Restoring the Glory
"Those who look to Him are radiant: their faces are never covered with shame." Ps. 34:5
Restoring the Glory is a dynamic and unique conference exploring God’s design for real relationships, meaningful intimacy, and authentic sexuality. Its overarching message is hopeful and life giving, offering genuine support for people at any stage in their journey towards intimacy with God or others. Special testimonies from men and women who have experienced the wonder of God’s grace and love are often highlights of this event as well as heart-felt worship, healing prayer, drama, film, art, and music.
Founder and Director of Desert Hope Ministries, Janelle Hallman, is the main speaker at the conference. In the past, Janelle has worked with a team of other professionals and ministers to supplement her speaking. Typically, local ministries and Christian specialists are relied upon to provide educational and healing workshops on the final day of the conference.
All conference speakers are prepared to discuss topics related to sexuality, gender, intimacy and associated struggles from an extremely frank and direct perspective, yet with a spirit of openness and compassion. Conference speakers strive to be genuine as they share their own personal struggles and speak from their hearts.
Who Should Attend and Why? The conference is designed to appeal to a variety of populations, including married, single, male and female, lay people, mentors, professional counselors, parachurch ministers, and clergy. The age of conference attendees typically ranges from 16 (with adult) to 80 years old. Here are some of the comments people have made about Restoring the Glory:
"I'm 68 years old and this (conference) has been one of the greatest blessings of my life." - Conference attendee
 "In all my years of ministry, this ranked as one of the best conferences I have ever attended. I found myself thinking, 'I wish the entire church could be here to experience this.' Janelle took us through the Bible from cover to cover and laid a case for God's design and plan for us as male and female in a way that was unlike anything I had ever heard before in its comprehensiveness and approach. In holding up the truth, she clearly and deftly exposed the distortions and lies that our society (as well as the church) has bought into." - Pastor
"This conference changed my life." - 23 year old female
"Knowing God's will regarding sex has lifted a tremendous burden from me. I wish everyone could have the opportunity to attend this." - 29 year old male
"Do you know what this conference was? It was three days of pure worship in which every instant God Himself proclaimed, 'Here is My heart, dear children-you are My beloved.' You did a fabulous job of bringing to life what would usually be left to the black and white of a printed page. How much better this was to draw the wounded so directly into experiencing God's passion for them (us)!" - 40 year old female
"This conference was amazing: the worship, the testimonies, and the speakers' genuine passion. I pray that you will take this show on the road; people everywhere need this!" - A Conference Attendee
What Will Happen?
Besides experiencing potential major paradigm shifts in terms of one's image of God, image of self, and image of others, most folks who attend these conferences benefit in the following ways:  Learning - About the mystery and inherent glory of human love, intimacy, and sexual wholeness
Confessing - Individual and cultural idolatry and false ways of living and relating Healing - Taking steps towards recovering their true identity and original glory as male or female
Celebrating - Gaining strength for their ongoing journey towards wholeness and meaningful intimacy
Conference Schedule
Thursday Evening
Opening: Longing for Authentic Connection Testimony: Special Guest Closing: Finding our Deepest Desires Friday Morning
Experiencing Real Relationships The Faces of True Love Friday Afternoon
In His Image: Declaring His Glory His Image and Glory Under Attack Friday Evening
Male and Female: What's it all About? Testimony: Special Guest Saturday Morning
Restoring the Glory: Finding Our Missing Pieces Workshop Saturday Afternoon
Workshop Testimony: Special Guest Dare to Desire and Live with Longings Closing: An Ancient Journey Conference History
The majority of the material presented at this conference was developed by Janelle as a result of counseling, educating, and ministering in the area of sexual and relational brokenness for the past twenty years. As a popular national and international speaker, her passion is to share God's word in a way that speaks to the deepest needs of the human heart. For more information on Janelle [pick here]. Janelle and her team have produced over five city-wide conferences over the past seven years:
Lookout Mountain Community Church 2002
Good Shepherd Church 2004
Lookout Mountain Community Church 2004
First Presbyterian Church of Boulder 2005
Church in the City 2006 Exodus Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (portions of conference) 2007
Pastor's Forum in Maputo, Mozambique sponsored by
Conference CD's and DVD's
A full set of all 11 teachings and testimonies (excluding individual workshops) is available on CD or DVD. The conference was recorded live and therefore the production varies in terms of quality of picture and sound. The CD set costs $110, the DVD $140. To place an order, you may print out the Product Order Form and send your check and order to Desert Hope Ministries or you may view a complete Product Listing of all printed, audio and video resources produced by Janelle Hallman and Desert Hope.
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