consulting firm. Services include: concept, creation, and copy for corporations including annual reports, ad copy, direct mail, marketing materials. She also provides coaching for aspiring writers and speakers.

Personal

Karen’s marriage to George is her greatest achievement, but she’d love to talk to you about her five grandchildren! Karen’s a people person, plain and simple and you’re going to love to laugh with her and maybe even cry a little as she shares her joys and struggles.

 

Delia Knox

 

“She Doesn’t Walk, She Soars” - read New York’s Daily News article headline, describing the ministry of song in Delia. She is a true inspiration to all those that come in contact with her ministry, be it by television, radio, periodicals or in person. Her heart for people has led her into full-time ministry where she encourages and challenges those within the church and those outside. Whether in a conference or concert hall setting, she ministers with a strong message that God has placed on her heart through song and also shares with the gift of teaching. Her ministry has taken her to places throughout the United States, Africa, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Canada, the West Indies, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Curacao, and she has been a frequent guest at Dr. Myles Munroe’s Conferences in the Bahamas, as well as at David Huskin’s annual Covenant Congress where she first met her husband, Dr. Levy H. Knox. She has been seen via television and periodicals throughout the world.

She has been featured on the 700 Club, CBN, TBN, CTS, BET, Cornerstone and other television networks, as well as heard on the radio throughout the country and abroad. She is currently one of the co-hosts of a weekly television program called “A Different View”, which ministers the word of God dealing with real life issues, ministering hope and healing to viewers in over 170 countries worldwide via the TCT network which can also be seen on the DirectTV signal and affiliated stations throughout the world. She has also been seen co-hosting alongside her husband on TBN’s Praise the Lord. She co-labors with her husband in Mobile, AL at the Living Word Christian Center. Delia is the visionary of “3DWoman-Determination, Distinction & Destiny”, a ministry that ministers to the total woman, the Single Woman, the Wife and the Mother, encouraging women to be Determined to be set apart in Distinction, and walk in the Destiny as purposed by God. She is the Chief Editor of the recently released 3DExchange, a periodic magazine publication ministering to women.

Delia is a member of the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association (AWSA).

 

Rebekah Montgomery

Rebekah Binkley Montgomery has a heart for women like herself —
less-than-perfect but giving life their best efforts.

With 35 years experience as a Bible teacher, she has authored seven
books and many, many articles.

From 1972-1984, Rebekah worked in several evangelical churches
specializing in women’s and children’s ministries. She wrote and
developed sermons, plays, musicals, devotionals, and a wide variety of
teaching materials and articles until a group of family tragedies
forced curtailment of her activities.

As a freelance writer, she eventually became editor of 6 publications
simultaneously (1986-1992), Good Old Days, Good Old Days Special
Issues, Doll World, Doll Designs, and was the founding editor of Quick
& Easy Crafts and Doll Price Guide (1986-1992).
   
A well-known speaker, Rebekah hosted a collector’s show for a shopping
network.

Rebekah attended Christian Training Center , Fort Wayne , Fort Wayne
Bible College , Institute of Fine Arts , IU-Purdue, and American
Institute of Holy Land Studies (now Jerusalem University College ),
Jerusalem .

She lives and works as a disorganized freelance writer in Kewanee ,
Illinois , with her husband of 37 years, John. She has three children,
Mary, Joel, and Daniel and a grandson.

 

 

Betty Voshage

 

Betty is our beloved conference director and resides in Austin, Texas.

Vonda Skelton

Vonda Skelton Bio

 

Vonda Skelton has a heart for women and their families, and it shows through her messages are always described as entertaining, powerful, and insightful. Her women’s book, Seeing through the Lies: Unmasking the Myths Women Believe, includes discussion questions and “takes a hilarious journey through all things female as we search for truth in a counterfeit world.” She also writes a children’s mystery series, The Bitsy Burroughs Mysteries. As one who tries—and often fails—to be like Christ, Vonda is thankful God can take her messes and use them for His glory!