Shaunti Feldhahn

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 9/24/2006 8:00 AM

I just finished a three-day women’s retreat at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. About 175 women drove from Fellowship Church in Knoxville, about an hour and half away, to beautiful Lake Junaluska, which is a giant United Methodist Retreat Center of a bunch of different hotels, inns, cottages, and different buildings all around the beautiful lake. These women were ready to have some fun and we sure did.

We had a fantastic Friday night session and we talked about the first three subjects in my book, ‘For Women Only’, about how men need respect, how men secretly often feel a bit insecure and need affirmation, and about how guys feel a real compulsion to be the provider for the family. It ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 9/16/2006 8:00 AM

Jeff and I flew in to Colorado on September 13th. This was a very big week for us. We had dinner on the night of September 13th with Steve Cobb, the President of WaterBrook; and Don Jacobson, the outgoing President of Multnomah.

The dinner was an off the record meeting and chance to meet this new man who is the President of the new publishing company that we are going to be working with. It was both a terrific dinner and terrific meeting. Steve Cobb is a good guy, and as sad as I am to be leaving the previous Multnomah family, I was very glad to connect with Steve so well.

The next day on the 14th, Jeff and I attended a day long meeting at the WaterBrook offices in Colorado Springs. We spent the whole day in their conference room with this giant floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the start of the Colorado Rockies mountain ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 8/19/2006 8:00 AM

This morning I spoke to North Lanier Baptist Church and had to get up really early, having gotten back at midnight the night before. This morning I had to head up way North of Atlanta into the Cumming, Lake Lanier area to speak. It was a fantastic women’s event.

This church hadn’t really had a whole lot of women’s ministries going on officially for years. So the new Women’s Ministry Director, Debbie Licona and her husband, a newly-hired pastor, asked me to kick off the event to help them re-start the women’s ministry at the church. They made it into a big to-do; they led worship, had breakfast for about 100 women, and then I did my talk on understanding men. We had a fantastic question and answer time afterwards, and everybody was very intrigued with the idea that we are ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 8/18/2006 8:00 AM

Last night, Jeff and I spoke on “For Men Only” at NorthStar Church in Acworth, which is West of Kennesaw and in the Northwest suburbs of Atlanta. It was a long drive; an hour and a half drive each way from where we leave in the northeast suburbs. Anyone who knows Atlanta traffic knows that it’s not easy to drive to a Friday night event on the other side of town! 

But there were two good sides to this. One was that it was almost like a mini date for me and Jeff. We’ve been so busy this week, I’ve had four local events this week, so we haven’t had much time together. So, we had almost three hours in the car together to be able to catch up. And of course I had to avoid the temptation of s ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 8/14/2006 8:00 AM

Today is the 14th of August and it was a fun day. It was the first day of First Grade for my daughter. After we picked her up from school we got her into her ballet clothes then her daddy took her off to her first day of ballet practice. I hopped in the car and headed down for an hour and a half drive to Peachtree City to do a women’s event at the First Baptist Church there.

It was sort of a “ladies’ night out” that was the kick off to their Fall Women’s Ministry season. There were 250 women in a room ready to have a good time with coffee and dessert. They had everything from little mini eclairs to little mini cheese cakes and tarts. When I got up on stage the first thing I said was that it ... Read More »

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 »