CONTACT: For information on guest preaching, teaching workshops, or consulting/strategic planning, contact: lmverhage(at)gmail.com
For additional & diverse speakers and resources, please check out these lists:
101 Christian Women and Women of Color Speakers
100 Books by Christian Authors of Color
MORE INFO: Dr. Liz is gifted in preaching and teaching to empower multiethnic and white leaders in congregations, conferences, campuses, and retreats. She loves teaching and training on biblical justice, leadership, racial justice, spiritual health, advocacy and and authorizing women/women of color in both practical ministry and academic settings. She’s spoken and led workshops at events such as CCDA’s National Conference, The Justice Conference, InHabit, World Vision’s Staff Chapel, Christ & Cascadia, the ONE Campaign, World Relief, and Bread for the World’s National Gathering.
She also enjoys doing strategic planning and consulting on-site or online to strengthen the vision, theology, or implementation of ministries, advocacy, organizing, discipleship, and leadership. Examples of this work includes:
– Congregational and Community Assessments for ministry, growth, and strategic plannings
– Racial Justice/Reconciliation and Whiteness experiences and workshops
– Women in Leadership trainings, special events, and gatherings to empower
– Asset-Based Trainings and knowing your context for ministry as non-profits/churches
– Shaping Healthy Global Development with reciprocal values, language and strategy    Â
– Faith-Based Advocacy and How-To’s of Political Engagement
– Mentoring and building capacity in leaders (especially women and white men and women with multi-ethnic calling or contexts), through spiritual discernment, coaching, self-care, and prayer.
She has spoken on, written resources, and consulted on issues such as:
a healthy theology of compassion and justice ministries, understanding the Bible, faith-based advocacy, political organizing, international development, leadership, women in ministry, motherhood and identity, ecclesiology, poverty and homelessness, racism/racial justice, Reconciliation 2.0, understanding whiteness, Sankofa and Journey to Mosaic trips, and embodying the multicultural church.