Resources: Speakers & Musicians
Check out web links below for speakers, writers and musicians whom we think you will appreciate. Also, here is a link to "Speakers & Musicians" on the National Women's site.
Musicians
Teri Fichtner
Teri lives on a ranch in Kamloops, BC with her chickens, cows, horses and various other orphaned animals that need homes (much to the chagrin of her very patient husband)! She is a school teacher at Kamloops Christian School where she teaches music and worship arts.
Kamloops Alliance is her church home and she is one of the worship leaders there. She loves to inspire others to step into authentic worship of their Heavenly Father by tasting and SEEING that He is good!
She believes that we are all called to a lifestyle or worship, acknowledging the abiding presence of God in every moment, but also believing that there is something truly transcendent in joining together in corporate worship that helps us fall in love with our Father who is the lover of our souls.
Contact Teri via email.
Becca Mabbett
Becca Mabbett currently resides in Kelowna, BC and serves as the Worship Pastor at Mission Creek Alliance Church. As well as leading worship at many different retreats and conferences, she is a recording artist and has played in many venues in Western Canada including the Calgary Stampede. She has opened and played alongside artists such as Brian Doerksen, Jacob Moon, Starfield, Amanda Cook, Corey Doak and many more. Although she enjoys performing, her heart and passion is for worship.
Contact Becca by email.
Valerie Ransom has been making music since the tender age of four. She has been passionate about it ever since. In 2011, Valerie's career started to blossom when Gaither pianist, Gordon Mote, took an interest in her and produced her debut album, "By Faith" in Nashville, TN.
Valerie's music is uplifting & shares the journey of faith that God has brought her on. On stage, she shares her passion for the Lord & her heart for reaching people with God's love. Listen to her sing Nothing But the Blood of Jesus.
Debbie Fortnum
Debbie Fortnum is a Wife, Mother of three, Worship Pastor, award-winning Recording Artist, Songwriter and Pianist and former Women’s Ministry Pastor from Chilliwack, BC.
She is Food for the Hungry Canada’s longest running Artist Associate and with seven albums, 17 various Canadian Award Nominations (including Female Vocalist of the Year, Inspirational Album of the Year, Children’s Album of the Year) and three Awards (Inspirational Album of the Year - “To Love and to Be Loved”, Instrumental Song of the Year - “Easter Morning Sunrise”, and Female Vocalist of the Year, 2006.)
Click on the link above to go to her Facebook page.
Speakers
To portray what happens when Jane steps in front of a microphone is to illustrate electricity. To call it “speaking” is one - dimensional! Audiences describe her speaking as mesmerizing, deeply spiritual, funny, vulnerable, dramatic, and personal.
“Disarmingly real,” as one reviewer put it, Jane's passion is to see people's hearts restored by the knowledge of the truth: that God absolutely delights in them, that God is crazy about them, that God would give everything on earth to make sure they know they are loved. The problem is, she says, “that we have lost our hearts. We are so busy stamping out fires and tending to a thousand urgencies every day, that we don't remember, don't notice, that our hearts have gotten trampled somewhere in all the stamping."
Grace Fox is an author and speaker whose passion is to connect the dots between faith and real life so her audiences might live the life God intends. Drawing from Scripture and from personal experiences learned while living on Canada’s rugged coastline, in urban U.S.A., and in Nepal’s Himalayan mountains, she uses the written page and the public stage to build Christ-based confidence in audiences worldwide.
Grace’s quick wit, real-life stories, and biblical insight keep her in constant demand as a speaker. Everywhere she goes, she exudes a contagious desire to know Jesus Christ intimately and to love His word. Click on the link above (name title) to go to her website.
Kelly Rader
Kelly Rader is Pastor of Women's Ministries at Yarrow Alliance Church and facilitates Gifted for Purpose (formerly Gifted & Called) and First Steps seminars under the banner of her new ministry, Defining Purpose.
Contact Kelly by email.
Devotional
Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp, author and speaker, is a farmer's wife with six children and writes a beautiful daily blog (or bundled weekly): A Holy Experience. She is the author of the book One Thousand Gifts. Click on the link above to go to her blog.
Joy Huebert
Joy Huebert, our Director, wrote a weekly devotional called Reflections of Joy. These can be found on our website under Articles. Go to our District page to see Joy's bio. Contact Joy by email.
