Sister CANDIDA SULLIVAN
The Day I realized I Could Have Died
Candida Sullivan is an award-winning author, speaker, and overcomer of Amniotic Band Syndrome. She was born with a rare condition called Amniotic Band Syndrome, which affects all of her limbs. As a little girl, Candida prayed for God to heal her hands every night. When she jerked her hands from beneath the covers every morning, she was disappointed that God had ignored her prayer. All she wanted was to be like everyone else, but God had something extraordinary planned for her. He blessed her to overcome her scars and all the challenges they caused her and write about them to help others overcome similar challenges. Candida writes books, attends schools, and shows up on social media daily to share encouragement and inspiration and use her circumstances to give others hope. She openly shares her scars and struggles and how God blesses her to overcome them all to glorify Him.
Sister Tere Schwartzbart
Tere Schwartzbart Ambassador for Christ to the Nations
Tere Samayoa Schwartzbart always liked art. She never thought that the time would come for her to paint though. Every time she visited a gallery she would think "Oh, just don't dream. It will never happen." At some point, Schwartzbart felt like God was saying "Stop dreaming. Go!" So, she went. She enrolled in a community college majoring in art. She had been out of school for many years and had never picked up a paint brush before. Many dreams have come true since that time. Tere was welcomed as a visiting artist at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She opened Galeria Bezalel here in the states where several emerging artists made their first sales. Most recently, her art was exhibited by invitation for a broad international audience at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum winning three gold awards from Chairman Katsu Shimmin and she held a private solo exhibit for ambassadors and diplomats from 13 countries at the El Salvador Embassy in Japan at the invitation of Salvadoran Ambassador Diego Dalton. Although Schwartzbart’s mission is evolving, it is clear that she has been called by God to paint unusual tropical fruits, flowers and landscapes from her native El Salvador and to introduce the world to them. The response from collectors has transcended “mere” art to make her colorful portfolio a bit of a conversation piece in the global cultural dialogue, building bridges among El Salvador, the US and Asia. In Tere’s own words, “You never know what God may be waiting to do if you will just take the first step!” See INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST: TERE SCHWARTZBART by Nina Gillespie Day Williamson and Rodney Allen Rippy at https://www.youtube.com/live/kRYQrDYCeKg?si=xLHDBwV-eLYJ9lM6
brother Cristobal Krusen
brother Cristobal Krusen
brother Cristobal Krusen
Cristóbal Krusen is the founder and president of Messenger Films. He has worked as a writer/director of feature film and television since 1988, helming numerous productions overseas. Working in multiple languages, Cristóbal is known for a poetic cinematic style, and the ability to draw intense and intimate performances from actors. He is best known for Final Solution, More Than Dreams, ¿Con Quién Te Vas?, Undaunted, Sabina K. and his latest film, Let Me Have My Son. .
Sister Hannah Faulkner
brother Cristobal Krusen
brother Cristobal Krusen
"How can a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed according to His Word" (Psalm 119:9). Why do we wait to be sexually intimate until marriage? Well first because God says so and God's design/order for things such as purity is there for a purpose; for us to experience true freedom.
However, purity is more than just waiting until you are married to be intimate with your spouse. Purity encompasses mind, body, and soul. In order for us to remain pure, we have to guard our hearts from pornography, sexually explicit movies, and even some sexual romance novels. As a young woman, I believe one way to protect OUR hearts/minds and our brothers/sisters in Christ is the way WE individually dress. Ultimately, our daily decisions should revolve around this central question, "Does this honor and glorify God?".
SISTER CAE CORDELL
Speaking Out For Change
Author, minister, counselor and consultant for the sexually abused and the domestic violence victim. I have been in the ministry 60 preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the soul and the hope of mankind. I have shared my life story of sexual abuse as child and enduring rape and domestic violence as a wife. I share my story so other may find hope, freedom and dare to name their perpetrator. There is freedom and healing from being abused. It takes time, effort and the forgiveness of yourself, recognizing you, as the victim, have committed no sin. Your job is to forgive yourself and turn over to God the sin of the rapist for him to deal with. We must recognize rape is a sin against Holy Ghost and no sin is laid at the victim door. Domestic violence is a sin against Jesus for God tells the church to treat their members as Jesus treat the church. Jesus has yet to beat the church, yet men persist in beating their wives. We also must recognize there are women who chose to usurp the place of a man in God's design beating and abusing the man. Both the abusive man and woman are abusing the plan of God's Holy place in doing so. Women or men do not and must be abused, raped and use. It is a sin that is condemned in Roman 1:18-32. Please feel free to read my life story in Red Bird Phoenix and The Hat man and the consulting book, When Forgiveness Isn't Enough.