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SPEAKERS
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Steve Arterburn
Steve Arterburn is the founder and chairman of New Life Ministries and host of the # 1 nationally syndicated Christian
counseling talk show "New Life Live" heard and watched by millions on over 180 radio stations nationwide in addition to
Sirius XM Satellite radio and now seen on television on the Family Net and NRB networks. Steve is also the founder of
the Women of Faith conferences attended by over 4,000,000 people. He also serves as a teaching pastor at Heartland
Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Steve is a nationally known public speaker and has been featured in national media venues such as Oprah, Inside Edition,
Good Morning America, CNN Live, The New York Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, ABC World News Tonight, and
ironically in GQ magazine and Rolling Stone magazine. In August 2000, Steve was inducted into the National Speakers
Association's Hall of Fame.
Steve is a best selling author of books such as Every Man's Battle, Lose It for Life, Healing Is A Choice and his
latest books, Is This the One? and Walking Into Walls. With over 7,000,000 books in print he has been writing about
God's transformational truth since 1984. He has been nominated for numerous writing awards and won three Gold Medallions
for writing excellence. Along with Dave Stoop, he edited and produced The Life Recovery Bible.
Steve has degrees from Baylor University and The University of North Texas as well as two honorary doctorate degrees
and is currently completing his doctoral studies in Christian Counseling.
Steve resides with his family in Fishers, Indiana.
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Marilyn Meberg
At first glance, you might think Marilyn was a serious, wise, well-educated counselor. (And you'd be right!) But she's
also prone to break into giggles at the slightest provocation and tell stories you'll still be laughing over years from now.
With the weight of not one, but two Masters' degrees (in English and psychology) behind her, Marilyn tackles life's most
difficult subjects with aplomb. Her biblically based brand of common sense and good humor is cherished by audiences across
the continent. Marilyn claims California as home but has been on what she calls an "extended visit" to Texas since 2005.
So here's the backstory on this slightly wacky woman: As a freshman student at Seattle Pacific University, Marilyn met Ken
Meberg. She fell in love; he too was wacky. Five days after graduating with a degree in English, she married that wonderful
man and they moved to Orange County, California.
They now have two grown children: Jeff and his wife Carla who live in San Clemente, California and Beth and her husband Dave
who live in Marion, Ohio. Jeff and Carla have dogs and cats; Beth and Dave have two boys. Marilyn refers to them all as
grandchildren; some furry, some not.
One of Marilyn's most painful losses has been the death of Ken who died of pancreatic cancer twenty-two years ago.
Dr. Meberg was kind, brilliant and fun; a great dad and husband. She believes these kinds of losses change us but need not
destroy us. Though life is not the same as it was before Ken's death, Marilyn believes God's plan is to redeem all of our
circumstances and to provide new strength and purpose in it all.
Speaking to audiences around the country for over 30 years, Marilyn spent 17 years as a core speaker at the Women of Faith
conferences and was one of the original four speakers when the organization began in 1996. Drawing from her background in
psychology, Marilyn enjoys helping audiences understand themselves better, understand God better and gain a life-changing
understanding of how He created us for a relationship with Him that is rooted in love and grace.
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Luci Swindoll
Luci is a world-traveling adventurer who never stops learning, loving and living life to the fullest. She was an executive
with Mobil Oil Corporation, with whom she worked for thirty years; a singer with the Dallas Opera for fifteen years;
VP of Public Relations with Insight for Living for five years and a speaker with Women of Faith for sixteen years.
She is the author of 14 books.
Luci is single and lives in Frisco, Texas in a home that's part art gallery, part library, part studio…and all Luci.
And by the way - she's an avid cheerleader for her two wonderful brothers (Orville and Chuck),
who have been in public Christian ministry fifty years.
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Bruce Carroll
Almost three decades ago, an unknown San Antonio boy in blue jeans named Bruce Carroll left on a
journey that helped define what it meant to be a Christian singer/songwriter. Since then, Bruce has
recorded nine best-selling solo projects, sold more than two million albums, won two Grammy Awards,
seven Dove Awards, and enjoyed 11 No. 1 songs. Bruce's unique ability to tell a story through a
simple song helped make songs like "Sometimes Miracles Hide," "Above and Beyond," "Who Will Be Jesus"
and "The Great Exchange" touch hearts and change the lives of millions all over the world.
Today, Bruce continues to set trends and change lives in ways that only God could inspire. As the
Director of Arts and Worship at Hope Church in Memphis, Tennessee, Bruce leads a 10-member band and
6,000+ people a week into worship. And if that weren't enough to keep him busy, Bruce finds the time
to cast the vision for The Grove, one of the most innovative music labels in the world, on which he
is the flagship artist. Across the hall from his label's offices is a state-of-the-art recording studio
that is more advanced than most you'd find on Music Row. When he's not leading worship, you can usually
find him in the studio noodling on a new song idea or mentoring the next young artist with a guitar,
a dream, and a heart for Jesus.
Just as he did back in his blue jeans and acoustic guitar days, Bruce Carroll continues to find new and
innovative ways to use music to reach the un-churched for Christ.
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Speakers/artists lineup and schedule subject to change.
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