This week-preaching and evangelism

Our Houston trip was amazing and I hope to blog on it soon. In the meanwhile, here is a little info on this week. I have preaching lectures all week and preach a couple of times myself. The exception is tomorrow, we have a guest lecturer (see below).

Most importantly-Today is Will's birthday! He turns 9! I should have a picture or two to post tomorrow from tonight's party!

REBECCA MANLEY PIPPERT

Recognized nationally and internationally as a prominent speaker and author, Rebecca Pippert is founder of Salt Shaker Ministries: a teaching/training ministry in evangelism.

Having ministered extensively around the world, Becky has a global perspective on being a sensitive and effective witness for Christ whether in the Post-modern West or the Global South. She was named the Senior Advisor for Global Evangelism by Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism. And the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (a global ministry to University students) recently named Becky their Senior Trainer in Evangelism and Seeker Studies for all of Europe.

Becky is the author of nine books that include the modern classic, Out of the Salt Shaker, which was named recently by Christianity Today as one of the books that has most influenced Christian thought in the past 50 years. Her book, Hope Has Its Reasons, addresses the common questions held by seekers and skeptics about faith, and her book, A Heart for God, addresses themes of how God uses suffering and trials to produce character and faith. Her 6 volume book set: Salt Shaker Resources: An Evangelism Tool Kit, won the award for Best Evangelism Resource for 2003 and the first book in that series, Talking About Jesus Without Sounding Religious, won Best Evangelism Book for 2003 by Outreach Magazine.

Described by American author Charles Colson as one of the “liveliest and most effective communicators of the gospel in the world today,” Becky has spoken extensively to churches through out North America and she has given conferences in Latin America, Southeast and Central Asia, India, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. For 2 years she was a monthly columnist for the Christian Korean magazine Salt and Light and she is an Advisory board member for the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, IL. Becky has been a frequent speaker to the LPGA golf pros, and a guest on Moody Bible Radio Broadcasts and Janet Parshall’s America!

Becky received an honorary doctorate and holds a B.A. and M.A. with High Honors in English literature from the University of Illinois. She has done advanced study at the University of Barcelona, Spain and Harvard University.

She is married with two college aged children and she and her husband reside in Louisville, Kentucky.