A mini-adventure into the world of fun, faith & chocolate!
Who doesn’t like chocolate? Chocolate is the number one food craved by women everywhere, consuming nearly twelve pounds per person yearly! When life gets tough, eat chocolate! Sue Duffield offers women who crave chocolate delicious encouragement for their walk with Christ. Sprinkled with hilarious real life stories, fun chocolate facts, original music and biblical application, Sue takes us on a delightful journey of fun and faith. You can count on some chocolate for dessert with dinner too!

Sue Duffield loves to make people laugh with off-the-wall Jersey logic and sacred sarcasm! She has found it to be a style of humor that resonates with audiences everywhere and has become a Sandy Cove favorite. This singer/songwriter and former radio personality tours with her own comedy and musical concerts since 1974 and speaks for women’s retreats, international conferences, Prison Fellowship Ministry Briefings, Child Evangelism Fellowship, and Rotary International, among others. Sue is also an advocate against human trafficking, involved in the ministry of Redeeming Roses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she plans to visit each year.

Her humorous stories and inspirational writings are featured in New Jersey’s “SJ” Magazine, Absolutely Gospel Network, “Laugh Lines”- the National Assemblies of God Women’s Ministry website, and John C. Maxwell’s book Everyone Communicates Few Connect (Thomas Nelson).

Sue is married to her high school sweetheart, Jeff Duffield, keyboard artist, arranger and studio musician. They reside in Nashville, TN and have two adult children, David and Annie.

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From courting in a horse and buggy to Internet dating, the past century has seen rapid changes for women. Lynn takes a nostalgic look at challenges and choices of the past as seen through the eyes of four generations of women. Discover God’s timeless advice from His unchanging Word to guide women of all ages into the future.

Lynn Austin, a former teacher who now writes and speaks full time, has won eight Christy Awards for her historical fiction. One of those novels, Hidden Places, has also been made into a Hallmark Channel movie. Lynn and her husband have raised three children and make their home near Chicago, Illinois.

Extended family is very important to Austin, and it was a lively discussion between Lynn, her mother, grandmother (age 98), and daughter concerning the change in women’s roles through the generations that sparked the inspiration for her novel Eve’s Daughters.

Lynn’s next two books, Return to Me and Pilgrimage come out Fall 2013. Return to Me is the first book in a Biblical Fiction series called The Restoration Chronicles, featuring the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Pilgrimage is Lynn’s first nonfiction work about her spiritual journey through the land of Israel.

Speaker, Musician, Worship Leader

We are exhausted, stressed out people…filled with anxiety…constantly trying to fit ten pounds into a five pound sack…hindered by, and held captive by our fast paced lifestyles! This evening will be a reminder that we are not helpless. Permission granted to SLOW DOWN! Gwen will share her grace-story through message and music, explaining how God’s grace can bridge the gap between our life clutter and His strength, healing and peace.

Those who know her best would tell you that Gwen is just a car-pooling, coffee-loving, chocolate-craving, Jesus-loving wife and mother who struggles like the rest of us with dirty dishes, everyday life, messy piles, mountains of laundry, complicated relationships and cellulite.

Gwen Smith is a speaker, author, songwriter, and worship leader who inspires women toward the heart of God through stories, songs, and Scripture. Her fun, enthusiastic, and relatable communication style puts audiences at ease and bridges generational, denominational, and racial divides. As a co-founder of the conference and devotional ministry Girlfriends In God, Gwen has helped thousands of women experience how the Word of God and the power of grace, through Jesus Christ, rejuvenates faith and enriches lives.

Gwen has shared her stories and songs on The 700 Club, The Good Life, The Harvest Show, Atlanta Live, and many other television and radio programs. She is the author of a book titled Broken Into Beautiful – which shares the same title as a heart-stirring song that she co-wrote and recorded.

Today, Gwen and the ministry team at Girlfriends In God encourage more than 500,000 women daily through their online devotions (www.GirlfriendsInGod.com). The “GiGs” have co-authored a book, “Trusting God: A Girlfriends in God Devotional,” that was released on December 13, 2011 with WaterBrook Multnomah Publishers. In addition, Gwen was a recording artist with Great Worship Songs and a staff songwriter for Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing from 2008 – 2011. She has written for Sunday Best Music Publishing since 2004. Her newest CD, Uncluttered, was released in early 2011.