Women’s Session to hear from radio ministry host, longtime retreat leader, among others

A radio Bible teacher and counselor, two pastors’ wives and a musician headline the Women’s Session of the Empower Evangelism Conference the afternoon of Feb. 4 (Monday).

The session will begin at 1:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Euless with June Hunt, Lilliana Lewis, Barbara O’Chester and Katie Dyke-Kinsey. The session concludes at 4 p.m.

JUNE HUNT
Hunt is an author, singer, speaker, and founder of Dallas-based “Hope for the Heart,” a worldwide biblical counseling ministry that features an award-winning radio broadcast by the same name heard daily across America. Additionally, “Hope In The Night” is Hunt’s live two-hour call-in counseling program that helps people work through problems with biblical hope and practical help.

Hunt holds an M.A. in counseling from Criswell College. Her books include more than 30 topical HopeBooks and the 31-day devotional “Seeing Yourself Through God’s Eyes,” often used in counseling offices, churches, and small group Bible studies.

Hunt has also toured overseas as a musician with the USO and been a guest soloist with the Billy Graham Crusades.

BARBARA O’CHESTER
Barbara O’Chester is the wife of Harold O’Chester, who served 34 years as pastor of Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin. The couple has been married 50 years. She taught at numerous ladies’ retreats through a ministry begun in 1969 at Great Hills.

She has been married to Harold O’Chester for 50 years. They have 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren.
Harold and Barbara received as a couple the outstanding alumni award from New Orleans Seminary. In 2003 Barbara received the J.M. Dawson Award for Distinguished Service at the Southern Baptist Ministers’ Wives luncheon at the SBC Annual Meeting.

The O’Chesters recently moved to Wake Forest, N.C.

LILIANA LEWIS
A Mexico City native, Liliana Lewis received her bachelor of science degree in Bible with a minor in general ministries and a concentration in elementary education from Columbia International University, Columbia, S.C. in June 1991. Also, she is a graduate of the Academy of Dance, a school for professional ballet, in Mexico City.

The wife of Michael Lewis, pastor of Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin, Lewis met her husband while the two were college students. They have three daughters, Charity, Faith and Hope.

Lewis has a passion for leading women’s Bible Studies and enjoys speaking to women and to college students. She currently teaches a sixth-grade Bible Life Group and assists in the church’s AWANA program in addition to other areas of the church and the community.

KATIE DYKE-KINSEY
Singer Katie Dyke-Kinsey has a ministry geared toward helping the hurting, lifting up those who have fallen, and reaching the lost. She has been in the music ministry from the age of 7, traveling with her family, The Griffins, and singing across the nation.

She is the mother of six children who believes that her greatest ministry is at home with her family. Katie’s vision is that God would use her and her family to bring hope to a lost and dying world and show them that there is joy even in suffering.