Shaunti Fledhahn

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 7/12/2006 8:00 AM

Jeff and I flew to the International Christian Retail Show in Denver on Sunday night. This is an annual event in different cities where all the Christian publishers come out and set up huge exhibit booths in this massive convention center, and Christian booksellers walk around and investigate the new books that are being released in the next six months.

It’s a time when everyone in the Christian publishing industry is all in one place at one time, and it’s normally one of the most fun times of the year for me. But this year was a little different. We found out about three days before ICRS that Multnomah, our beloved publishing company, is being sold. We got a call right beforehand, late at night, from Don Jacobson, the current owner of ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 6/20/2006 8:00 AM

What a fun evening we had with a group of 850 women! My assistant, Vance (yes, she is a woman!), and I traveled up to the Memphis area so I could speak at a Ladies’ Night Out at the verrrrry large Bellevue Baptist Church. I realized as soon as I got there that this church knows how to have a good time! 

Instead of a sedate cheese and crackers reception or some such thing, they turned the giant church’s courtyard into one big outdoor smoothie party! Let’s just say that I had one sugared-up group of ladies in the audience. I really enjoyed meeting Marge Lenow, the church’s women’s ministry director in this picture with me. She and her team clearly hav ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 6/12/2006 8:00 AM

Well, friends, this is a great place to start my blog. I joined 12 other female authors that have developed women’s Bible studies for Lifeway at the annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention. We spent the day meeting interested women’s ministry leaders and explaining our studies – and that was fun and productive. 

But for me, by far the most important time - one of my most special times of the year, in fact - was the evening spent with the other authors. The Lifeway staff reserved two tables for dinner in a beautiful courtyard restaurant at the hotel, just for us, and said, “We’re leaving now! We want you to have a chance to get to know each other!” 

Many of us had met before, but as the newbie in the group it was the first t ... Read More »