2014 WITNESS SPEAKER
Karen Lewis Bobbitt
Our Witness Speaker, Karen Lewis Bobbitt, has already blessed us by writing some of our WMOS articles. Now we will hear her story of hope, surrender, trust, and ultimately, gratitude as Our Blessed Mother continuously guides her to a closer relationship with God. A cradle Catholic and native Memphian, she attended St. John School and graduated from Memphis Catholic High School. She and Mike, her husband of 38 years, are members of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. She is active in her church community serving as a Eucharistic Minister, Lector, Greeter and Minister to the Sick.
Karen’s passion and love are with the Memphis Cursillo Movement, as she has served on six teams, most recently as Rectora for Cursillo #97. Karen works full time within the medical community. She and Mike have been blessed by two children, Chad, who passed away in 2004 after a five year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and Allison, an amazing young woman and mother of their four beautiful grandchildren.
2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Kelly Wahlquist
Our Keynote Speaker, Kelly Wahlquist is a dynamic and inspiring Catholic speaker whose gift of weaving personal stories and Scripture together with practical advice allows her audience to enter more fully into what Blessed John Paul II, Pope Emeritus Benedict, and Pope Francis have called us into – to be witnesses of our faith and part of the New Evangelization. Kelly is the Program Manager for the Archbishop Harry J. Flynn Catechetical Institute in the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis, a successful two-year program for the laity that forms them in their Catholic faith. With Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC, she co-created the Hearts Afire Parish-based Programs for the New Evangelization. This successful initiative from the Marians of the Immaculate Conception uses his retreat books 33 Days to Morning Glory and Consoling the Heart of Jesus. She is the editor of Catholicism 101 -a program by Jeff Cavins on the basics of Catholicism- and a contributing writer for CatholicMom.com, TheDivineMercy.org and The Integrated Catholic Life, an eMagazine about integrating faith, family and work. Kelly, her husband Andy and their three children live in Minnesota.
2014 POSTER DESIGN
