What Does Trusting God with Marketing Look Like?

I have a confession to make. I’ve always been a wimp when it comes to trusting God with marketing. You probably are, too. Most of us suffer from this illness. We sit back and say: I trust God to grow my ministry. How is that wimpy, you say? Well, let me illustrate by telling you [...]

Use Your Words: When Your Speaking Ministry Stresses You Out

Today on Use Your Words we talked stress. Usually I give  you some pep talk about marketing, or planning a talk, but I thought it was important to touch on something all of us deal with, but rarely talk about: how draining ministry is. And speaking ministry has its own unique stresses! Every Tuesday I [...]

How to Use Photos to Get the Word Out

You’re a Christian women’s speaker. You speak at church events. You do it for the glory of God. So thinking about marketing your speaking ministry sounds weird. Is that really part of ministry? Yes, it is, because if God has given you a message, you should want to get it out there. And you can [...]

Speaker Bureaus: Yay or Nay?

Is being represented by a speaking bureau a good idea? It can be, but it sure isn’t necessary!

So….How Do I Get Bookings?

If you want to be a speaker, this is the proverbial question. You’ve honed up your speaking skills. You’ve carefully crafted a talk that inspires change. But now where do you give that talk? Several organizations are often eager to have speakers, foremost among them Stonecroft Christian Women’s Clubs and MOPS groups. If you’re male, [...]

What Does “Giving a Talk” Entail?

If you dream of being a speaker, or even if you’ve already been asked to speak, you know that at some point you have to prepare a talk. So let’s begin by discussing what it means to “give a talk” in the first place. Over the next few days we’ll talk about how to get [...]

Why This Blog?

Sheila Wray Gregoire I’m Sheila Wray Gregoire. I speak. Do you? I didn’t always. I started off writing articles, and eventually books. But I’ve always loved making people laugh, and I love communicating God’s truth. But when I started speaking it was tough. I didn’t have a mentor, and I didn’t have any clue where [...]