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Dr. Alicia Wong

Alicia Wong serves as the Women's Ministry Specialist at Lifeway. She has also served as a missionary with IMB and NAMB and has been teaching in seminaries, local churches, and on the mission field regarding topics related to Ministry to Women, Counseling, and Missions for over 25 years. She also serves as the Associate Professor of Women’s Ministry at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, CA. She holds an M.A. in Intercultural Studies and Christian Counseling, M.Div. and a Doctorate in Education. Her passion is to see women be firmly rooted in biblical truth, built up in Christ, and established in their faith in order that they may share the good news with others to the ends of the earth.

Adrianna Anderson

Adrianna is a Bible teacher, speaker, writer, Lifeway Women Trainer, and Lifeway Women Event Specialist. She is the Director of the Ministry Wives Network for the Missouri Baptist Convention. She teaches and speaks on widowhood, prayer, mental health, apologetics, and racial unity from a biblical perspective. Adrianna holds a master’s degree in biblical studies, is a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and is working on doctoral studies in Public Theology. She is a contributing author of Because of Hope: Reflections of Faith. Her writing includes a curriculum that is part of Samford University’s Ministry Training Institute geared towards women in leadership. Her work has been published in Lifeway Research, Lifeway Women’s Blog, Journey, and Missions Mosaic, a publication by WMU.

God has used Adrianna’s unique life experiences to develop in her a deep heart for ministry to women. Widowed at the age of 24, the Lord sent her to live as a missionary in Mexico to teach English in a Christian school and ESL classes to the local youth. Adrianna remarried her 2nd husband Gregory in 2006. They are an interracial couple that teaches the subject of race to churches from a biblical perspective while simultaneously promoting the biblical principles of love, forgiveness, unity, and reconciliation. 

Dr. Stephanie Edge

Stephanie has a passion for teaching God’s Word and ministering to women. She served in Women’s Ministry in the local church for sixteen years and worked in College Ministry for ten years. Stephanie graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity. She also completed a Masters of Theology and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Christian Education from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Kate Downing

Kate Downing has been serving in Student Ministry for the last fifteen years at churches in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Oklahoma. She currently serves as the Student Director at BattleCreek Church in Tulsa, OK and works alongside several ministries helping to teach and equip the next generation of ministers. Through teaching and writing, she loves to help others come to know Jesus and fall in love with God’s Word.

Stephanie Bennett

Stephanie Bennett is a follower of Jesus, Ryan's wife, a boy mom, and the Women's Ministry Consultant for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board. Prior to her work with Georgia Baptists, she served as a semester missionary in Poland with the International Mission Board and worked for 20 years in the local church as a Research Assistant. An avid student of Scripture, Stephanie is passionate about biblical literacy in the church and leading women to know how to dig deep into the treasure of God’s Word for themselves. She also enjoys traveling, painting, decorating, and hearing people’s stories over an iced coffee.