These amazing sponsors help make Allume 2014 possible!
(in)courage
(in)courage is about relationships with God and with others. You are all welcome to put your sandy feet up on the {virtual} beach house table and share your stories. Our heart is Jesus and knowing Him. We bring women together in this online space to laugh, cry, heal, and simply be real about who we are individually, and in the eyes of the Savior, Jesus.
Website: incourage.me
Twitter: @incourage
Facebook: facebook.com/incourage
Pure Charity
Pure Charity is a community of people like you. People who want to make a difference, using their influence and passion to change the world. With Pure Charity, you can discover, share, and fund non-profit projects that matter to you. Grow your giving power simply by making every day purchases at top retailers and brands, and by leveraging your online network. Pure Charity is like an affiliate program to increase your giving. Use your influence to inspire others to generosity, and multiply the good being done in the world. It’s a free, simple way to advance hope and inspire others to join a lifestyle of generosity.
Website: purecharity.com
Twitter: @purecharity
Facebook: facebook.com/purecharity
Mary & Martha
Meaningful Entertaining…made simple. That’s what we do at Mary & Martha. We demonstrate products and share tips that help you re-imagine what your home can be used for…a place where the perfect home isn’t the point…the people in it are.
Website: maryandmartha.com
Twitter: @MaryMarthaHome
Facebook: facebook.com/marymarthahome
CCF Brands
What is it about a table? Attach four legs to a flat surface and something incredible happens. Life happens. We eat, talk, play, work and live around the table. Tables hold our food, our families and our memories. At Great Day Farms, we believe great days start and end at the table. A table filled with delicious and nutritious food. A table filled with love and laughter. A table filled with family and friends. We think tables can change the world. We help fill your table with great food, so your table can help you fill life with great conversation, great memories and great days. Great Day Farms. Making a difference, one table at a time.
Website: greatdayfarms.com
Zondervan
Zondervan is a world leading Bible publisher and provider of Christian communications. Zondervan, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc., delivers transformational Christian experiences through its bestselling Bibles, books, curriculum, academic resources and digital products. The Company’s products are sold worldwide and translated into nearly 200 languages. Zondervan offices are located in Grand Rapids, MI. For additional information, please visit www.zondervan.com.
Website: zondervan.com
Twitter: @zondervan
Facebook: facebook.com/zondervan
Preemptive Love Coalition
The mission of Preemptive Love Coalition is to eradicate the backlog of Iraqi children waiting in line for lifesaving heart surgery in pursuit of peace between communities at odds. We live and work in Iraq, bringing international heart surgery teams in to save little lives and to train local doctors and nurses until they are equipped to handle the tremendous backlog on their own.
Call it “settling accounts,” “settling to rights,” or the “restoration of friendly relations”–reconciliation is a big part of why we do what we do. We work to unravel the effects of evil that were wrought by Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaigns, by years of sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shi’I Muslims, by ethnic struggles between Turks and Kurds, and by the Iraqi War.
We give people over “here” a tangible opportunity to save a life over “there” and to see “those” people as exactly that: people. Humans. Sons and daughters. We are all more than the images we receive from professional media. It’s not us helping them get over their differences. It’s us being reconciled with us.
Website: preemptivelove.org
Facebook: facebook.com/preemptivelove
Twitter: twitter.com/preemptivelove
Revell
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, offers practical books for everyday life.
Website: RevellBooks.com
Twitter: @RevellBooks
Facebook: facebook.com/revellbooks
Food for the Hungry
Food for the Hungry (FH) is a Christian organization serving the poor globally, since 1971. We reflect the love of Christ in short-term emergency relief and long-term work to end world hunger.
Website: fh.org
Facebook: facebook.com/foodforthehungry
Twitter: @food4thehungry
The Love Dare
The Love Dare, a #1 New York Times bestseller from B&H Publishing that has sold five million copies, is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love.
In 2013, the authors of The Love Dare penned The Love Dare for Parents, a 40-day journey of “dares” challenging one or both parents to understand, practice and communicate Christ-like love to their children.
