A Licensed Professional Counselor, Debbie Elmore has helped people make sense of life's challenges for over 30 years. She has worked in private practice, with New Life Ministries, and with the Life Christian Counseling Network. Debbie will explore how the new dimension of prayer & relationships with our adult children shift from parenting to becoming their advisor. Debbie and husband John have five children and 21 grandchildren.

In Prayer and Understanding: The Differences in How Men & Women Think, Cynthia invites us to laugh, learn, and pray as we see how God’s design builds love & connection, how vital prayer is in navigating our differences. Cynthia Rush loves building up women of all ages, serving on the HER Ministry leadership team and as MOMCo’s mentor, Mama Rush.

Melinda James, leader of the “Honoring Your Temple” Connection Group, has learned obedience, surrender and God’s faithfulness through health challenges & unhealthy relationship with food. She’s been blessed with 4 children and 2 grandsons that she adores. In Learning to Guard Our Temples with the Power of Prayer, Melinda shares how to understand our role as “caretaker of our temple” and how prayer powerfully shapes our journey.

Cate and Kerine invite you to come and hear how God wants us to know Him through prayer and learn & explore how “generational differences” actually are similarities rooted in our commonality. The prayers found in the books of Daniel & Ephesians are there for us to reach “the ear of God!”

Cate Schreiner leads the Tuesday morning Bible Study;

Keren Fosuhema is a Vertical Connection Group Leader.

Join Dalia Benavides as she shares about Prayer and God’s Purpose for Your Life. Dalia leads the Hispanic Connection Fellowship Group with her husband, Salvador. She has a heart to serve others with God’s love, dedicated to providing the best care at home, at work & in her community. Dalia is a homeschooling mom and works full-time at Kaiser Permanente.

Christy Wentz leads the Women’s Tuesday Morning & Teen Bible Studies and serves with Vertical Youth. She & her husband, Rick, have five children, all in the teen & young adult range. Her topic is Hanging onto Hope in the Teen & Young Adult Years. Christy invites teens, young adults, and parents, to come & learn the power that is unleashed when God’s goodness intersects with our faith.

Sabina Murphy leads the homeschool group at church and has children from 1 year old to middle school. Passionate about intercessory prayer, she intentionally nurtures the next generation in following Jesus. In her Breakout session, Train up your Children in the Way of the Lord, she teaches how to pray Scripture over your children.