The Womens Conference
The Nations Premier Forum For Women
Gayle Haggard
How She Empowers Others
Gayle Haggard is a speaker, teacher and the wife of Ted Haggard, the former president of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs. From 1985 through 2006, Ted and Gayle grew New Life Church from a handful of people meeting in the basement of their home into a congregation of 14,000 members. Gayle directed women's ministries, teaching women of all ages and overseeing 150 women's small groups. In the fall of 2006, she launched a ministry called Women Belong, a ministry which taught women that they should never feel alone, because we all belong to God and to each other.
Soon after, everything Gayle believed and taught was put to the test. On November 1, 2006, her husband was accused of having a secret life, involving infidelity and illicit drugs, and her world came crashing in on her.“In a few short days," Gayle says, "my life as I had known it, that I had so lovingly embraced, was demolished.” After an intensive season of counseling, prayer, and personal reconciliation, Gayle and her husband of thirty-one years emerged from their crisis and began to rebuild their lives. Because of what they have learned from this experience, they now feel that they are better people and better Christians, and that their marriage and family are stronger than ever.
In addition to Why I Stayed, Gayle is the author of A Life Embraced: A Hopeful Guide for the Pastor’s Wife. Today Gayle and Ted reside in Colorado Springs with their five children and one grandchild.
To read more about Gayle Haggard visit www.gaylehaggard.org.
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Gayle, your words will be healing to so many women and men. We need to see women today who stay and work on their marriages. You are a blessing!!
Posted by michelle durbin, 26 October 2009.
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I'm french living in Paris, I will give you some infos about my life project, because we need to be known in your country:
I co-founded EVE-OLUTION FOUNDATION Inc. (our motto = "The Global Soft Power of Change") an independent, global, not for profit organization (founded in 2002).
This Global NGO, participant to the UN Global Compact, is building a tribe of high potential and successful Women entrepreneurs around the world, who, together, as influencers, can make a better world for our children. Therefore, EVE-olution is coaching women entrepreneurs in developing and emerging countries, (80% of our planet) Women because they are the cement of society in these countries, so that they can grow their businesses, hire locally (reversing the rural exodus), become local influencers and role models, and act for less pollution and terrorism, and more well-being, each in her own country.
Their coaches are retired executives (a groing not-used population), corporate volunteers and young BA students (who need global experiences) from around the world, their main objective is to upgrade the profitability of women entrepreneurs they have in charge. They are helping them to be adapted to new strategies, like organic products, fair trade, new trends, .. (business coaching versus grant or loan).
The foundation aims at finance its actions only with corporations and individuals, no governmental funds, run without the expensive logistic of employee and permanent office, use its budget to cover the expense accounts of volunteers.
if you can/want help contact me at gerard.stein@eve-olution.org
Posted by Gerard E. STEIN, 25 October 2009.
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