Karen Whiting

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Karen's Bio:

Karen has a heart for busy women and desires to help them free up time for what God has truly called them to do in relationships and ministry. She challenges listeners to discover ways to make life easier and more exciting.
Karen is the author of ten books, hundreds of articles, and writes a monthly family page, and is a frequent guest on radio shows. She also hosted a TV series in Miami and has traveled as far as Malaysia as a speaker. Her two newest books in the Secrets of Success for Women series are Time and the Home are lifelines for women drowning in busyness and chaos that offer practical direction and inspiration. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Focus on the Family, Today's Christian Women, the Lookout, and Christian Parenting Today.
Humorous anecdotes combined with inspiration and creative solutions in Karen's talks help women streamline their days and create Christ-centered lives. Audiences laugh a lot yet come away with new hope, encouragement, and feeling refreshed and challenged to make better choices in life. Karen draws great lessons from her own tales of over-commitment, motherhood, and misadventures in life.
Karen is a mother of five, including two rocket scientist sons, and grandmother of two. For twenty-two years Karen and her family moved around the country wherever her husband's career as a Coast Guard officer took them. She has lived from New England to Hawaii, Michigan to Florida, and currently resides on Maryland's eastern shore where her husband is in his second career, in commercial industry.
Karen speaks to MOPS Groups, women's groups, Christian Women's Connection groups, and Mother-Daughter groups. Karen and her husband have been active members of Officer's Christian Fellowship for three decades and currently minister to midshipmen and women at the Naval Academy.



Karen's Speaking Topics:

• Time choices: From the dump yard to a life of splendor - This begins with a very humorous, true story in which the wrong time choices landed Karen in trouble. Learn secrets of success found in God's pattern of time choices so you can thrive rather than merely survive. [This goes along with my book Secrets of Success for Women: Time]

• Springs of contentment - Discover ways to reduce stress and tap into multiple sources of contentment. Find release from emotional cages that rob you of peace and start sprinkling joy into your days.

• Brings Christ's presence into the home - Laugh at Karen's zany anecdotes and learn secrets to creating a Christ centered home. Transform your home into a haven with simple methods to create peace and fill hearts with treasure. [Goes with my book: Secrets of Success for Women: Home]

• A heart for Leadership - Follow the Biblical model of Nehemiah to L-E-A-D effectively: (Listen, Engage, Assemble team and tools, and Delegate)

• Bridging the Distance: Staying connected while apart - Career may keep a spouse away from home, but families can bridge the distance creatively. Karen shares lots of anecdotes and tested tips from marriage to a traveling spouse who spent twenty two years in the military and over ten years in commercial industry.

• A Spirit Filled Christmas - There's help on how to keep Jesus" in the loop" while trimming the tree, shopping, and celebrating Christmas with the family. Karen shares easy ways to celebrate Christ's birth without adding stress.

Meeting Planners Say:

• "Witty, humorous, insightful, gentle, and creative!"

• From Chaplain Mark Jumper, USCG Academy Chaplain: Karen's ministries flow generously to others. Karen, a model wife and mother, shines as a real person who surmounts life's gritty challenges with sensible spirituality."

• From Sandra Felton (author/speak Messias Manuel) - In Secrets of Success for Women, Time, Karen offers guidance for today's too-busy Christian woman with straight forward suggestions couched in Biblical encouragement. The book is a refreshing call to balanced and productive living. Many women will be the better for having read it.

• From Marita Littaue (ClLASS President, author/speaker) - As an adult, looking back, I am so grateful for the special heritage I have and the lasting legacy my mother gave me. Karen's book, Christ in the Home, offers busy moms conciseâ€"- yet creativeâ€" ways to do for their children what my mom did for me.

• From Connie Austin, meeting planner, Rockford, Il: - Karen's gentle but direct approach, as well as her wit and humor, offer women and men of today many helpful ideas and approaches that can affect their everyday routines."

Karen Says:

I share some very funny stories that get people laughing a lot but I also give very practical advice and creative solutions to apply immediately.

Gospel Presentation?

I share the gospel when I give my testimony. It depends on the topic and needs of the audience. In some cases it is a natural part of the talk, such as in sharing ways to bring Christ into the home, I talk on how to present salvation at home.

Why Karen Speaks:

I never wanted to write or speak. The Lord clearly led me into writing first and the fruit came with lots of publication.. As others share that I touch a need and I realize the Lord wants me to share my stories and ideas with other women, I find this is now best done through speaking in addition to the books. (In following God's will for my life I waited to speak until my youngest entered high school )

Karen's Goal:

To let women see new possibilities in their lives and discover that they can make better choices for their families and their lives. I like to help women discover how to weave the presence of God into daily life and decisions, as well as learn to free up time for ministry.

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