Teri Anderson

Teri Anderson is the wife of ruling elder Mark and the mother of adult children Todd (with new wife Monica) and Tobi Elizabeth. She has been involved in her church, Spring Meadows PCA, Las Vegas, NV, as Women’s Ministry President and Bible study leader.  She currently serves in the PCA as a CEP Women's Ministry Trainer and a Women's Advisor to the Covenant College Board of Trustees. Teri works full time as an Independent Mary Kay Sales Director.

Tara Barthel

Tara Barthel (www.tarabarthel.com), a former director at Peacemaker Ministries and “recovering lawyer,” currently serves her husband, Fred, and young daughters as a homemaker while regularly mediating and speaking on peacemaking. In between chasing Sophia, Ella, and her Golden Retriever, Tara published her first book: Peacemaking Women—Biblical Hope for Resolving Conflict (Baker Book House Co., 2005) and video series: The Peacemaking Church Women's Study—Living the Gospel in Relationships (2007). Tara’s next book is due for publication by Baker in 2012: Redeeming Church Conflicts.

Jean Bronson

Jean Bronson has been on staff at the Kirk since 2001, currently serving in Assimilation and as Women's Ministry Coordinator. Prior to her service at the Kirk, Jean was on staff at Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas serving as the Director of Preschool Ministries.  In this capacity she produced curriculum having written hundreds of children's lessons under the name "Big God for Little Hearts" (copyright).  At Park Cities, Jean also served in community outreach where she developed and implemented their first ESL (English as a Second Language) program reaching the neighboring Hispanic and Asian communities. In addition to her responsibilities as Women's Coordinator, she recently has taken on the role of Assimilation. Jean has been active in Bible Study Fellowship for 20 years serving in adult and children's leadership. She and her husband Bill have three adult children and two grandchildren.

Lydia Brownback

Lydia Brownback is the author of the On-the-Go Devotional series
(Crossway); Fine China Is for Single Women Too (P&R, 2003); and Legacy of Faith: From Women of the Bible to Women of Today (P&R, 2002) and a speaker at women’s conferences. Lydia is an editor at Crossway, and she blogs at The Purple Cellar. Previously she served as the writer-in-residence for Reverend Alistair Begg and as the broadcast media manager for Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, where she produced The Bible Study Hour radio program with James Montgomery Boice. Miss Brownback holds degrees from Syracuse University and Westminster Theological Seminary and resides in Wheaton, Illinois.

Dr. Bryan Chapell is president and professor of practical theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. His insightful Bible teaching can be heard daily via the Internet on Living Christ 360 (www.livingchrist360.com).

Dr. Tasha Chapman teaches education courses and serves as Dean of Academic Services at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Her current work focuses on leadership research, instructional design, and adult education. After spending the week with adult learners, she enjoys serving children and cognitively handicapped saints on Sunday mornings.  She and her husband, David, who also teaches at the seminary, delight to learn daily lessons in life and culture from their two teenage girls.  Tasha has 20 years of experience working with diverse ministries in the States and overseas.  Her experience includes university campus ministry, church women’s ministry, international women’s ministry, and consulting for youth ministry, children’s ministry, disability ministry and elementary schools.

Karen Hodge

Karen Hodge is a motivating and encouraging pastor’s wife and mother of two beautiful children.  She is having the time of her life serving alongside her husband Chris, Senior Pastor at Naperville Presbyterian Church.  Prior to their newest adventure, Chris and Karen have served at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL, Christ Covenant Church in Charlotte, NC, and planted Treasure Coast Presbyterian Church in Stuart, FL.  She also serves as National Trainer for the Women’s Ministries for the Presbyterian Church in America.  She has a heart for MNA (Mission to North America) and sits in an advisory role to the Standing Committee of MNA as well as serving the Church Planting Assessment Center.  It is from this perspective as wife, mother, leader, and friend that she offers insight from God’s word to women concerning how she and they can most effectively learn to enjoy and extend God’s glory.

Stephanie Hubach

Stephanie Hubach serves as Mission to North America’s Special Needs Ministries Director. Mission to North America (MNA) is an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).  She also currently serves on the Lancaster Christian Council on Disability (LCCD) and the Faith Community Leadership Advisory Board. Steph is the author of Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability (P&R Publishing, September 2006) and All Things Possible: Calling Your Church Leadership to Disability Ministry (Joni and Friends, August 2007). She has been published in byFaith magazine, Focus on the Family magazine, and Breakpoint online magazine. Steph and her husband Fred have been married for 27 years. They have two deeply loved sons: Fred and Tim, the younger of whom has Down syndrome.

Sarah Ivill

Sarah Ivill has spent the majority of her life in North Carolina and Georgia.  She has worked in a variety of settings, including retail, corporate, medical, social work and ministry worlds.  Sarah loves to play the piano, read, exercise and spend time with her family.  At the age of seventeen, Sarah knew God was calling her to Women’s Ministry.  Specifically, she felt called to give women the “meat of God’s Word” in order to deepen their love for Christ.  Sarah began her ministry to women at the age of eighteen when she became a discussion leader for a Bible study program.  During this time Sarah completed a Bachelor of Arts from UGA in Speech Communication with a minor in Religion.  Upon graduation, she enrolled at Dallas Theological Seminary where she completed her Master of Theology.  After graduating, Sarah served for three years as Assistant Director and then Director of Women’s Ministry in her local church.  Following her resignation to be a stay-at-home mom, the Lord used her experience in seminary and ministry to lead her back to her Presbyterian roots and the full embracing of the Reformed faith.  Sarah continues writing and teaching Bible Studies for the PCA.  She lives in the Charlotte area with her husband and two children.

