Logan Wolfram
Executive Editor
Logan is a regular gal with a desire to see the things of our extraordinary God manifest here on earth. Wife to Jeremy, and mother to 2 spirited boys, Logan believes that true discipleship begins with a hospitable heart. She strives to find redemption in brokenness, fun amongst the mundane, and beauty in the midst of chaos. Sometimes she succeeds, and sometimes she doesn’t.
God recently dropped her at the helm of the Allume Conference, and most days she pinches herself over the opportunity to serve such a phenomenal community of women. Her passion for people drives her to encourage, teach, and enable others to fulfill their God given callings & destinies. She regularly and candidly chews on bits of truth and life at her blog LifeForDessert.com.
Christin Slade
Managing Editor
Christin has a heart to encourage and equip women in aspects of discipleship, marriage, mothering, writing, blogging, and community. She sees the body of Christ as an important community of encouragement and discipleship and works to foster that around the web. Her biggest ministry is to her family and she knows how beautiful, hard, overwhelming, and exhausting mothering can be. Her passion is to encourage mothers who need a challenge or a lift (or both). She has been married 12 years and has 5 children ranging in age from 10 down to 2.
You can find her encouraging moms at her blog Joyful Mothering, helping women in blogging at ChristinSlade.com, and chatting it up on Twitter as @ChristinWrites.
Jessica Heights
Special Projects
A born story-teller, Jessica hungers for back story and burns with the telling. She is a seamstress, fashioning a didactic tapestry of soul sustenance with the sensual golden thread of narrative and history. She dives and hunts; she listens and draws out. Jessica is a collector, a curator…and a purveyor of the riches of the written or spoken word. She is the author of Muthering Heights and Other Senseless Sensibility,where she lives her own story – wandering her heart chambers and reveling in the Glorious Minutiae of life as a woman, a wife, a mother, and an opponent of Fibromyalgia. In addition to being a co-host of Allume Social, she blogs for Operation Christmas Child and is a contributing writer to The MOB Society.
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Contributors
(In alphabetical order)
Michele-Lyn Ault
Michele-Lyn Ault lives in happy chaos with her family on the outskirts of Orlando on 30 acres of Florida country. She is a wife and homeschool mama of four. Michele-Lyn pours out her heart in words, at times courageously afraid, on backlit screen and sometimes her soul bleeds a little as she writes on her blog, A Life Surrendered. She prays her words never make anyone feel like they cannot measure up, but as readers grace her pages, that it be God’s grace they find. Trusting God is not afraid of our humanity or shocked by our mess, she opens up with hopes others will open wide their hearts to God, and allow Him unhindered access to pour His love and bring healing. She is a contributing writer at 5 Minutes for Faith, and also a blogger and advocate for World Help. Her heart breaks for the nations of the world, and also for weary mamas, but knows she cannot be undone for the lost and the weary and leave her family undone. So, she embraces fully and is committed to putting first, her call as wife and mama, and prays her most passionate pursuit is always of God. Join her Facebook community, and follow @lifesurrendered on Twitter.
Kris Camealy
Kris is a freelance writer with a passion for using her words to encourage, inspire, and lead others. She embraces the writing life while homeschooling her four children, and coordinating the MOPS ministry in her church. Kris also serves as an advocate for Compassion International which seeks to set children free from poverty in Jesus’ name. She blogs weekly at Always Alleluia.com and is a contributing author to the books, Finding Church and Soul Bare: Reflections on Becoming Human (coming in March 2013). Her first eBook, Holey, Wholly, Holy: A Lenten Journey of Refinement releases February 1, 2013
Jennifer Camp
Jennifer, voice finder and wife of a heart-warrior, in N. California, mothers three children and leads My Girls, a group where women gather to remember the truth of their identity, in God’s eyes. You can find Jennifer writing at her blog, You Are My Girls and connecting on both Facebook at You Are My Girls Community and Twitter at JenniferCamp1. She would love to have you join her there.
Erika Dawson
Erika would much rather find out about you than talk about her and would far prefer going deep over coffee than writing a concise bio blurb. But if you really want to know, Erika is crazy about her jungle-born, turned computer-geek husband and adores her three full-of-energy, sometimes feisty, little ones. Erika really is your typical mom next door, except that she has “tasted and seen that the Lord is good,” and that changes everything! Burning deep in her soul is the truth that “God’s steadfast love is better than life,” and it has transformed her. She is passionate about prayer, God’s Word {and praying God’s Word!}, and her heart is for encouraging women in their faith and championing them as they impress God’s truth on the hearts of their children.
Erika shares the lessons she’s learning in marriage, parenting, and living a life surrendered to Christ on her blog, erikadawson.com. You can also find her on twitter and facebook.
