Do you lead a ladies home group or look after the women's ministries in your church? Footprints can help! It is always a challenge to find a guest speaker that is interesting, relevant and topical - yet doesn't cost the earth.

Footprints offers a small team of speakers for you to choose from, experienced and gifted in tackling a broad range of women's topics (see below).

Best of all, the price is right - no group is too small to receive a blessing! We believe that God wants us to take every opportunity to encourage women to reach their full potential. We want to share our gifts, talents and experiences with others, as our gift both to them and the God who has called us. Therefore we do not charge a set fee, instead requesting a love offering or honorarium to cover any travel expenses and to allow us at times to travel further afield.

Here is what others have said:

I have no hesitation in recommending her (Janet) as a fabulous speaker. She was interesting, relevant and extremely personable. I didn't lose interest once and she was available to chat afterwards too! - Wendy Francis, Marketing and Communications Manager, QB Magazine Editor, Queensland Baptist

The leadership team received much positive feedback from Janet's talk . I can highly recommend her. - Jillian Ross, South Queensland Regional Coordinator, Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), Stafford Uniting Church

What an inspiration Melanie and Nicola proved to be! Thank you ladies! You certainly have servant hearts, and are able to encourage many in the stories that you tell. - Lorraine Clark, Samford Valley Community Church

Janet is friendly, interesting and humourous and brings a sense of achievement and encouragement as she ministers. She has a way of engaging with people and wants only to honour God along with women as valuable members of church life and society as a whole. She is a capable and experienced speaker and would bless any group. - Coralie Sanders, New Life Fellowship Church , Ormiston

A friend attended your 'the many faces of depression' lecture at Bayside Uniting Church recently and loved it. - Dr Johanna Lynch, MBBS FRACGP, Grad Cert (Grief and Loss), Director Womens Forum Australia

God obviously used your story to touch the hearts of those who attended .Your honesty and openness were accepted and appreciated if the nodding heads and body language were anything to go by. - Sherryl-Lee Secomb, Bayside Uniting Church, Wynnum

Janet has a great passion for helping women find their true value. Her presentation on being a Princess of God was thoroughly enjoyable. She delivered a message that was both relevant and topical in a professional yet casual manner. We found Janet to be totally approachable and adaptable to our specific event. - Carolyn Cox, the Salvation Army Bayside Community Church , Alexandra Hills

A member of the Footprint s Team would be delighted to share a message of hope and inspiration to your group - and as we are based right across Brisbane , there is a speaker located close to you. For enquiries or to make a booking, please contact Janet on 0421 482 642 or email editor@footprintsaustralia.com.

WHY BOOK A FOOTPRINTS SPEAKER?

• The price is right!

• Our speakers are ordinary women who love to inspire others about their extraordinary God - women that your group will be able to relate to.

• Resources available include the Footprints magazine (celebrating 10 years of publication in 2008), Clues to your Calling the first Footprints book, and from April 2008, Decadence: treat yourself to 10 years of Footprints.

• Non-denominational - Footprints speakers have ministered effectively to groups of almost every denomination.

• Choose from one of our three speakers:

Janet Camilleri 

From primary teacher to party plan, checkout chick to library assistant, public servant to debt collector, Janet Camilleri explored many career avenues over twenty years before she found her niche in writing and speaking. Now Janet has a busy and rewarding ministry/career, in a field she loves. Her goal is to help others find their own purpose and passion in life.

As author of Clues to your Calling and editor of Footprints magazine for ten years, Janet has a proven track record in inspiring audiences both on paper and in person.  She has made presentations to cell groups, seminars, lectures, ladies breakfasts and writers workshops.

Raised by a parent with a severe mental illness and personality disorder, and since her own diagnosis of clinical depression several years ago, Janet is especially passionate about mental health issues, tackling them from a Christian perspective.

Melanie Page

As a high school teacher and mother of three young adults , Melanie has a good rapport with all ages - from teens to older folk. Melanie is an articulate and amusing speaker who infuses her topics with a quiet passion and a wealth of background knowledge. She has a broad range of interests from ancient history to theology and literature, which melded into two highly successful seminars on the novel The DaVinci Code when the movie was released. This is just one example of a current issue which Melanie has addressed from a Christian perspective, although she also presents on timeless topics such as identity and self-esteem issues.

Nicola Saad

Nicola Saad is an original! . Footprints team member, that is . who, over the last 10 years has written and edited numerous articles for Footprints , on a wide variety of topics. Nicola first came to the Lord nearly 25 years ago, and is married with three school aged children. Over the years, Nicola has ministered in her church's Playgroup and Royal Rangers ministries, and is currently teaching Religious Education, running an e-prayer group and working on the Local Chaplaincy Committee at the children's school.

Nicola's expertise relates to a Christian perspective on families, social justice and identity issues. She is a supporter of both the Australian Christian Lobby and Australian Family Association and is currently more than halfway towards achieving her degree as a counsellor. A former cosmetics consultant, Nicola still enjoys being able to indulge her interest in ministering to women via the medium of therapeutic massage. Nicola desires to teach and encourage others to live out their Christian faith in ways which honour God.

