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SPCK Authors Speaking at Creation Fest 2024!
Discover the amazing SPCK authors speaking at Creation Fest this year - Lauren Windle, Shell Perris, and Natalie Collins.
Creation Fest 2024 is taking place next week! Creation Fest is a free, gospel-centered skate and music festival in Cornwall, UK. This year, there is a stellar lineup of speakers - including several of our inspirational SPCK authors: Lauren Windle, Shell Perris, and Natalie Collins.
Scroll down to learn more about the festival this year and our fantastic authors who will be speaking at the event!
Creation Fest 2024
When: 1-4 August
Where: The Royal Cornwall Events Centre, Wadebridge
Full Programme: can be found here
For more information about Creation Fest 2024, click here.
SPCK Speakers at Creation Fest 2024:
Lauren Windle is a journalist, presenter and public speaker, published by Vogue, Marie Claire, HuffPost, Red magazine, MailOnline, The Sun Online, Fabulous Digital, The Star, Church Times and others. She also heads up the digital opinion page for Premier Christianity’s Woman Alive and presents Third Wheel Dates, a show on dating app Salt’s YouTube channel. On 22 April 2014 Lauren got clean and sober from a cocaine and alcoholaddiction and became a Christian five days later. She has a degree in Neuroscience and a Master’s in Addiction Studies, runs a charity recovery course for people struggling with addiction and, in 2018, gave a TEDx Talk about her personal story of addiction and recovery that has been viewed half a million times. She can recite virtually every word of the BBC’s 1995 dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice by heart and never says no to a Toby Carvery.
Lauren is the author of Notes on Feminism and Notes on Love. Notes on Feminism is an insightful and entertaining book that offers readers a chance to wrestle with what it truly means to be a faithful feminist today. Notes on Love is a humorous and heart-felt look at being single and dating in the Church for a generation of Christians wrestling with what it means to love and be loved today.
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Shell Perris is a wife, a mum of 4 boys, a singer/songwriter and Director of Imagine Ministries - home of ‘ALIVE’ Family Worship. She heads up ‘Imagine For Schools’ - working with primary school teachers, pupils and families delivering resilience and emotional well-being workshops/training. She has also been interviewed and featured on God TV Standing Together. Shell was a member of Christian girl band, “TBC”, and has released four solo albums and several books and speaks at churches, conferences, and events throughout the UK.
Shell is the author of God's Promises for Everyone. A beautiful gift book with reassuring and encouraging words about God's promises to treasure with Bible verse references to remind everyone of God's faithfulness.
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Natalie Collins has been working to address domestic abuse issues for over a decade, working directly with women subjected to abuse and domestic abuse perpetrators, and training ordinands, church leaders and congregations on domestic abuse issues. She has delivered keynote addresses both nationally and internationally on the subject, and has spoken alongside Archbishops and UN representatives. Natalie is also the founder of the ‘Fifty Shades is Domestic Abuse’ campaign and has appeared on national television, radio and printed media talking about abuse, consent and women’s rights. She has further written several articles and book contributions on domestic violence, and is the author of the widely used domestic abuse pack for UK churches, the Restored Church Pack.
Natalie is the author of Out of Control. A fully comprehensive book on domestic abuse, offering theological content, personal story and practical advice. Highly readable, invaluably insightful and steeped in theological insight, Natalie starts right from the basics, exploring what domestic abuse is, why it is perpetrated and the impact it has on children and adults. Filled with case studies, including Natalie's own story, this book offers much-needed advice on how we can address domestic abuse, both as individuals and as a church community.
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