To portray what happens when Jane steps in front of a microphone is to illustrate electricity. To call it “speaking” is one-dimensional! Audiences describe her speaking ministry as mesmerizing, deeply spiritual, funny, vulnerable, dramatic, and personal.
Jane's passion is to see people's hearts restored by the knowledge of the truth: that God absolutely delights in them, that God is crazy about them, that God would give everything on earth to make sure they know they are loved. The problem is, she says, “that we have lost our hearts. We are so busy stamping out fires and tending to a thousand urgencies every day, that we don't remember, don't notice, that our hearts have gotten trampled somewhere in all the stamping.”
“I believe that every issue we face - whether busyness, failure, shame, transitions - every issue is intended to lead us to God," she says. "Our tendency is to let our problems separate us from God and one another - but instead, they can become tools to allow us to deepen our spiritual lives, and to in turn change the world!"
Jane speaks internationally and ecumenically.
Books include the just released
Grace Points: Growth and Guidance in Times of Change (InterVarsity Press, 2004),
How to Keep the Pastor You Love (IVP, 2002), the award-winning
Quiet Places, Still Waters (a Gold Medallion Nominee),
Between Two Gardens (Bethany House, 2001), and, with Shirley Mitchell,
Fabulous after 50 (New Leaf Press, 2000). Her nearly 100 articles have appeared in magazines such as
Physician, Focus on the Family, LifeWise, Moody, Today's Christian Woman, Plus, Christianity Today, Christian Reader, the Lookout, and
Decision.
Both
Quiet Places and
Fabulous after 50 appear on the United Methodist Women's Recommended Reading Plan.
After obtaining a B.S. in Business from Indiana University, Jane completed postgraduate studies in Germany while also forming and directing an international drama team, taking the Gospel into then-Communist countries. She worked on her Master's at Trinity Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. Jane is assistant coordinator and faculty member of Write-To-Publish Writer's Conference -
Write-To-Publish
, where she finds enormous joy in helping others follow their God-given dreams. She belongs to Advanced Writers and Speakers' Association (AWSA) and SpeakUp! Speaker Services -
Speaker Services .
