Amy Brooks
Philadelphia, PA and surrounding areas
Presentation Topics:
The Power of Prayer in the Pro-life Movement (the Spiritual Adoption Prayer);
Prayer Journaling*;
Considering Adoption to grow your family? What you need to know to get started.
Finding Yourself and Your Mission through Your Interests and Talents.
**How to “Be Yourself”; Who you are meant to be and why you are so important!
*Prayer Journaling is in the form of a hands on workshop! This is a fun faith and fellowship event!
**This topic is geared toward Middle Schoolers and can also be presented to high school students.
Audiences:
Parish Communities,
School Students;
Teachers on Retreat or Days of Reflection:
High School and College Pro-life groups;
Women’s Prayer Groups;
and couples interested in pursuing adoption.
Contact info:
Email Amy at [email protected]
Website: Prayer Wine Chocolate
Amy Cattapan
Chicago, Illinois
Presentation Topics:
- For students in grades 4 and up—“Be Not Afraid! God Has a Plan for Your Life, Too!” (an author talk at schools about how God called me to be a writer)
- For students in grades 4 and up—“How to Pack a Punch in the Plot of Your Story” (a 40-minute writing workshop)
- For writers and artists—“How to Tap Into Your God-Given Creativity” (a 90-minute workshop and presentation)
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For teachers, catechists, and youth ministers -“Instagram for Education and Evangelization”
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For teachers, catechists, and youth ministers—“Pinterest for Planning: A Gold Mine of Info”
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For writers—“Author Newsletters: Your Direct Marketing Plan”
Depends on topic, see above.
Contact:
Website link: www.ajcattapan.com
Kimberly Cook
Virginia (VA/DC/MD)
Jeanie Egolf
Columbus, Ohio
Presentation Topics:
First Communion pep talk The Real Presence and Molly McBride;
2. Vocations awareness,
3. Putting your faith to work: life as a Catholic author/illustrator.
Audiences: Grade school students.
Contact:
Website:
Molly McBride and the Purple Habit
Michelle Gelineau
Minneapolis, Minnesota Willing to travel in the U.S.
Presentation Topics:
Knowing Jesus Christ in a powerful, life-changing and personal relationship;
Learning about Christ’s love for you, the barriers that come between your relationship together,
Personal reflection, guided prayer with worship music
Contact:
Website:
www.givehim5.com
Michele Faehnle & Emily Jaminet
Columbus, Ohio but will travel anywhere
Presentation Topics:
- Divine Mercy for Moms: Sharing the Lessons of St. Faustina
- Our Friend Faustina: Lessons of Mercy for a Woman’s Life
- Families of Mercy: Living out the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy in family life
- A Day Hemmed in Prayer: Our Faith Journey as Catholic Women
- The Friendship Project: Deepening and Developing our Relationships
- Preparing Our Hearts for Christmas: Allowing Advent to Draw Us Closer To Jesus
- Balancing Technology and Family Life
Allison Gingras
Massachusetts. Will travel anywhere.
Presentation Topics:
Forgiveness and the Peace of Forgiving
Faith in the Every Day, Ordinary of Life
The Hope of Trusting in God
Seeking JOY!
Prayer and The Rosary for the Busy and Unfocused
Audience: Women of any age.
Contact Information:
Call or Text: 508-243-1133
Website: Allison Gingras: Reconciled to You
Julia Harrell
Washington, DC metro area; willing to travel pretty much wherever if travel expenses are covered. I do require some lead time for significant travel.
Christine Henderson
Kansas City area and willing to travel within an hour radius of this metro area.
Topics: Every presentation includes a captivating story about one of the glorious saints. The saint’s story is then applied to whatever topic I am asked to speak upon. Prayer life as a busy mom (Saint Zelie Martin), First Communion/Honesty (Blessed Imelda Lambertini), and Forgiveness (Saint Maria Goretti) are just some of the many topics I can present to your group. I speak to adults and/or children. Interested in a family talk/activity? How about an “Evening with the Saints” where I will tell a few saint stories the whole family will enjoy and also have a couple of fun saint activities to do?