Christie Elkins
Christie is the mother of three rambunctious little ones, wife to a pastor/cop, and a writer to anyone who will offer a listening ear. She began her blog, My Walk With Eden in 2008 after realizing that sharing stories of accidentally catching your infant’s baby clothes on fire in the microwave may somehow encourage a mother out there that just accidentally locked their child in the car and had to call the fire department. Because Christie’s been there, too. Christie spends her days trying to homeschool, paint her nails, and save the world, all before naptime. In addition to blogging Monday-Friday, Christie is also a newspaper columnist at the LaFollette Press, sharing weekly, humorous tales in her column entitled Letters from the Nest. Christie and her family reside in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, where sweet tea is served at every meal and hospitality is second nature.
You can find Christie on twitter (@cselkins), on facebook , her blog, or Lafollettepress.com.
Kristen Glover
Kristen is the main character in a story in which a redemptive God takes a reluctant mother on a journey to find and reclaim her story. It is a story she wishes wasn’t always true because it is not always beautiful. Except, if it wasn’t true and if it wasn’t messy, God’s grace wouldn’t be nearly so amazing. Now a mother of five, including twin boys, Kristen writes about the sin she knows a thing or two about, the grace she has found, and the beauty of being right where God wants her (even if that includes –homeschooling). Married to an academic-turned-pastor-turned-Army-chaplain, the only thing consistent in Kristen’s home is her morning cup of coffee. Thanks be to God for morning coffee.
Find her writing and wandering with all Five in Tow. If she is procrastinating making dinner or resisting folding laundry, you will also find her on Facebook and tweeting (with all the social awkwardness of a too-tall junior higher) as @fiveintowblog.
Tricia Goyer
Tricia Goyer is an award winning and acclaimed author of over thirty books including Remembering You, Beside Still Waters, and the mommy memoir, Blue Like Play Dough. She won Historical Novel of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from ACFW, and was honored with the Writer of the Year award from Mt. Hermon Writer’s Conference in 2003. Tricia’s book Life Interrupted was a finalist for the Gold Medallion in 2005. In addition to her novels and non-fiction books, Tricia also writes magazine articles for publications like MomSense and Thriving Family. Tricia hosts Living Inspired, a weekly internet radio show, where she interviews inspiring guests each week. A regular speaker at conventions and conferences, Tricia has been a workshop presenter at the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International Conventions and Hearts at Home. She and her family make their home in Little Rock, Arkansas where they are part of the ministry of FamilyLife.
You can find Tricia blogging at It’s Real Life.
Kristin Lemus
Kristin Lemus is crazy in love with Her Savior because He pursued her heart with deep freedom. She is married to her best friend and “momma” to 7 kids (one in heaven). She doesn’t have it all figured out and needs lots of grace along the way.
Kristin’s heart beats pretty passionately for women to know who God is and who He says that they are. She shares her heart and her journey at The Beautiful Deep. It is her way of sitting in a cozy spot with you and sharing How incredibly loved and special you are to God and encouraging you that you are equipped with everything you need to be victorious in the life you are called to live.
You can also find Kristin sharing more practical mommy tips {from her experiences of raising 6 kids}, blogging tips and great finds at Mommy Kudos. She’d love to connect with you on Twitter or Facebook too!
Andrea Levendusky
Andrea Levendusky writes about everything. Literally everything. Whether it’s the deep, disappointing heartaches of life, the richness of the Gospel or last weekend’s epic baked oatmeal recipe, she writes in hopes that you’ll sit and talk with her too. It’s no secret that life can be one wild mess, and she writes to be a voice of hope pointing to redemption in the middle of it all. When she’s not rambling at theorganicbirdblog.com, she’s designing and creating pretty things for theorganicbird.com. And if you really want to keep up with how much she’s procrastinating or whether or not her daughter is the next four-year-old savant, you can follow her on twitter (@theorganicbird). She also drinks copious amounts of coffee, which is worth mentioning in this bio since really it’s the only reason she gets anything done.
Gretchen Louise
Gretchen Louise is a farmer’s wife and mommy to three curly-haired children. When she’s not working in the family business, hanging out laundry, or washing dishes, she writes in CSS, HTML, PHP—and English. You can find her around the web on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+.
September McCarthy
September has more joy than she ever thought possible in this life. She lives a life of perpetual motion, loving the man that has protected her heart for 23 years, and raising 10 children to be more like their personal Savior. September has a heart for encouraging women in motherhood, and the humility of “being real.” Her journey through loss and tragedy has taught her to be sensitive to the pain in other’s lives. While managing her home, she finds new perspective daily, and has been able to share that with discipleships, speaking, and writing. September writes at One September Day, and is a contributing writer at MODsquad. Between laundry and life- her heart is to encourage. Connect with September on Faceboook and twitter @septemberanne
Amanda Medlin
Most days you will find Amanda at home playing with her two little boys, reading good books, and making messy art. Other days you will find them all at the church, the boys taking over their daddy’s office while Amanda works alongside him their ministry to the next generation.
