Kelly Needham was a great speaker for our women's event. She worked with us before the event to discover what we were expecting and needed. During the event, Kelly was warm and gracious, available to those that attended, willing to make adjustments and fit into our plans. Her presentation on friendship was gospel-centered, down-to-earth, applicable, challenging, encouraging. We would ask her back in a heartbeat.
Kelly Needham
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Biography
Kelly Needham is a servant of Jesus Christ, a student of the Bible, and the COO of her home, where she lives with her husband, Jimmy and their five children.
She is the author of Purposefooled: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, and Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough and Friendish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion and has been a contributing author to other books including Faithful and Beautifully Distinct.
Kelly and her husband Jimmy co-host a weekly podcast called Clearly where they tackle the complex, confusing, and controversial parts of following Jesus. She has served on staff at two different churches, serving in youth, college, and women's ministry and is the co-founder of Teach Equip, a training program that coaches women to become better teachers of God’s Word.
Whether writing or speaking, Kelly’s aim is to convince as many people as possible that nothing compares to knowing Jesus. You can find more of her writing and speaking at jimmyandkelly.com or follow her on social media.
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Featured Keynote Programs
Purposefooled
Our Purpose Problem (First of 3-part seminar based on the book, Purposefooled)
We all need a deep sense of purpose. It’s an essential human longing. But if we find our purpose in what we do, we’ll face a lot of problems. This first sessions debunks the concept that purpose is found in discovering what you were made to do. Discover why a work-centered understanding of purpose will always be problematic.
Our Purpose Is a Person (Second of 3-part seminar based on the book, Purposefooled)
The Bible teaches that we weren’t made to do something but to know someone. Our purpose isn’t a specific set of tasks, our purpose is a person—Jesus. If that’s true, it changes everything! This session cover 4 major implications of a Person-centered purpose.
Living a Person-Centered Life (Third part of 3-part seminar based on the book, Purposefooled)
This last session demonstrates how living for someone is more deeply satisfying than living for a specific skillset or job you feel called to do. It’s in doing life with someone and for someone that we really come alive and find deep purpose in our lives.
We don’t need a plan, we need a person. (Christmas Message)
This message takes a fresh look at the Christmas story. Have you ever considered that God’s solution to the brokenness in the world wasn’t a well-thought out plan? He didn’t come up with a plan, he sent a person, namely Jesus. This message gives fresh hope to anyone dealing with brokenness and disappointment coming into the holiday season.
Marriage Conference
Jesus, the Hero and Hope of Every Great Marriage
Jimmy and Kelly share honestly and vulnerably from their nearly 20 years of marriage. Their marriage started out hard and they read every Christian book on marriage they could find. And yet many left them wanting.
So in this conference, they share the messages they wish they would have heard in year 1, passing on the hard-fought lessons and wisdom they learned along the way.
This conference is deeply rooted in the Bible and ground in the gospel and full of personal stories that invite honesty, conversation, and cultivate fresh hope. Sessions listed below.
Session 1—The Gift of a Hard Marriage: Learning to See Opportunity When Things Aren’t Easy
Session 2— Finding ‘Our Way’: Enjoying the Unique Couple God Made You to Be
Session 3— Thus Far the Lord Has Helped Us: The Joy of Remembering Jesus is for Your Marriage
Connecting with God through the Word
The Bible is not our savior; it simply points us to Him. So how do we make sure we aren’t making the same mistake the Pharisees did, becoming experts in theology and never connecting with Jesus?
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Featured Books
Friend-ish
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Purposefooled: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, and Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough
by Kelly Needham
Author and Bible teacher Kelly Needham reveals how we've been fooled into chasing meaning in all the wrong places, identifies the source of our hunger for the extraordinary, and shows us the steps we can take today to build a purpose-filled reality without turning our lives upside-down.
Many of us are exhausted from dreaming big and chasing the extraordinary lives we long for, but when we try embracing the everyday and find meaning in the mundane, we fear we're settling for a boring life. Are we missing something?
Kelly Needham has been the keynote speaker, the person folding T-shirts backstage, and the mom dealing with the ups and downs of daily life. By sharing her experiences with both the extraordinary and the humdrum--and wrestling with feelings of disappointment along the way--Needham helps readers discover for themselves the truth that changes everything: we weren't made to do something, but to know Someone. And it's that Someone who can infuse our lives with infinite purpose and meaning. In Purposefooled she explains
- why we feel like we were made for more and shows us the freeing answer to our longings,
- the ways modern technology affects our desires and dreams--and how to live free from its pressures and pitfalls,
- how familiar Bible stories reveal that being a world-changer is more accessible and simpler than we think,
- why we need to reclaim our imaginations from culture and steward them with eternity in mind, and
- what it looks like to live a deeply meaningful life today instead of wearing ourselves out trying to reach the next big thing.
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