The Refresh Conference

07/11/2024

Have you seen SOUND of HOPE: The Story of Possum Trot yet? What did you think?

07/06/2024

12 years ago Tristen McGhee and adopted our precious son and this film does the best job of sharing the story of what we have gone through. Please go see this movie this weekend and by doing so you will help change the lives of so many foster kids just by watching it this weekend. Give a voice to these kids who are hurting.

Buy Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot tickets, watch trailers and find showtimes near you.

04/12/2023

SoCal Moms, come to the One-Day Refresh for Moms. We have 25 ticket left.

Come to a 12-hour day of inspiration, healing and tools you’ll experience and take with you.

03/03/2022

Super fun video from the conference today! Thanks Scott and Band!

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02/26/2022

02/25/2022

Refresh Speaker Highlight
Kay Warren cofounded Saddleback Church with her husband, Rick Warren, in Lake Forest, California in 1980. She also cofounded the Initiative for Vulnerable Children with Elizabeth Styffe at Saddleback. After the death of her son, Matthew, who lived with serious mental illness for most of his life, she founded another initiative, Saddleback’s Hope for Mental Health as a way to support individuals and family members of loved ones with mental illness and suicidal ideation. The Initiative also trains others in the faith community how to launch or expand existing mental health ministries.

Kay is a board member of the National Action Alliance for Su***de Prevention and is active in mental health/suicide prevention efforts in Orange County, Ca. Kay is the author of Sacred Privilege: Your Life and Ministry as a Pastor’s Wife, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn’t Enough, Say Yes to God: A Call to Courageous Surrender, and coauthor of Foundations, a popular systematic theology course used by churches worldwide. Her children are Amy and Josh, and Matthew (who is in heaven), and she has five grandchildren.

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02/24/2022

Refresh Speaker Highlight
Lynne is well entrenched in the story of adoption. She is an adult adoptee that adopted internationally as a single woman over 16 years ago. After marrying, she and her husband fostered and then recently adopted a sibling set from the foster care system. Having done her master’s thesis and practice on adoption issues, she is passionate about equipping parents for the journey. Lynne serves on staff as the missions pastor at Overlake Christian Church in WA, participating with trauma care and healing for marginalized groups around the world. She loves traveling, driving her Jeep and hanging with her family. .ellisgray

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02/23/2022

Refresh Speaker Highlight
Maria is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked with kids from hard places for the past 22 years, currently working as a School Counselor in a beautiful inner city community in Phoenix Arizona. Maria has worked in three different states and six different schools. Maria is a sought after trauma and diversity trainer. In 2008 Maria became a TBRI trained practitioner through the Dr. Karyn Purvis Institute, and in 2022 she received a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate through Cornell University. Maria also has a Masters in clinical Social Work from Rutgers University and a Bachelors in Psychology from Trinity Western University. She has authored two children’s books: “Be Different & Be Kind, A Story About Diversity” & “Hope.” Maria calls herself a precious jewels mamma as she & her husband Sam (an adult adoptee) have 11 jewels, 9 adopted and 2 biological. ​​

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02/18/2022

Our first glimpse of March from the weather guru...

02/10/2022

Hope the weather holds!

02/10/2022

Refresh is a Christian conference designed for foster and adoptive parents, kinship providers, grandparents, and others who care for vulnerable children.

Join us at Saddleback Church in Southern California on March 2-4 and escape from the distractions and chaos of life and be refreshed, equipped, and inspired. We understand firsthand that this journey can be difficult and what it takes.

Register today at therefreshconference.org