I know that when searching for your speaker, you need just the right fit. You need someone who will come alongside you and serve, connecting with your women and helping to accomplish the purpose that God has for your group.
It is my prayer and my highest priority to be someone who brings:
- Authenticity, transparency, and affirmation. You need someone who is genuine.
- Availability. You need someone responsive to your emails and phone calls – someone committed to easing your stress as you plan for the event.
- Attentiveness. You need someone who is accessible to your women before, during, and after the event, and gives them full attention.
- Strong spiritual content. You need someone bathed in prayer and led by the Holy Spirit to call your women into deeper relationship with God and each other.
- Sensitive spiritual presentation. You need someone who presents spiritual truth in a loving and gentle way that is friendly to the seeker, and does not come across as condemning or harsh.
It would be my joy and honor to partner with you in ministering to your women, and I thank you for considering me for your event. I look forward to connecting with you!
Speaking Samples
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Speaking Topics
My two most popular talks are listed below, but please contact me if you are looking to explore a different topic or if you need these talks tweaked for different listeners. As currently written, both speaking topics are geared towards mothers with preschool and elementary aged children, and both include the current 2018-2019 MOPS theme, “Find Your Fire”. (Details: My MOPS Ministry.) Both talks mix practical advice with spiritual content in an authentic, sensitive, and uplifting way.
“Super-Mom Strives for Balance”
What do we do when life feels out of control physically, mentally, socially and spiritually? How do we find personal balance in a world so demanding, especially in seasons of life with so little margin? In this message, Karen Butland brings practical and spiritual suggestions for finding peace and stability, even in the midst of a busy life. Together, we’ll discover how to:
- Identify and pursue the areas of balance that are most important to your personal peace.
- Adjust your perspective and expectations in order to promote greater joy.
- Find the courage to choose contentment instead of resentment, even in the midst of difficult circumstances.
- Press in to God when life feels out of control, and ask Him to help order your priorities.
“Tangled Chaos Meets God’s Truth”
Does your life sometimes feel like a tangled web of chaos? When defeating lies twist with destructive habits, discouragement can result. In this message, Karen Butland explores how you can intersect tangled chaos with God’s truth, finding new hope, freedom, and peace in Jesus. Women will be motivated and empowered to:
- Identify thoughts that trigger negative emotions, and practice principles to find freedom by breaking the cycle of toxicity.
- Cut the ties of defeating lies, and find fulfillment living in the truth.
- Build change with patience and perseverance, looking forward with hope.
- Draw close to God and lean in to His power and protection, leaving behind fear and finding courage, even in chaos.
What Others Are Saying
Karen is a powerful speaker that you definitely want to hear! She is genuine, hilarious, daring, and inspiring. Her personal stories and applications will leave you on the edge of your seat and will inspire you to move forward with fresh hope in God! Hannah
“Karen presented a thoughtful, organized, and poignant message that spoke directly to my heart. There were many take always that will live with me for a long time.” Ashley
“Karen’s insight into the balance we strive to achieve gave me permission to drop the balls that were not necessary, and to grasp tight to the ones God wants me to keep.” Susan
“Karen brings unique perspectives on the demands of everyday life and how to approach them in a balanced, no guilt, empowering, God-centered way.” Sally
“Karen spoke amazing words of wisdom that spoke to my soul. Truly wonderful speaker to inspire balance and trust in the Lord.” Stacey
“Every mama can use the encouragement and reminding–we all strive for more balance.” Candace
“Thank you, Karen, for speaking truth with practical application! A very challenging talk with a great analogy.” Corrine
Statement of Faith
I believe:
- the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible and authoritative Word of God.
- there is only one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, and His sinless life, in His vicarious and atoning death through His blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His Ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
- that salvation is by grace alone through faith, apart from works by the merit of the shed blood of Christ and that the born-again believer is eternally secure in Christ.
- in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
- in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- in the ministry of the Holy Spirit by indwelling the Christian, enabling him to live a Godly life.
- in the individual priesthood of the believer.