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From precepts for Christian living to defending the faith against false teachings, the women’s session of the SBTC Empower Evangelism Conference will aim to equip and inspire those attending.
The session will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 at First Baptist Church of Euless, 1000 Airport Freeway, with speakers Jan Silvious, Rhonda Kelley, and Mary Jo Sharp, and singer Dawn Smith-Jordan.
JAN SILVIOUS
Silvious has been speaking to women for more than 20 years, helping them to think and live biblically. She has been a featured speaker at Women of Faith arena events, the Precept Ministries’ National Women’s Convention, Moody’s Women’s Conferences, Moody’s Founder’s Week, and Balancing the Demands of Life Women’s Conferences.
In addition to her work with churches and women’s organizations in the United States, she has taught in Canada, Europe, and Central America.
Silvious is a frequent radio guest on Moody Broadcasting’s “Midday Connection,” as well as other national call-in and interview shows. For five years she and Kay Arthur co-hosted the nationally broadcast call-in program “Precepts Live.”
Jan is the author of 10 books, including “Big Girls Don’t Whine” and “Fool-Proofing Your Life.”
In 2009, Silvious and musician Babbie Mason are teaming up with their new “Big Girl?Big God” conferences designed to minister to the whole woman?body, soul, and spirit.
RHONDA KELLEY
Kelley, wife of Chuck Kelley, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, is a professor of women’s ministry at the seminary’s Leavell College and the seminary’s director of women’s ministry study programs.
Kelley was host of “A Word for Women,” broadcast twice weekly on WBSN-FM and local network television in New Orleans from 1983-2005. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including the “Women’s Guide” series and “Raising Moms: Daughters Loving Their Mothers in the Later Years,” both from New Hope Publishers. Also, she is the managing editor of the Women’s Evangelical Commentary from Broadman & Holman.
Kelley has a Ph.D. in special education and speech pathology from the University of New Orleans and the Advanced Women’s Ministry degree from New Orleans Seminary. She is also a member of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
MARY JO SHARP
Sharp is the first female certified apologetics instructor (CAI) with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. She earned the master of arts in Christian apologetics from Biola University.
She is a former atheist who thought religion was for the weak-minded, but became a Christian after reading through “The One Year Bible” (Tyndale House Publishers).
Sharp and her husband have been in youth and music ministry for 12 years. Several years into the ministry, Sharp began to question the basis for her belief in God. She decided that if God was real, there should be solid answers to support his existence; and solid answers are what she found.
In November 2006, Sharp formed Two Chix Apologetics and the website Confident Christianity (confidentchristianity.blogspot.com). The website is dedicated to the discussion of theology, philosophy, and apologetics (defending the faith). In 2007, she began the Two Chix Apologetics Facebook group, which is one of the largest Internet-community website apologetics groups.
DAWN SMITH-JORDAN
Jordan, the 1986 Miss South Carolina and a 2nd runner-up to Miss America, has seen her share of heartache and the subsequent grace of God amid tragedy. Jordan’s younger sister was kidnapped and murdered two days before Jordan’s high school graduation.
During a successful music and speaking ministry, Jordan in 1997 became a single mother through no choice of her own.
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