The Love Dare books challenge you to think differently—they’re about learning and daring to live a life filled with loving relationships.
“Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
Website: http://lovedarestories.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/LoveDareBook
Twitter: <@LoveDareBook
Noonday Collection
Noonday Collection offers fashion forward accessories for you and your home handcrafted by artisans from around the world who receive a living wage for the work. Every item is handcrafted in style, with love, and creates a pathway out of poverty for the artisans. Proceeds also help place orphans in forever families.
Website: www.noondaycollection.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/noondaycollection
Twitter: @NoondayStyle
Help One Now
Mission: Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to caring for orphans and vulnerable children by empowering and resourcing high-capacity local leaders in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.
Our tribe: As a collective group of churches, businesses, communities and individuals from around the world. The people of Help One Now are dedicated to using their gifts, talents and resources to help end extreme poverty, care for orphans, rescue slaves and see communities transformed by serving international partners through Help One Now. We sponsor kids, host garage sales, donate funds, take trips, advocate, and much more.
Struggle for Progress — Together we Build
Website: helponenow.org
Website: gs4o.com
Facebook: facebook.com/helponenow
Twitter: twitter.com/helponenow
Instagram: instagram.com/helponenow
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/helponenow
Blog: helponenow.org/blog
Ornaments4Orphans
Ornaments4Orphans is a fair trade initiative of Pearl Ministries (www.PearlMinistries.org) that sells handmade Christmas ornaments and nativities to benefit East African artisans and their families. Proceeds from the sales of ornaments are used to help feed, cloth and educate orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda.
You can help advance our cause two ways this Christmas: (1) shop our site and (2) sponsor a tree. Find out more at Ornaments4Orphans.org.
Ornaments4Orphans
1) Buy an Ornament. Bless a Child.
2) Put Up a Tree. Lift Up a Child.
Website: Ornaments4Orphans.org
Work of Worth
Work of Worth exists to connect entrepreneurs in developing countries to the US market. They only work with fair and ethical businesses, who are providing sustainable income for men and women through dignified work. Work of Worth’s purpose is to see that those who face human trafficking and poverty have more CHOICES through commerce. The overarching goal is to see people in desperate circumstances have what we all want: a job that brings dignity. Each person they support is a work of worth, the products they make are works of worth, and with each purchase, you are taking part in a work of great worth.
www.workofworth.com
https://twitter.com/WorkofWorth
https://www.facebook.com/workofworth
http://www.pinterest.com/workofworth/
Sole Hope
Jiggers are small sand fleas that burrow into the bare feet of thousands of Ugandan children who often live their lives without adequate footwear and a misconception about the cause of jiggers. The result is infection, gangrene, paralysis, and occasionally amputation and even death.
A graphic, heartbreaking YouTube video exposed the truth about jiggers to Asher Collie. Her love of children and her desire to help others compelled her to start Sole Hope, a ministry who’s mission is “Offering HOPE, healthier lives, and freedom from foot-related diseases through education, jobs, and medical relief.“
Through medical and education, initiatives as well as training the art of shoemaking to many, Sole Hope is restoring HOPE to children and adults both physically and spiritually.
Website: solehope.com
Twitter: @solehope
Facebook: facebook.com/
Pure Charity: purecharity.com/
You Tube: youtube.com/solehope
Icon Media Group
Icon Media Group is a boutique public relations firm run by a group of talented women who engage media on behalf of clients within the niches of family values, positive entertainment, social justice, and health and wellness. With extensive experience in storytelling through three decades of collective work in the publishing and news media worlds, the team at Icon understands how to create and market clients to the faith-based community better than almost anyone. Icon has managed publicity campaigns for more than 50 New York Times best-selling books, as well as hundreds of best-selling Christian titles and other film, entertainment, non-profit and local market projects. Icon is based in Nashville, with staff and partners located in Atlanta and LA.
Website: iconmediagroup.us
Tynadale
Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people.
