This was one of the most fun weeks I have had as a public speaker. We had received an invitation for to speak to an annual event. Gulf Lake Ladies Days brings in around 3,000 women over the course of five days and gives them a ‘ladies day out’ at a beautiful lake in Michigan. My husband is from Michigan, so we thought that we could actually turn this into a chance for us as a family to see my husband’s family as well as speak to a fairly large group of women over the course of five days. This turned out to be a wonderful family and working vacation.
Gulf Lake is a community with a lot of vacation cottages. Residents live there part of the year, and it has a beautiful beach with boats and water activities. My kids loved getting on the sandy beach and building castles and canals and I had a lot of fun speaking to the women. One of the most special things for me was to be able to get some time to hang out with the other two women, Kim Bolton and Pricilla Shirer, who are on stage alongside me for these two days. Kim Bolton I had worked with before. She is a wonderful worship leader, musician and artist. The other woman, Pricilla Shirer, is a daughter of Tony Evans, and a powerful, powerful speaker. She is few years younger than I am, but is so experienced at speaking and incredibly anointed.
It was just so much fun to be able to hang out with these other women, it made the whole time so special to be to be with other women who have a similar life to mine. Pricilla’s husband Jerry and my husband Jeff ended up enjoying connecting and comparing notes, and our kids enjoyed playing together. So, it was a really neat week to get to know a few other traveling speakers a little better.