Speaking
Invite Sara to Speak at Your Next Event
Thank you for your presentation during the annual conference for the National Guard Association of Louisiana. I received numerous compliments on your behalf. The women who attended the Spouse’s Brunch were grateful for your comments and thoughts. Several of the attendees said it was the best spouses function in a long time. My wife along with several other wives who have endured deployment in the past said your presentation was very relevant and honest. They all agreed this would be an excellent pre-deployment presentation for family members. – Major Dirk Erickson,Event Coordinator, NGALA
We invited Sara to speak at our local military wives ministry, The Lantern, and I can’t say enough about Sara and her team at Wives of Faith! From setting up the speaking engagement to solidifying details to giving the message at The Lantern – the ladies were the epitome of professionalism and love for the Lord and the military community. Sara was more than happy to prepare a message that would meet our ladies right where they are and provide sound encouragement that we all so desperately need. By the overwhelming positive response from all attendees, it was clear that Sara relied on the Word and her experiences to prepare a truly God-breathed message that impacted everyone who had the privilege to hear it. We are so thankful for Sara’s heart and willingness to encourage military wives through some of life’s most difficult times. For anyone who wants to be moved by God’s beautiful promises, I absolutely recommend inviting Sara Horn to speak; you will be left only wanting more! – Mya Parker, Founder, The Lantern Clarksville
Sara enjoys speaking to different groups and sharing her heart on issues that matter most to her. We are currently booking speaking dates for 2010 and 2011! Contact Leanne Keirstead, Sara’s booking coordinator, if you would like to learn how Sara can be a part of your next event.
Sara will customize her talk to fit your group’s needs, whether it’s a spouse club, Bible study or deployment briefing. Below are suggested topics for the various groups Sara enjoys speaking to. (Click on topic links below to be taken to the topic description or click on the image of the speaking kit to download and print out Sara’s speaking information.)
Military Spouses (spouse brunches, spouse club meetings, FRG meetings, deployment briefings, homecoming briefings, military spouse appreciation events, book clubs, Bible study groups, military marriage retreats)
• Building a Strong Marriage
• Preparing for Deployment
• Positive Things You Can Do to Help Your Children During Deployment
• The “Suddenly” Military Wife
• Becoming GOD Strong
• Seeing God Through the Tough Times
• Ways to Stay Busy During Deployment
Military Service Members (deployment briefings, family support trainings, military appreciation banquets/programs)
• Understanding Your Military Spouse During Deployment
• Don’t be a Stranger: Keeping the Communication Lines Open While You’re Gone
Churches (military ministry support groups, Bible study groups, military appreciation banquets/programs, patriotic-themed events)
• A Greater Freedom: Stories of Faith from Operation Iraqi Freedom
• The Sacrifices You Don’t Always See
• Serving Those Who Serve
Topic Descriptions
A Greater Freedom: Stories of Faith from Operation Iraqi Freedom
Sara shares story after story of the bravery, courage and faith of sailors and soldiers she met while reporting on board the USS Harry S. Truman and later in Baghdad the first year of the war. You will be inspired and challenged as you hear about the fighter pilot who prayed for his leaders, the young sniper who found God’s protection, and the Iraqi pastor yearning for a new kind of freedom in Baghdad.
The Sacrifices You Don’t Always See
Most understand and pay tribute to the ultimate sacrifice that many of our country’s military have made but what about those unseen and hidden sacrifices? What are the struggles that face military families after the flags are waved and the homecoming banners are put away? Sara talks about some of those challenges and the hardships military couples and families can experience, including marital problems, PTSD-related issues and the sometimes difficult reunion military families must face after long separations.
Serving Those Who Serve
Do you have a heart for military families but don’t know how to help? Does your church or community group have a vision for supporting military families in your community? Sara shares ideas for helping military spouses, couples and families and walks your group through coming up with practical and meaningful ways to minister to military families.
Understanding Your Military Spouse during Deployment
As multiple deployments have taken their toll and military marriages have crumbled under the strain, all of the military branches have started making family and marriage a priority for service members’ training. So as your unit goes through pre-deployment briefings, why not include a session to help service members understand what their spouses will be dealing with back home while they’re away?
Based on her own experiences as a military spouse who has lived through deployment, Sara will walk your soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines through the emotional stages of deployment their spouses may encounter while they’re away and offer tips and suggestions on how they can keep close to their spouses and their children through mobilization and deployment.
Don’t Be a Stranger: Keeping the Communication Lines Open While You’re Gone
Sara offers creative ideas and ways deploying service members can keep in touch with their spouses and their children while serving overseas.
Building a Strong Marriage
Sara will walk military wives through the four parts you need to have a strong marriage when you’re married to a military man. Prepare to be encouraged, inspired and challenged and come away with a desire to make your marriage stronger than it was yesterday.
Preparing for Deployment
Deployment can be overwhelming if you allow it to be. Having been through deployment herself, Sara will offer her positive insights and hopeful encouragement to spouses with tips and ideas on how to make deployment manageable. Spouses will discover practical and helpful ways to cope and realize that life does not have to be put on hold until their service members come home.
Positive Things You Can Do to Help Your Children during Deployment
Deployment can be a difficult thing for children, young or old, to understand. As a parent, you want to help your child find positive ways of dealing with their other parent’s absence. As a mom of an 8-year-old son who walked him through their first deployment when he was 6, Sara has developed many ideas and creative techniques parents can use to keep their children connected to their deployed parent.
The “Suddenly” Military Wife
Since 2001, more than 750,000 Guard and Reserve members have mobilized and deployed in support of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, Guard and Reserve spouses have seen their worlds change drastically. Since many Guard/Reserve families do not live near their respective military installations, the chance for disconnection and lack of information is much greater for these spouses than for active military spouses.
As the wife of a Navy reservist, Sara is passionate about connecting Guard and Reserve spouses with information, and the confidence that they can meet the challenges that come with deployment. Sara will lead spouses in what they can expect with deployment and help identify some of the emotions they will experience. Ways to deal with those emotions will also be discussed.
Becoming GOD Strong
Military wives often convince themselves that they can be military strong, handling everything themselves and requiring help from no one. But that isn’t God’s plan.
Based on her new book, GOD Strong: A Military Wife’s Spiritual Survival Guide, which releases in February 2010, Sara will walk wives through some of the spiritual truths God has for us as military wives including relying on God’s strength and not our own, facing fear and overcoming loneliness.
Seeing God through the Tough Times
There are hard and difficult emotions a military spouse faces during deployment. Anger, loneliness, anxiety and mental disorganization are just a few of the things a spouse can struggle with. Sara will touch on each one of these emotions and offer positive and encouraging spiritual insights to help wives deal with these sometimes devastating issues that can occur.
Ways to Stay Busy During Deployment
While many wives struggle to get it all done as they enter “suddenly single” mode during a deployment, others find themselves lost, wondering what to do and wishing they had more to do. Based on Sara’s first e-book, The Busy Book, wives will learn almost a hundred different ideas to stay busy. Goal-setting will be discussed as well as pacing and rewarding yourself as the deployment progresses.