Website: www.tyndale.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tyndalehouse
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tyndalehouse
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/TyndaleHouse/
Shattered Magazine
Shattered offers hope and encouragement by sharing stories through our print magazine and online. We are ordinary people, living out our stories in light of God’s extraordinary story. By sharing our experiences, we hope to encourage others to discover a new perspective on life. We desire to reveal the bigger picture behind what can happen when God works through our shattered stories. No matter who we are or where we’re from, we believe God has pieced our stories together for His purposes.
Slogan: Your story matters!
Website: www.shatteredmagazine.net
Facebook: facebook.com/shatteredmag
Twitter: twitter.com/shatteredmag
Thomas Nelson
Thomas Nelson is a world leading publisher and provider of Christian content and has been providing readers with quality inspirational product for more than 200 years. As part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc., the publishing group provides multiple formats of award-winning Bibles, books, gift books, cookbooks, curriculum and digital content, with distribution of its products in more than 100 countries. Thomas Nelson, is headquartered in Nashville, TN. For additional information visit www.thomasnelson.com.
Darling Magazine
Darling Magazine holds the modern mold of woman up to the fire to evoke a discussion on femininity and re-shape an authentic design. Darling is a catalyst for positive change; leading women to discover beauty apart from vanity, influence apart from manipulation, style apart from materialism, sweetness apart from passivity, and womanhood without degradation.
Darling leads woman to practice the arts of virtue, wit, modesty, and wisdom- all the while creating beauty and embodying love. Darling says women are not only interesting but original, not only good enough, but exceptional – not just here, but here for a purpose.
Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook | Website
Compassion International
In response to the Great Commission, Compassion International exists as an advocate for children, to release them from their spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enable them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults.
Website: www.compassion.com
Website: stepintomyshoes.org
Pinterest: Pinterest.com/compassion
Facebook: facebook.com/compassionintl
Twitter: @compassion
Blood:Water Mission
Blood:Water is an equipping agency that partners with African grassroots organizations to address the HIV/AIDS and water crises. We do this by identifying Africa’s hidden heroes and coming alongside their vision for change. Through technical, financial and organizational support, we expand the reach and effectiveness of African civil society organizations and the communities they serve.
Website: bloodwatermission.com
Twitter: @bloodwater
Facebook: facebook.com/bloodwatermission
D.C. Jacobson
D.C. Jacobson & Associates is a literary agency with a rich history of introducing fresh Christian voices to the world. Their relationships with publishers, editorial insight, and knowledge of the marketplace serves their authors well. DCJA’s diverse client list includes a number of past and current Allume speakers and attendees. Don Jacobson and Jenni Burke will co-present a workshop on book publishing and will be available for a limited number of meetings with prospective authors (sign-up sheet at their sponsor table). Also, swing by their table for a sneak-peak of SimpleMom Tsh Oxenreider’s upcoming book, Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World!
Website: www.dcjacobson.com
Twitter: @donjacobson, @jenni_burke
Shazzy Fitness
Shazzy Fitness is a fun, easy-to-learn dance fitness program that fuses modern dance with faith-based contemporary music, including Gospel Hip-Hop & Christian Rock. Our revolutionary workouts offer a fun and funky dance fitness experience that lets you get your praise on and groove on – both at the same time!
The family-friendly choreographed moves are set to Christian music with a contagious hip-hop beat and include convenient 25 minute fat-burning, dance workouts that complement the busy lifestyle of today’s Christian. Order today at http://www.ShazzyFitness.com
Vi Bella Jewelry
Vi Bella Jewelry helps release people from poverty in Haiti, Mexico and the United States by providing them steady, well-paying jobs in safe, encouraging work environments. Our artisans use discarded plastic and glass bottles, metal bottle caps, old paper and even oil drums to craft unique handmade jewelry and gift items. When you choose Vi Bella, you’re helping create beautiful lives.
Our core values reference Micah 6:8, to honor and walk humbly with our God, to defend the oppressed and to show love and mercy like Christ.