Her blog Always, Amanda is the place where you will find her sharing bits and pieces of her story as she is taking steps to cultivating a life of beauty and meaning while learning to live where her best, but flawed intentions meet His perfect and unending grace.
You can also connect with her on Twitter and Facebook
Natasha Metzler
Natasha lives and writes from a dairy farm in Northern New York. Life hasn’t gone according to plan but the heartache sings of redemption. Find her blogging at natashametzler.com
Jill Monaco
Jill Monaco is the Founder of Jill Monaco Ministries and lives in the Dallas Texas area. She loves mint chocolate chip ice cream, excuses to wear yoga pants, watching God heal people and finding ways to earn the title of “favorite aunt” with her nieces and nephews.
Jill has performed all over the world as a singer/dancer/actor. She sang backups for Perry Como, is the voice on various children’s books, has represented Fortune 100 companies as a corporate event speaker and was seen or heard in national commercials. Jill was on staff of a church as a worship leader when Jesus pursued her and she learned the truth about who she was redeemed to be. Now, she uses her gifts to serve the Kingdom. Through her experience, develops and builds programs for non-profit ministries with Christian musicians, conferences and events for the glory of the King.
Jill never imagined her life as it is now and is passionate about encouraging others to take the journey and believe God for greater things. As a speaker and writer, Jill inspires women to be hear God’s voice through prayer and the study of His word. Her desire is for them to live intensional lives; empowered by the knowledge of who they are in Christ and to walk with authority in the sphere of influence God has entrusted to them. You can find Jill writing on her blog “A Grace Journey” at www.jillmonaco.com. Connect with her on twitter @jillmonaco and #AGraceJourney or on Facebook.
Kayse Pratt
Kayse is a teacher turned stay-at-home-mom, and is married to her favorite musician. She is addicted to books, baked goods, date nights, and car dancing, and she firmly believes that real is the only way to be. She writes about faith, family, and real life on her blog, kaysepratt.com.
Mandy Scarr
Mandy is a lover of deep relationships, theological discussions, and peanut butter. She feels called to ministry, seeking to share with women of the freedom she walks in because of her relationship with Jesus. She and her husband live in the beautiful suburbs of Washington, D.C. She writes at www.mandyscarr.com. You can connect with Mandy further on Facebook and Twitter (@mandyscarr).
Crystal Stine
Crystal Stine has a heart for encouraging women through the written word at her blog where you’ll find posts about motherhood, marriage, friendship, God, and life as she knows it. Crystal spends her days working at a bank as a project manager and marketing officer and manages the worship band Stars Burn Down. You can follow her on Twitter at @CrystalStine.
Kristina Tanner
If Kristina could only tell you one thing it would be that you can’t surprise God. Over an ice water she’d tell you about how she found herself as the single mom of four kids at the age of twenty-six and how God has protected her like only a father could. She’d look you square in the eyes and tell you that that’s how He protects you too. When she’s not busy writing her blog Redefining Awesome you can find her immersing herself in YA fiction or folding the endless piles of laundry. She writes for New Life Media and also wrote the 31 Days to Become a Better Writer series for Allume. Connect with her on Twitter: @kjtanner
Teri Lynne Underwood
Teri Lynne Underwood is a Word lover and idea slinger. A passionate encourager of rest, focus, and embracing life’s seasons, she tries to make time every day for good coffee, excellent books, and lingering conversations. Whether writing or speaking, Teri Lynne’s greatest passion is offering women permission to live well.
As a pastor’s wife and a cheerleader’s mom, Teri Lynne is typically three days behind on laundry and trying to remember where she’s supposed to be next. Lately the Lord has been teaching her a lot of lessons about humility, listening, and loving others well.
Connect with Teri Lynne on Twitter and Facebook.
Jacque Watkins
Connector and lover of heartfelt chats and chai tea lattes, Jacque is a relator who can’t wait to connect with you. As a Labor & Delivery RN and mama to five, she spins her days between chaotic kids and newborn cries, groping to find God’s gifts amidst them all.
Over a decade ago, in the aftermath of an affair, Jacque was found by God’s mercy and changed by His grace, and because of His love, will never be the same. She is passionate about forgiveness and second chances, and wants you to know, regardless of your tragedy–no matter your brokenness or failure, God’s grace is enough. And His mercy can find even you. You can connect with Jacque on her blog, Mercy Found Me, or on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Lara Williams
Speaker and writer, Lara lives in central North Carolina with her husband and three kids. Beneath the clutter of laundry and to-do lists, she describes the beat of her heart to be revival — that we as Christ-followers would walk our days in His abundance regardless of the mess.
You can find out more about Lara at www.LaraWilliams.org or read her blog at www.ToOverflowing.com.
