ARISE Women's Conference 2026
Whittier Area Community Church, Whittier, CA
Geri is a guest speaker. A morning of laughter, honest conversation, and time in the Word. Bring a friend or come and make new ones.
I speak the way I write. Real stories from an ordinary life, held up against what God actually says, with nothing dressed up to look more spiritual than it was.
My aim is never to give a room a nice hour. It is to send people home with one truth they can hold on Monday. If you want a speaker who will be honest about the hard parts and still leave people hopeful, we will probably get along well.
Coming up
Where I am speaking next
Previous Engagements
- March 2019 Women of Influence Influence Church, Anaheim Hills, CA
- Inaugural conference ARISE Conference Whittier Area Community Church, Whittier, CA The very first ARISE, and the source of the video above.
- 2013 to 2017 The Well Whittier Area Community Church, Whittier, CA A regular speaker at WACC's women's gathering across five years.
Watch
See her speak
Geri speaking at the inaugural ARISE Conference.
More on the Life To Me channel.
Topics
What I speak on
Each of these can be a single message or shaped into a retreat weekend.
Beauty instead of ashes
What God does with the seasons we would never have chosen, and why the hard chapter is rarely the last one.
Waiting on God without losing your mind
Waiting is not passive and it is not wasted. What it actually asks of us, and what it grows in us while nothing appears to be happening.
Help is not a dirty word
Why so many capable women refuse to ask, what it costs them, and how to let a community actually be a community.
Finding God in the ordinary middle
Grocery lines, laundry piles, and the surprising places God tends to speak when we are too busy to notice.
Every week
Where I am teaching now
Conferences are the occasional part. Most weeks you will find me at Revere Church, where I teach Bible studies and lead with MomCo, our community for moms in the thick of raising little ones.
It is the part of this work I would keep if I had to give up the rest: the same room of people, week after week, getting further into Scripture together.
Planning an event
What I will need from you
Send me a note with whatever you know so far. Do not worry about having every detail settled; even a rough sketch is enough for us to start talking.
- The date, or the range of dates you are considering
- Where the event is and roughly how many people you expect
- Who is in the room, and what they are walking through as a group
- How long you want me to speak, and how many sessions
- What you are hoping people leave with
Honorarium and travel are worked out case by case. If budget is tight, tell me anyway. I would rather have the conversation.
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news! Romans 10:15