March 23, 2025
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. – A pastor’s wife, speaker and writer who works to make disciples by cultivating a passion for God’s word will be a headliner at this year’s Georgia Baptist Women’s Spring Event.
Kandi Gallaty who, with her husband Robby Gallaty, leads Replicate Ministries, an effort to educate, equip and empower believers to make disciples who make disciples.
Gallaty is but one of a strong lineup of speakers for the Spring Event set for April 21-22 at Second Baptist Church in Warner Robins.
“The goal is for women to experience community with other Christ-followers as we are inspired to grow closer to Him and to each other through powerful worship and teaching,” said Beth Ann Williams, lead strategist for Georgia Baptist Women. “We want women to embrace the challenge to explore how you are living on mission as a disciple-maker and leave with a strong connection to the Georgia Baptist Women family.”
Gallaty, a member of Long Hollow Baptist Church near Nashville, is author of DiscipleHer, her latest Bible study. She also is coauthor of Foundations, which she wrote with her husband.
In addition to Gallaty, missionaries and ministry partners from Georgia and beyond will lead a variety of conferences at the Spring Event.
Southern Baptist missionaries from South Asia will share the story of their calling to share the gospel overseas. They’ll also share how God is moving in the area they serve and talk about how Georgia women can be involved in praying for and working among the lost in South Asia.
Truett McConnell University assistant professor Natalie Ford, a counselor at the Northeast Georgia Counseling Center, will lead a discussion about people who are struggling with mental illness, sometimes without the support of a Christian family. Ford will share practical ways churches can love and support people impacted by mental illness.
Dawn Stephens, women’s minister at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, will discuss ways to care for victims of abuse. Stephens will talk candidly about a culture where abuse seems to be rampant and where parents worry about their children’s safety. She will focus on ways to be aware of the dangers and how best to help those impacted.
Linda Cooper, president of the Kentucky Woman’s Missionary Union and a dental hygienist who shares Christ with her patients, will discuss creative ways to tell others about Jesus. In a conference titled Let Me Tell You About My Jesus, Cooper will remind Georgia women that lost and hurting people are all around them, every day, and they’re hungry for the gospel.
Lizzie Attaway, women’s ministry director at Crossroads Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia, will lead a session on how to know and love God better through the study of His Word. She’ll talk about the importance of having the right Bible study tools for women who may be struggling with their Bible reading.
Three Georgia WMU leaders – state prayer coordinator Margaret Kelley, executive board member Kay Cochran, and President Lauren Sullens -- will discuss a new prayer partnership that will focus specifically on an unreached people group in southeast Asia. It’s a people group that has no known believers. They will explain how Georgia women can directly impact the spread of the gospel by familiarizing themsleves with the people group so that they can pray more effectively.
Belinda Harris, a member of the Georgia Baptist Literacy Missions Team, will explain how churches can partner with local schools to help third grade children become good readers through sight word practice. Harris will explain how churches can change the futures of children simply by devoting one hour per week to the Read Georgia ministry.
Theresa Little, who is on staff at the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, will discuss the need for churches to be engaged in ministry to widows and widowers. A widow herself, Little will encourage churches to establish grief ministries while sharing practical ways to let widows and widowers know they are not forgotten, that they are loved and needed by the church.
Mary Cox, women’s ministry director at North Metro Baptist Church in Lawrencevillle, will discuss marriage as a gift of God and look at ways for women to strengthen relationships with their husbands. She will explore practical ways to build a dynamic marriage because, she said, “no matter how long we have been married, there is always room for us to grow in our relationship with one another.”
Yunhee Sym, a pastor’s wife, professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed marriage and family therapist in North Carolina, will discuss parenting. She will look at how a mother’s upbringing, unresolved issues, family values, and popular psychology, are reflected in the way they parent. She will also lead a session on recovery from depression.