Sherry Lanier and her husband Steve reside in Jackson, MS.  They helped start Redeemer Church PCA, an intentionally multi-cultural church in the heart of the Deep South, where Steve is the Assistant to Rev. Mike Campbell.  Sherry has a passion for God’s Word and discipleship and mentoring of young women.  She served on the staff of Youth for Christ for 23 years and now meets on a weekly basis with a number of young women from her church and teaches a weekly outreach Bible study for professional women.  She has been involved in the development of women’s ministries at several PCA churches and currently serves as the Women’s Advisory Sub-Committee (WASC) member for the Mid-South Region for PCA Women’s Ministry.  Sherry serves as a board member for several organizations including the local Center for Pregnancy Choices, an outreach to young women in unplanned pregnancies, the Neighborhood Christian Center, an outreach ministry to at-risk youth, and Mississippi Volunteer Organizations Assisting in Disasters (MS VOAD).  After volunteering in disaster response following Hurricane Katrina, she accepted a position on the staff of the PCA/Mission to North America Short Term Missions and Disaster Response Ministry.   She is excited about the growing vision of the PCA to reach every people group at home and around the world.  Her greatest joy is ministering alongside her husband, hosting people in her home, and being ‘Momsie’ to her precious grandchildren!

Debbe Mays

Debbe Mays currently serves on the staff of Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC as Counselor to Women and Families.  Debbe is a graduate of Trinity Theological Seminary and holds a Master’s degree in Counseling.  She has done work in mediation and conflict resolution through the Upstate Community Mediation Center, and has been a guest lecturer at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte on the subject of Christian Conciliation.  Debbe and her husband, Rod, are the parents of one married daughter who lives in Greenville.

Kathleen Buswell Nielson

Kathleen Buswell Nielson grew up in St. Louis and attended Wheaton College, where she earned a B.A. in English and French, sang in the Women's Glee Club -- and met her husband Niel.  She completed her Ph.D. in literature at Vanderbilt University, and has taught in the English departments of Vanderbilt, Bethel College (MN), and Wheaton.  In recent years, Kathleen has spent the majority of her professional life writing, teaching, and speaking on biblical books and topics, authoring numerous Bible studies as well as various articles and poems. A new book about studying the Bible will be published in early 2011. She has directed and taught Bible studies at several churches, and speaks at conferences and retreats nationally and internationally. College students remain a special focus and love;                                                                             

For over three decades Kathleen has been joyfully married to Dr. Niel Nielson, President of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Kathleen and Niel have three grown sons and two beautiful daughters-in-law. Kathleen loves any kind of family time. . . enjoying their adult children. . . anticipating a first grandchild. . . Covenant College events and relationships. . . being part of her home church's Bible study. . . travel. . . seeing the Church at work in other cultures. . . reading. . . walking. . . stopping to talk over a cup of coffee or tea.

Susan Phillis

Susan Phillis is the wife of Teaching Elder Jim and mother to Bradley, Bethany and Benjamin. She is a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Asheville, North Carolina, and works full-time teaching reading to struggling first and second graders. She has been the PresWIC president for Western Carolina and has served as the Women’s Advisory Sub-Committee representative for the Mid-Atlantic region. Her husband travels quite a bit so Susan keeps herself busy reading and cheering for the UNC Tar Heels!

Jen Seger lives in Franklin, Tennessee with her husband Steve and their children, Girault, Alden and Harley. Several years ago, Jen felt compelled to start a devotional prayer time with her fellow preschool teachers. She didn't find what she was looking for at stores.

Soon after, her daughter found a kitten who died a few days later. When thinking about all the emotions and choices surrounding that event, she discovered a spiritual lesson regarding the appeal of sin with little thought of the consequences. She wrote her thoughts down and shared them with her coworkers at their first prayer time. From then on, she wrote her own devotionals.

When teaching Bible study one summer, Jen closed with one of her devotionals. The Director of Women's Ministry at her church heard her and asked her to head up a new concept she had for online devotionals each week to all the women. That idea morphed into the weekly emails known as Women's Words.  Her first book, Routine Revelations, is a compilation of those writings.

Kathy Wargo grew up in Newark, Delaware, and attended the same church her whole life. In 2010, however, God opened a teaching opportunity for her husband, Keith, in Lynchburg, Virginia, where they now reside. Keith and Kathy have two children: Kevin, who is married to Wendy, and Kristen, a college senior, who is getting married in June 2011. (Let the wedding plans begin!) Over the years, Kathy served in her local church as kindergarten Sunday school teacher and Women’s Ministry president. Denominationally, she was a Women’s Advisory Sub-Committee representative, serving the women of the Northeast region for six years, and was a Covenant College board member for seven years. Keith and Kathy currently attend a new PCA church plant in Lynchburg and are anxious to see what opportunities God provides.