2010 International Conference

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Priscilla Shirer is a BIBLE teacher. Through the expository teaching of the Word of God to women, her desire is to see women not only know the uncompromising truths of Scripture intellectually but experience them practically by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Priscilla is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master's degree in Biblical Studies. She has been a conference speaker for major corporations, organizations, and Christian audiences across the United States and the world.

Priscilla is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master's degree in Biblical Studies. She has been a conference speaker for major corporations, organizations, and Christian audiences across the United States and the world.

In 1993, Priscilla's speaking ministry began while she was in college. Although her plan was to receive her degree in radio and television and go on to be a television news anchor, God had other plans. While interning at a Christian radio station in Houston, she began to receive invitations to do Bible studies at small women's events in the area. As an 18 year old freshman, she went to these events and shared the simple truths of Scripture that she was studying in her own personal time with the Lord.

In 1997, while in seminary, she received a request to facilitate a Bible study at Ziglar Training Systems in Dallas, Texas. It was that day that she met international motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, who became not only her friend but also her mentor. She was asked to come on board as one of the company's motivational speakers and corporate trainers. In this capacity, she has provided training and inspiration to hundreds of companies and their employees across the country and abroad. Still, her desire was simply to teach the Word of God to women.
Priscilla is now in full-time ministry to women across the country and the world. She is the author of A Jewel In His Crown, A Jewel In His Crown Journal, And We Are Changed: Transforming Encounters With God, He Speaks To Me and Discerning the Voice of God (Moody Press). The Lord has incorporated her love for television into her ministry by allowing her to author five video driven Bible studies with Lifeway Christian Resources. They are He Speaks To Me: Preparing to Hear From God, Discerning the Voice of God: How to Know When God Speaks, Can We Talk, Anointed, Transformed & Redeemed: A study of David and ONE in Million: Journey to your Promise Land.

Priscilla is married to her best friend, Jerry, and the couple has three sons: Jackson (7 yrs) Jerry Jr. (5 yrs) and Jude (1). They live in Dallas, Texas.
Jerry and Priscilla have founded Going Beyond Ministries through which the message of God’s desire for a passionate love relationship with His children is boldly proclaimed. Going Beyond Revivals for women occur across the country several times a year.

LEAD WORSHIPER:

Kari Jobe
Young girls dream about becoming lawyers, fashion designers, nurses or mothers. Kari Jobe knew at 10 that she would be a worship leader.

Raised in a Christian home with a father who was a traveling minister, Kari began singing in church when she was only 3. She remembers her mother playing worship music in the house while growing up and even recalls the constant tug inside her toward worship. "I remember hearing a worship song that applied perfectly to a family that I knew and I knew then that I wanted to write songs like that for hurting people... songs that someone could speak to the Lord when they can't find the words."

Through high school and college, Kari watched God set the path before her as she began leading worship in various places. She spent time studying at Oral Roberts University, Christ For The Nations and Dallas Baptist University, where she finished her psychology and Pastoral Ministries degree. After graduation, she was hired by the Southlake, Texas-based Gateway Church (Dallas), her home church of six years. It was an opportunity that caught her off guard. "I thought, 'Are you sure? Me be a pastor?' But once again God was right on. I saw how God networked my life through ORU, Christ For The Nations and Dallas Baptist, giving me the tools to not only be a worship leader but a pastor."

A featured worship leader on Gateway Worship projects, Living for You and Wake Up the World, Kari Jobe releases her self-titled debut through Gateway Create Publishing and Integrity Music on February 10, 2009. Produced by Ed Cash, the album contains a collection of worship pop/folk songs written by Kari Jobe as well as co-writes with worship leaders/songwriters Chris Tomlin, Paul Baloche, Mia Fieldes, Ed Cash and Klaus Kuehn.

The album Kari Jobe features new versions of the popular "Revelation Song," "No Sweeter Name" and "My Beloved" in addition to new songs of worship birthed from her life and journals. The deeply personal "You Are for Me" is one of Kari's favorites. "This song is gut-wrenching for me. There are times you are so broken that all you can do is sing over yourself with words like, 'God is for me.' But I believe it is one song that people can use to remember that God is for us. So who can be against us?"

Songs of intimate musings are balanced with songs created for shouting. The buoyant "Everyone Needs a Little" bubbles with expressions of love, joy and hope for all and "I'm Singing" conveys a simple happiness of heart in vocal praise to God.

"This album is about hope and life; it's about lifting the broken off the floor and singing love over them," says Kari. "The songs create intimate moments and outward shouting, and it's my hope that these songs find the broken and lift them to a place of praise to God for what He's done."

Whether leading worship at Gateway or in other settings around the country, for Kari, the work of ministry always comes back to people. "I am moved by people's lives and stories, and I am amazed by who God is and who He says that we are. Music becomes a way to minister to people in times of trouble, to lead them to the feet of Jesus who can bring peace, life, hope and healing."