Shaunti Feldhahn

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/25/2008 1:55 PM

Jeff and I dropped the kids off with their grandparents, my parents, and flew to Fresno, California in the middle of a heat wave. Fresno is in the desert in California and when we got off the plane, it was 111 degrees Fahrenheit, and we went to this absolutely fabulous Church called ‘The Wall’ in Fresno to do a marriage conference than actually really a relationship conference together.

The thing that was so cool about this Church is that the average age in this Church as I think has over thousand people in it; the average age of the full Church is 25; the average Christian is 25 and that is so exciting to us because even though we are a few older than that. Aha! Actually a more than a few years older than that, we hear all the time from people who hear the findings about how men are wired or about the women are wired and they say “Aha! We wish that have been able to hear that’s right at the beginning of our marriage or how we wish we have been able to hear 1:28 we are dating or s ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/23/2008 8:00 AM

My family spent the weekend camping in the beautiful Tennessee mountains, because it was halfway to Nashville where I was invited to speak on Monday at the GMA Week. This is the week every year where the Gospel Music Association and all the Christian broadcasters come together to have their annual convention. In the exhibit hall they have presentations on developing their business as broadcasters and get to hear new bands and old ones and generally reconnect.

So it is a lot like the big week in July of every year where the Christian publishing industry comes together. I was expecting to feel somewhat at home, even though I had never been to a GMA Convention before. But I was surprised. It was full of energy and vigor and interest, but wow, is it different from the Christian publishing industry. In the publishing world, you have lots of people in business suits and dresses and people in their 30s, 40s and 50s, who have been a presence ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/4/2008 8:00 AM

I had the most wonderful weekend this weekend, as I am calling this in; I am driving home from the airport on a rainy Saturday night, and looking forward to being with my kids. But also thinking about what a fun and slightly unusual weekend I just had with the ladies of Heritage United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg.

The reason that this is unusual is that Paula, the Pastor’s wife, who also runs the Women’s Ministry events told me that their goal and their purpose for their Women’s Ministry events is to purposefully go deeper and dig deeper into the issues while at the same time to have retreats that are just fun times to get women together to fellowship, socialize and teach. At the same time it’s important to really make an effort to be proactive to ensure that the women walk away with a very good idea of how to apply this teaching ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 3/29/2008 8:00 AM

This trip was both absolutely wonderful in many ways, yet incredibly frustrating in others. This was one of those wonderful invitations. I love speaking in a few specific parts of the Northern Hemisphere, especially the New England area and also in Canada because the culture is so different from the usual, sort of, churchy culture of many other parts of the country in this area. I was thrilled to get an invitation to speak at a Women Unlimited Conference in Ontario.

This is a group of people, just a darling group of ladies led by a woman named Betty, who are putting together conferences all across Ontario that reach out to women of all different denominations, really into the secular world, and just give a woman a great day out with some other women from all over who they may not have known before and they all come together and sing and listen to a speaker and it’s just a great model. I’m so glad they’re ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 3/28/2008 8:00 AM

I made sure today when I headed to the airport that I did not make the same foolish mistake that I have made before, much to my embarrassment. Last year, Jeff and I had a television program in Vancouver in Canada that we had to go to and so we packed all of our things and headed down to the airport a bit late as usual, pull up to the counter an tried to check in and the lady says, “And your passports please?” and we kind of looked at her blankly and went, “Oh my goodness, we are going to Vancouver, Vancouver is in Canada, Canada is another country, oh my! ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 3/7/2008 8:00 AM

The traveling circus of the Feldhahn family left for its latest trip - this time to Michigan for an event, and then 2 days of R&R with friends.

The event was for Orchard Grove Community Church, at a beautiful retreat center called the Inn at St. John’s, in Plymouth, MI. It used to be a monastery and was converted to a hotel and conference center. Absolutely spectacular. The event was fun - the first church retreat event they had apparently ever had. And they turned it into a multi-purpose conference to ‘Equi ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/29/2008 8:00 AM

I really enjoy any excuse to get to Colorado Springs, and a chance to come to Colorado a day early to record some experimental content in the Focus on the Family studio is a better excuse than most! I’m so grateful for my relationship with Focus. They have been so unbelievably encouraging over the years, and I’m amazed when I look back on the trajectory of my publishing career, and see how often Focus fits into it, and how special it is to have their support. Especially the support of Dr. Dobson. I remember after we recorded the first ‘For Women Only’ broadcast - and he ended up being so interested they kept recording, and it ended being a 3 day broadcast. And after the microphones were off and we were just talking, he said something like, “I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and so often, it’s the same information over and over. Good information, but it is not usually new. This resea ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/9/2008 8:00 AM

Early on Saturday morning after having gotten back from Kansas City late the night before, I went again to the airport and flew out for Virginia to be one of several speakers at the Love4Life Conference put on by the Association of Christian Counselors. I am so glad that there is an organization like this one that focuses not just on counseling for those who really need it, but on bringing a Christian perspective that can help people narrowly address their emotional and mental and behavioral issues, but also the spiritual roots of those issues as well, it’s such a valuable perspective. And this conference is one that they hoped to make an annual conference and I was honored to be invited and it was fascinating for me to be at this conference with people who I have watched and respected so highly ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/8/2008 8:00 AM

We found out a few days ago that my beloved Grandpa Bob passed away. He was 88-years-old and a World War II veteran, so there were a lot of people who came from around the country to his funeral. I flew in first thing Friday morning and had literally to run out after the funeral was over in order to catch the last flight out Friday night. But in between it was so wonderful to see extended family, some who I haven’t seen in years, and wonderful to be able to hug each other and cry and remember Grandpa Bob. It was very, very touching to me especially and very poignant to see my grandmother.

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By Shaunti Feldhahn on 1/28/2008 8:00 AM

This two-day trip was to go speak to an annual convention of the Baptist General Assembly for the State of Oklahoma and it was a real honor to be invited.

On Monday night, I was able to speak before the whole group, men and women, and share my story of how I came to faith and Jesus as a 21-year-old getting ready to graduate from college and the path, a very unexpected path that God led me on, to where I am today as an author and a speaker. And then in the morning, this Tuesday morning, 29th, I spoke to the women and this is all a group that was gathered together to be encouraged, and inspired, and equipped to be able to go out and love people in the name of Jesus, not just talk but really live our faith though our lives and pray for people and to help people and help them understand that the whole reason we love people is because of Jesus.

And so it’s very interesting that as I am driving back home from the ... Read More »