Linda Dillow is no stranger to publishing and adventure. She's the author of Creative Counterpart, Calm My Anxious Heart, and The Blessings Book. Linda and her husband Jody lived in Europe and Asia for 17 years training Christian leaders in closed countries with Biblical Education by Extension, During this time, Linda traveled extensively in Romania, Russia, Hungary, Poland and Asia. She taught women and helped them launch women's ministries. This fire for encouraging and educating others continues as she speaks at women's conferences here and abroad. She is a mother of four children, as well as a grandmother.

 Lorraine Pintus' vibrancy and life experiences make her a popular speaker at women's conferences and retreats nationwide. She, along with her husband, Peter, leads Hearts at Home Ministries, an organization dedicated to building Christ-centered marriages and family relationships. An award winning writer, Pintus has had her work published in such magazines as Decision, Country, Discipleship Journal, Christian Parenting Today, Virtue, Today's Christian Woman and Focus on the Family. She is also the author of Diapers, Pacifiers and Other Holy Things, a humorous and insightful devotional book for mothers of young children. She and her husband Peter have two children.

Visit Lorraine's blog: www.lorrainepintus.wordpress.com

Nancy Barton has served as Director of Women’s Ministry at Wheaton Bible Church for 9 1/2 years.  Over this time, she has encouraged and challenged many women to deeper their walk with God.  Her relational style of teaching and encouraging spirit is a foundational to her ministry.  As a single woman, it is her desire to daily walk with Jesus as her partner and to encourage others to do the same.

 Nancy holds a Bachelors of Science in Gerontology from Bowling Green State University and a Masters of Arts in Christian Education from Dallas Theological Seminary.  She has also served in women’s ministry at Evangelical Church of Fullerton, California and Valley Community Church in Chico, California.  Nancy has served with the Intimate Issues team for 4 ½ years.  Nancy enjoys horseback riding, running, biking, and her English Springer Gracie Lou.           See Singles Sessions

 Dr. Joseph and Linda Dillow have been married forty years.  The Song of Solomon has been their “sex manual.” and they have both have spent hundreds of hours studying it. Jody has a PH.D. in theology and has dissected the Song in Hebrew.  In the 1970s, he wrote a popular commentary on the Song of Solomon called Solomon on Sex. Linda first wrote about the Song in 1977 in Creative Counterpart, a book that encourages wives in their biblical role as helpers to their husbands.

Dr. Peter and Lorraine Pintus have also been married a long time--twenty-four years. Peter has a PH.D. and wrote his dissertation on spirituality and servant leadership. He is the manager of training and development at Focus on the Family, an educator, and life coach.  Lorraine wrote her first book, Diapers, Pacifiers and other Holy Things, on parenting, but when she met Linda two years later, she graduated from kids to sex!