Facebook: facebook.com/ViBellaJewelry
Twitter: @ViBellaJewelry
Website: www.vibellajewelry.com
The Growly Books
For centuries the bears of Haven have lived quiet lives, high in the mountains at the edge of the great Precipice. That all changes for a young cub named Growly when he receives a mysterious message. With just his backpack and glider, Growly sets out on a desperate journey to find his grandfather’s long lost friend … and to find a way back home. Begin (book one), Widewater (book two), and Morning (book three) of The Growly Books series are available now! Written by Phil & Erin Ulrich for the 8-12 year old reading level, the series is also a captivating read aloud for younger children and will appeal to anyone who appreciates stories of adventure and friendship.
Website: thegrowlybooks.com
Twitter: @erinulrich
Twitter: @philulrich
B&H Publishing
B&H Publishing Group is a non-profit publisher made up of people who are passionate about taking God’s Word to the world, because we believe Every Word Matters™.
Website: bhpublishinggroup.com
Facebook: facebook.com/bhpublishing
Twitter: twitter.com/BHpub
Project 143
Project One Forty Three is bringing HOPE to orphans through hosting programs with families across the U.S. We currently host orphans from China, Latvia, and Ukraine. Children are hosted in homes for 4 to 10 weeks in a summer program and winter program over Christmas. Many of these children are available for adoption and find their forever family through the hosting experience. Children who are “Host Only,” experience love and life in a family and are impacted greatly. Find out more about hosting an orphan at www.p143.org,
Website: www.p143.org
Twitter: @P143Org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/p143host
The Root Collective
The Root Collective’s mission is simple: tackle poverty and give back through high quality ethical fashion. We partner with artisans in developing countries to help provide access to a buying market. We also give back 10% of each purchase to nonprofits that are working in those same communities, and the really cool part is that you get to pick which nonprofit you want your purchase to support. #OttoMadeMyShoes
Website: therootcollective.com
Facebook: Facebook.com/therootcollective
Twitter: @therootcollective
Instagram: @iheartTRC
Pinterest: pinterest.com/iheartTRC
Tumblr: iheartTRC.tumblr.com
The Mentoring Project
The Mentoring Project has a mission to rewrite the fatherless story through mentoring. Countless statistics tell us that children from fatherless homes are more likely to: drop out of school, become teenage parents, join gangs and experiment with drugs. The fatherless story is not ending well.
We believe this can change…
Website: www.thementoringproject.org
Twitter – @tmproject
Facebook – facebook.com/TMProject.org
Instagram – @tmproject
Envision Possibilities (Dixie Andrade)
Envision Possibilities: We work with Christian mothers who are struggling to live their life’s purpose with balance, grace, faith and fun! We provide women with workshops, group and private coaching programs as well as virtual training programs so that they can find their life’s purpose and create a beautiful life plan to make sure they get it all done often seeing results in under 90 days. Our core message comes from: Ecclesiastes 11: 4,6 — If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done…Be sure to stay busy and plant a variety of crops, for you never know which will grow — perhaps they all will.
Website: www.dixieandrade.com
Facebook: Envision Possibilities
Twitter: @CoachDixie
Ambassador International
Ambassador International works with authors to create quality Christian literature of several genres—fiction, devotionals and children’s books just to name a few. Founded in 1980, Ambassador International’s vision has always been to create products that strengthen believers in their Christian walk and direct the lost to the way of salvation. Ambassador International releases more and more new titles each year including both print and ebook formats. Ambassador operates offices in the US and Northern Ireland, holds distribution partnerships on four continents and our books are in the hands of readers around the world.
Website: Ambassador-International.com
Twitter: @AmbassadorIntl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+
Shining Light International
Shining Light International exists to: ’empower oppressed communities by meeting practical needs and offering hope for a brighter future.’
We believe that illiteracy, poverty, abuse and injustice all contribute to the oppression of people that keep them in a world of darkness without hope. Shining Light provides help and hope by focusing on high impact education, women’s vocational training and community development initiatives that transform entire communities in Northern Pakistan. We envision a world where light dispels darkness, hope overcomes despair, help empowers the helpless and prosperity replaces poverty making a much brighter future for many.