TOPICS:

• The Only Way is UP! One woman's journey through depression.
  Duration: approx 40 mins. Janet; Nicola

• The Many Faces of Depression - Identifying depression in your own or a loved one's life.
  Duration:   approx 20 mins. Janet; Nicola

• Clues to Your Calling: Practical strategies on finding your life purpose.
  Duration: 20 mins. Janet; Nicola

• The Princess Diaries: Comparing the similarities between the popular movies, and our life purpose and calling.
  Duration:  10 mins. Janet

• The Secrets of True Success: God's opinion on the matter!
  Duration: approx 10 mins. Janet; Melanie

• Independence Day/The Myth of the Modern Woman: Our society places great value on independence and self-sufficiency. But what God really wants is for His daughters to live in relationship - with Him, and others.
  Duration:   approx 40 mins. Janet; Nicola; Melanie

• The Footprints Story: The inspirational story of how God grew a ministry!
  Duration: Approx 30 mins. Janet, Melanie or Nicola

• Writer's Workshops: for example, writing for magazines, making money from your writing, the writer's temperament, the Christian writer.
  Duration:   40 minutes each. Janet.

• Who am I? A woman's search for identity.
  Duration: approx 30 minutes. Janet, Melanie or Nicola

• Footprints Feet Treat: Spoil your small group with this pampering activity, whilst learning about the spiritual parallels.
  Duration: approx 20-30 mins. Nicola.

Alternatively, Footprints is happy to prepare new material on another subject to tailor with your group's goals and themes. Some of the talks listed above have an accompanying PowerPoint presentation, if your group has the facilities and is interested in utilising this resource.

2008

8 February – Taigum Community Church is holding its first Ladies Breakfast for the year, and Nicola will be presenting a brief introduction to the Footprints ministries and will be available to chat at the Footprints display!

17 February - Janet is looking forward to preaching at the 9am service at her own church, Redlands Fellowship, 29 Beveridge Road Thornlands. Please pray that people will be blessed and challenged by the message that she brings.

1 - 31 March – Check out the special display at Cleveland Library, to commemorate 10 years of Footprints!

6 March - From 9.30am, Janet will join the ladies of Greenslopes Baptist Church in the Youth Centre ( Dunellan Street ) for morning tea and to present the inspirational Footprints story. For enquiries, please contact Marion on 3391 1070.

24 March - The Redlands Easter Family Festival will be held at the Cleveland Showgrounds in Smith Street . For a very helpful and informative talk, you can catch Janet speaking in the Pavilion of Hope on "Behind the Mask" - identifying depression in yourself or a loved one. Come up and say g'day at the Footprints stand!

29 March - FOOTPRINTS 10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS! Join the Footprints Team from 2pm as we launch our new book "DECADENCE: treat yourself to 10 years of Footprints at Rivers Café, Citipointe Church, 322 Wecker Road, Mansfield. Plenty of free parking, handy to the Gateway Arterial Roads. Tickets just $10 and MUST be pre-purchased. Meet the faces behind the magazine, enjoy a sumptuous afternoon tea and you could win a lucky door prize! It'll be a blast! Contact Janet on 0421 482 642 or editor@footprintsaustralia.com and watch for the notices in the Footprints magazine and FOCUS ezine!

1 April – A member of the Footprints Team will lead the ladies at Clayfield Baptist this morning, as they seek the “Clues to their Calling”!

12 April - Redlands Fellowship Community Church will be presenting BREAKTHROUGH FOR WOMEN from 10am - 2pm, workshops designed to inspire and nurture women to become all the God created them to be. Janet will be just one of the speakers. The church is located at 29 Beveridge Road Thornlands. More details to follow.

17 May - Greenslopes Baptist Church is hosting a ladies breakfast at 7.30am. Janet is honoured to have been asked to present her testimony of overcoming depression in "The Only Way is UP!"

24 May – Come along to the Priceless Life Centre Open Day, at the Cornerstone Centre, 81 Mina Parade Alderley (same building as 96.5 Family FM's studios), and find out more about their fantastic work with women and families experiencing crisis pregnancies. Events of the day will include the launch of Rochelle Manners' new book, “Unborn Beauty”. And don't forget to come and say g'day at the Footprints display!

28-30 May – Janet will be travelling to central Queensland to speak at churches and events in Rockhampton, Yeppoon and Emerald, including:

- a women's event at the Uniting Church in Emerald on Wednesday evening 28 May

- Christian Outreach Centre in Rockhampton on Friday evening 30 May

- And the Uniting Church in Yeppoon will hold a ladies morning tea from 10am at the Bayview Tower International.

21 June – Janet will be encouraging the team at the Kianawah Counselling Service, 287 Kianawah Rd Wynnum West, with her testimony of living with and overcoming depression. Meeting starts at 9am. For enquiries, please contact Coordinator Rebecca Bellas on 0418 755 415.

28 June – From 8am the Living Faith Uniting Church at Pine Mountain Road, Mt Gravatt East are holding a breakfast, and have invited Janet along to speak on “The Many Faces of Depression” – how to recognise possible symptoms of depression in yourself or a loved one.

5 August – Janet will share on how to identify and overcome depression, at a women's event at Clayfield Baptist Church, corner Alexandra & Sefton Roads.

28 August - This morning Nicola will bless the MOPS group at St Paul 's Stafford Uniting Church , cnr Minimine St and Webster Rd , Stafford , with a special Footprints beauty workshop.

30 August – Rivers Baptist Church is holding a ladies retreat, and ha s invited Janet to  speak and bring a message of hope and inspiration! Contact Angela Webb on 3889 1474 for details.

16 October - Nicola will be pampering the ladies at Greenslopes Baptist with a delightful Footprints Feet Treat from 9.30am. Contact Marion on 3391 1070 for details.

15 November – From 9am Janet will share her message on God's plan for His children to live in relationship – with Him and with each other, in her talk “Independence Day” – at the Kianawah Counselling Service, a ministry of Wynnum Baptist Church . Call Rebecca on 0418 755 415 for further information.