Connie Neal - Speaking / Public Appearances

Speaking

Connie is an excellent inspirational speaker and educator. She toured nationally as a guest speaker with Women of Faith addressing over 150,000 in arenas across America, has keynoted national conferences, addressed Christian Educators and has material designed for women’s events, churches, schools, parenting classes, youth and youth workers.

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2007 Harry Potter – Related Speaking Topics

Summer 2007 is going to be huge with regard to interest in Harry Potter. Given that the final installment of the novels Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is due July 21 and the fifth movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is opening July 13^th people will be taking and thinking about the boy wizard and all that surrounds him. Therefore I have several options of speaking related to Harry Potter. These include:

· Wizards, Wardrobes, and Wookiees: Navigating Good and Evil in Harry Potter, Narnia, and Star Wars (related to the 2007 book of the same name)

· What’s a Christian to Do with Harry Potter? Navigating the controversy among Christians over Harry Potter in a kind and godly way. This relates to the 2000 book by the same name. Here I cover why Christians who agree on their opposition to witchcraft on biblical grounds disagree on Harry Potter, how to understand the stories as fantasy literature, how it is possible to use them for moral training and parallels to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

· The Gospel according to Harry Potter offers an array of speaking topics. I can draw out parallels to the Christian gospel from an overview the series by highlighting significant Christian themes from each of the books so far. Or I can focus in and give a presentation from any one of the single books as it relates to Christian themes. I have done this in a Christian Family Camp where I gave separate presentations for each of the published books as they related to the Christian gospel.

· Harry Potter Family Fun with Christian Themes: Given that these novels began as children’s stories, I have devised some delightfully fun interactive experiences that can bring kids, parents, and even grandparents together for games and Bible lessons associated with Harry Potter. The most popular of these is playing “Muggle Quidditch” a rousing combination of dodge ball, water-balloon fight, soccer, keep-away and a foot race all played firmly on the ground.

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Rave Reviews for Speaking Appearances by Connie Neal on MySpace for Moms and Dads

(Santa Ana, CA March 25, 2007)

"Connie Neal's seminar was fantastic. We had a full room with a number of visitors to our class, which I was so pleased about. Connie was extremely practical and very down to earth. Where I had assumed she was going to condemn MySpace, instead she recognized the reality of it and encouraged us all to check it out and see the good in it. Then, as parents, we would be able to put in controls for privacy and security. She was a great speaker, very engaging, but, again, down to earth. She is a parent with teens, herself, so it made her presentation all the more credible."

~ Susie Alexander, Parents of Teens Class Coordinator, Calvary Church of Santa Ana

(Renton, WA March 3, 2007) " thought the topic and information were highly relevant and much-needed for parents, and I thought your presentation of that information was concise, engaging, and entirely usable. Unfortunately, I was only able to catch about 30 minutes of your presentation but what I did catch was really good!

Many parents are, in fact, intimidated by technology, and I thought your approach was very user-friendly and very sensitive to that fact. A web page can be overwhelmingly foreign to some, and I thought you were very effective in cutting through all the “noise” and directing your audience to where they needed to be.

I also very much enjoyed your presentation as a whole. Your use of Powerpoint was outstanding – interesting to the eye (pictures rather than lots of words) and attention-grabbing as well in the content/nature of those pictures. I also loved your analogies. I thought the whole “neighborhoods” thing was really effective at capturing the scope and perspective of “My Space”, and the pictures and stories of your trip there drew us in and drove the point home. . . . Trust me – it was good!"

~ Wes Shimaura, Parent of Teens, Highland Community Church, Renton, WA