At The Table: The Podcast of the SBC Women's Leadership Network

Bible Teacher, Mentor, and Arizona Women's director Simone Lake joins us to share her story of walking out obedience 'in the next step.' She encourages women to seek the opportunities in front of them and to have faith in the journey God has them on. We also discuss how to engage our neighbor during our current medical pandemic.

Simone Lake is a Christ-follower, a Bible teacher, a passionate pray-er and the bride of Pastor Dr. John Lake. Her passion is teaching, training and equipping the saints in God’s word, making disciples of Christ. and evangelizing the lost into a personal relationship with Christ.

A graduate of Gateway Seminary, Simone holds her Master's degree in Theology and also holds a certificate of Apologetics from Biola University.

You can find out more about Simone and her ministry "Deep Roots In Christ" online at http://www.simonelake.com/

Join Eric Shumacher and Elyse Fitzpatrick as they share about their new book "Worthy: Celebrating The Value of Women." Both Eric and Elyse share some of their hopes for bringing to light the way God has used women throughout redemptive history and encourages us in having conversations marked with dignity and respect around this topic.

You can find out more about the book Worthy and about Elyse and Eric at WorthyBook.com

Today's guest, Christine Hoover, joins us to talk about friendship and leadership. She encourages us in remembering that community is a need for everyone and that often times we can believe the lie that we have to lead alone. She shares how to find spaces of vulnerability and the importance of asking for help.

Christine Hoover is a pastor's wife, mom of three boys, host of the "By Faith" podcast, and author of several books. Her latest offering is With All Your Heart: Living Joyfully Through Allegiance to King Jesus. Previous books include Messy Beautiful Friendship and The Church Planting Wife. Christine has contributed to The Gospel Coalition, For The Church, and Christianity Today. Originally from Texas, she and her family live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they planted a church in 2008. Find Christine at her home online, https://buff.ly/2Sz0C1W.

Susie Hawkins joins me at the table to talk about how important self awareness is as a leader. She shares some of her own struggles as a young woman in ministry and how to stay faithful throughout the different seasons of leadership.

Susie Hawkins lives in Dallas and has been actively involved in women's’ ministries in the local church as well as the Southern Baptist Convention. She enjoys teaching the Bible and has contributed to numerous publications, as well as authoring From One Ministry Wife to Another. She enjoys serving on the boards of Baptist Global Response and the Lifesavers Foundation. Susie has an MA in Theology and Christian Leadership from The Criswell College in Dallas, Texas. She is the wife of O.S. Hawkins and has two daughters and six grandchildren.

You can connect with Susie on Twitter @Susiehawkins1

Mary Wiley joins us on this episode to talk about why women need Theology in their every day. From choosing what we eat to how to lead in various roles, Mary shows us how are every day moments reflect what we believe about God.

Mary Wiley is the author of Everyday Theology, an eight-week Bible study exploring essential doctrines and why they matter in our everyday lives. She holds a BA in Christian studies and English from the University of Mobile and an MA in theological studies from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She and her husband, John, have two children and live in the Nashville area. She works in publishing and hosts the Questions Kids Ask podcast.

You can follow her on Instagram @MaryCWiley

Today's episode talks all about getting through seasons of discouragement and dryness as a leader. Rachel shares how to mix things up in personal Bible study and how God works through hard and dry seasons to show us more of Him.

Rachel is a Pastor’s Wife, Mom, friend, Ministry leader author and speaker. Her happy place is the beach or eating chippy dippy with her family.

Her website is www.rachellovingood.com

and connect with her on social media @rachellovingood.

Want to know how to start a movement of God? Pray. Today Diane Strack joins us to share her story of leadership and how God birthed a movement within her to join women from all across the US to pray for revival. You'll hear her story of how one decision of obedience lead to God showing up in amazing ways.

You can join the movement at SheLovesOutLoud.org.

Diane Strack inspires audiences to expectant faith and a discovery of the character of God. She has been active in women’s and student ministry for more than three decades through teaching, writing, and mentoring. She is the co-founder of Student Leadership University, the global, premier leadership training for more than 200,000 students, educators, and ministry leaders; author of New Start for Single Moms, a transformational mentoring program used globally through One More Child; and President of the nonprofit, She Loves Out Loud.

Today author and Bible teacher Courtney Reissig joins us today to discuss Courtney's new book "Teach Me To Feel." They touch on how the Bible speaks to our emotions and what it looks like to find God in the hardest of seasons.

Courtney Reissig is a writer and bible teacher living in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the proud mom of four sons, happy wife to Daniel, and author of three books: The Accidental Feminist, Glory in the Ordinary, and Teach Me to Feel: Worshiping Through the Psalms in Every Season of Life (releasing January 1, 2020). They are members of Immanuel Baptist Church. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram (@courtneyreissig).

Listen in as Brenna Norwood of The Heart of Texas Foundation shares her story about ministering to men and women who are incarcerated. From seminary training to sending out field ministers across the state of Texas we get a glimpse of how God is working and the gospel is going behind prison walls and changing lives and families with hope and redemption.

Learn more about The Heart of Texas Foundation at https://heartoftexasfoundation.org/

Dr. Brenna Norwood, Ph.D. Leadership, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Brenna Norwood serves alongside her husband Grove in the work of The Heart of Texas Foundation. She coordinates all of the resources and communication for the Field Ministers Literacy Program, Field Ministry Theological Library and Team Support Kit, the Women’s Advisory Council, and The Heart of Texas Foundation Press. She has the Master of Science in Educational Administration (1999) from Texas A&M University. She served as a public school

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teacher for six years in Texas, then as a higher education administrator for ten years. Brenna earned the Doctor of Philosophy in Leadership from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2009.

Listen in as Mary Margaret West shares how to intentionally come alongside teen girls in our local churches. We talk about throw back Nokia phones, the stress and anxiety that is weighting down our students, and how to engage the next generation so they don't fall away from the church after High school.

Mary Margaret West has been leading in women's and girls ministry for the last 15 years She's currently serving as a Middle School Bible teacher at Foundation Academy in Winter Garden, FL. She has a passion to equip girls and women to dive deeply into God's Word and live out their calling and live out their calling, and does this by training, consulting, and speaking to students and leaders across the Untied States. Mary Margaret is the author of Show Her the Way: Your Guide to Discipling Teen Girls, is a former Girls Minister, and holds a master's degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Mary Margaret and her husband Jonathan live in Orlando, FL.

Connect with Mary Margaret on Twitter @MaryMargaretC