Please contact me via email at: [email protected]
My website is: www.PlayingwiththeSAINTS.com
Sterling Jaquith
Boise, ID – willing to travel to the continental U.S. and maybe Canada
Ginny Kochis
Northern Virginia/DC Metro area; willing to travel within a one hour radius of Springfield, VA.
Topics:
Gifted and Twice Exceptional Homeschooling; Homeschooling; Catholic Homeschooling: Catholic/Christian Womanhood;
Motherhood; Building Connections through Family Literacy;
Writing Workshops and classes.
Virginia Lieto
Harrisburg, NC (willing to travel across US)
Melody Lyons
Northeast Ohio; willing to travel.
Presentation Topics:
My ideal audience is anyone open to the healing power of Jesus Christ in their lives… and perhaps even those who have never considered the possibility of Christ as Healer. My message resonates strongly with women who are struggling in the midst of the married vocation; but I have found that men are also extremely receptive for themselves, their families, and their wives.
Carmela Martino
Chicago; will travel up to 3 hours driving distance from Chicago.
Presentation Topics/Audiences:
Writing and the research process (students in grades 4 – 12)
What it takes to be a published author (Adults interested in learning about writing)
Contact information:
Website:
Jeanette Marie Pascua
Jeanette is a Creighton FertilityCare Practitioner
Riverside, California and am willing to travel a 3 hour radius for now.
Presentation Topics: NFP (the science and morality aspects); Theology of the Body; Sexual Morality.I also present a “10 practical ways to be Pro-life” talk.
Audiences: RCIA groups, Pre-Cana couples, Youth groups, Young adults and Marriage ministers.
Best way to contact me for now is through my website: http://www.restorefertilitycare.com/get-started
Samantha Povlock
Located: Chicago, open to travel anywhere in the U.S.
Presentation Topics:
Catholic feminism and ProLife feminsim
Ideal Audience: Young women (teens to young adults)
Contact me at [email protected]
Katie Sciba
Omaha, NE but travels nationwide for talks and retreats
Adrienne Thorne
San Diego area, willing to travel to Los Angeles area, possibly farther with travel compensation.
Presentation Topics
Catholic media literacy
Being a Catholic/Christian artist
Finding God in movies/TV,
Chastity in dating/marriage
Ideal Audience
Catholic young adults, but open to speaking to other audiences as well.
Contact:
Website link:
Lindsey West
Northern California and willing to travel anywhere in the United States.
Presentation Topics:
For middle schoolers and high schoolers, I present on prayer, living the faith practically for middle schoolers and teens, apologetic topics as a re-vert to the Catholic faith, and Theology of the Body and relationships.
For Youth Ministry, Faith Formation, and other Parish Leaders, I present
Going deeper with middle schoolers, best practices in retreats, partnering with parents in ministry, ecclesial integration of disability communities, and autism inclusion.
Audiences: Middle school and high school youth groups and retreatants. The second audience(s) include primarily Youth Ministers and their Core Teams, Faith Formation Coordinators and their Catechists, as well as parish staff (particularly for the ecclesial integration and autism inclusion pieces).
Website link: autism and disability blog – www.uniquelycatholic.org or personal, broad ministry interest – lindseyawest.wordpress.com
Cecilia Escobedo says
What a great group of ladies and amazing resources.
Amy says
Thanks Ceci!
Kirby Hoberg says
Thanks for putting these together Amy! It’s so nice to have a consolidated list. Occasionally someone will throw out an idea for an event that needs a speaker and going through individual websites can be a real time sink. This is super helpful!
Amy says
Thanks Kirby!!!
Jen says
Awesome ladies! Great list 🙂
Ginny says
Beautifully done! You are such a blessing to this community, Amy!
Amy says
Thank you Ginny!!!
Sara @ To Jesus Sincerely says
I hope to join the ranks someday!
Amy says
Definitely!