Hear more of our story: shininglight-intl.com
Facebook: facebook.com/ShiningLightIntl
Instagram: @shininglightinternational
Twitter: @ShiningLight_I
Google+: Shining Light International
Wildfire Marketing
Rob Eagar is the founder of Wildfire Marketing, a consulting practice that helps authors, publishers, and non-profits spread their message like wildfire. He has trained over 400 authors and worked with numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Dr. Gary Chapman, Lysa TerKeurst, and Wanda Brunstetter. In addition, Rob is the author of Sell Your Book Like Wildfire, which is considered the bible of book marketing. For more information about Rob, visit: http://www.startawildfire.com
Website: startawildfire.com
Twitter: @robeagar
Pinterest: pinterest.com/robeagar/wildfire-websites-portfolio/
YouTube: youtube.com/user/robeagar#p/u
The Seed Company
When Jesus is revealed through His Word, lives are transformed. Because of this — right now and all around the world — local Bible translators are infusing their languages and cultures with the authority of God’s Word. For the Word of God is alive and powerful (Hebrews 4:12 NLT).
We partner with these real-life heroes in the field, and here at home. People who are giving when it hurts. Praying for life-and-death situations. The brutal fact is, 1 billion people are Bibleless. But our prayer is for every nation and language to receive the Gospel in our lifetime. All nations will come to your light; mighty kings will come to see your radiance (Isaiah 60:3 NLT).
Website: http://www.theseedcompany.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theseedcompany
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/theseedcompany/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSeedCompany
Twitter: @theseedcompany
Instagram: @theseedcompany
Harvest House
Harvest House Publishers was founded in 1974 with just five titles and a dream to publish books to help the hurts of people. Now the company publishes more than 150 new books each year and offers a strong backlist of more than 1,200 titles. Harvest House books gained a reputation of being affordable, trustworthy, and practical by meeting people’s most current needs. More than 100 million Harvest House books have been sold worldwide. Millions more have been sold in 75 languages around the world.
Website: harvesthousepublishers.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/HarvestHousePublishers
Twitter: @Harvest_House
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/HHPublishers
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/harvesthouse1/
William K Jensen Literary Agency
The William K Jensen Literary Agency has been partnering with bloggers for over six years helping them in every aspect of the book publishing process. We created the earliest relationships between bloggers and publishers and understand the synergy between the two which has resulted in numerous publishing associations for our authors. In the last 20 months our authors who blog have had six books on the New York Times Bestseller List with many more signing multiple book deals. If you’re interested in book publishing please stop by our table, we would love to talk to you and explore the possibilities.
Website: www.wkjagency.com
She Reads Truth
She Reads Truth is a community of women who read God’s Word together daily. We believe what the angel Gabriel said to Mary in Luke 1:37 when he said, “No word from God will ever fail.” And so we come to the Bible together—every day, from wherever we are around the world—to read Truth, to remember that we are not alone in this sisterhood of believers, and to direct one another’s gaze away from the lies and onto the beautiful face of Jesus. Join us?
Website: www.shereadstruth.com
Rockstar Passes
Advertising events and venues can be costly. Finding a professional graphic designer and a reputable printer to create a quality product can be time consuming and stressful. Specializing in creating custom laminate passes and other promotional items for clientele nationwide; RockStar Passes delivers an affordable and professional look for any event. Clients can select from any of their products such as passes, posters, lanyards and fan slicks to promote their event to its fullest. All of our clients are RockStars!
Website: www.rockstarpasses.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rockstarpasses
Twitter: @rockstarpasses
Givington’s
Givington’s exists to make the most of every day. We make the most of every purchase made through our store, giving 50% of the profit to support the cause our customer chooses. We make the most of every word our authors have crafted, helping expand their influence and amplify their reach through our unique retail, revenue and reporting approach. We make the most of every opportunity to serve churches, ministries and non-profits, providing the best prices and service on the books they need.
Website: Givingtons.com
Twitter: @givingtons
Facebook: www.facebook.com/givingtons
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/givingtons