Fostering Friendship
guest: Barbara Neumann, Christine Hoover, Scott Sauls, Sue Edwards | Everyone wants good friends. But does everyone know that to get good friends you have to be a good friend? Christine Hoover, Barbara Neumann, Sue Edwards, and Scott Sauls talk about the value of being intentional in friendships even when it’s difficult.
About the Guest
Barbara Neumann
Barbara Neumann (DMin, Dallas Theological Seminary) is an adjunct professor in the Educational Ministries and Leadership department at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Christine Hoover
Christine Hoover is a church planting pastor’s wife and mom of three boys. She is the author of several books, including Messy Beautiful Friendship and the forthcoming Searching For Spring: How God Makes All Things Beautiful In Time. In addition to writing her books and blog (www.GraceCoversMe.com), she contributes to TableTalk, The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and Send Network. Christine and her family live in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Scott Sauls
Sue Edwards
Dr. Edward’s heartbeat is to reinforce ministry partnerships between men and women, which strengthen church and parachurch organizations locally and worldwide. She has thirty-five years of experience in Christian education and Bible teaching, directing women’s ministry, retreat and conference speaking, training teams and teachers, overseeing staff, and writing curriculum. As former pastor to women at her local church she experienced healthy men and women partnerships on staff, and her passion is to pass on what she has learned. She is the author of Leading Women Who Wound ,Mixed Ministry, New Doors in Ministry to Women and Women’s Retreats: A Creative Planning Guide and the Discovery Series, which includes the following books: First Peter: Discovering Encouragement in Troubling Times, Proverbs, Ancient Wisdom for a Postmodern world, Volume 1 & 2, Ephesians: Discovering Your Identity and Purpose in Christ, and Revelation: Discovering Life Today and for Eternity. Married to David, she especially enjoys romping with their five grandchildren. Dr. Edwards’s research and teaching interests include women’s epistemologies and leadership styles. She is the mentor professor with Dr. Joye Baker in DTS’s Women in Ministry concentration of the Doctor of Ministry degree.
About the Host
Michelle Hill
Radio has been ingrained in Michelle for most of her life. This love for radio has taken her to various radio stations and ministries in places like Chicago, Alaska and other snow covered terrains like her hometown in north central Iowa. In 2005 she landed on staff with Cru/FamilyLife®. While at FamilyLife she has overseen the expansion of FamilyLife Today® internationally, assisted with the creation of Passport2Identity™-Womanhood and is now the host of FamilyLife This Week®.
For the last 15+ years Michelle has been mentoring young women and is passionate about helping them find their identity in God. She also has a fascination for snowflakes and the color yellow. Michelle makes her home in Little Rock, Arkansas.