Speaking

A timeless message of hope for today’s challenges

Deep wisdom.
Hopeful encouragement.

Jill delivers a timeless message with winsome charm to multi-generational audiences that draws them out of their comfort zone and into the light of Truth. Whether speaking to 25 or 5,000, this dynamic lady will captivate your attendees with deep biblical wisdom and hopeful encouragement, delivered through masterful storytelling.

For Parents

As parents seek to raise children in a culture gone mad, they are faced with rising rates of suicide, anxiety, and depression among today’s young people. If we search God’s Word for the answer, we discover it is not a mental health crisis we’re dealing with, but a crisis of the heart.

Scripture teaches that the content of the heart, whether good, bad, or ugly, informs what a child will think, say, or do. Given the narrow window in which a child’s worldview is formed, parents are under tremendous pressure to get it right.

Here you will find practical wisdom that will equip you to raise a generation of StrongHearts: morally courageous kids who are grounded in truth and fortified with self-respect who will be able to overcome the trials of life to become all God created them to be.

  • FOR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND GUARDIANS

    Jill offers sound advice that will equip you to raise StrongHearts, morally courageous children, grounded in Truth and fortified with self-respect, who will be able to overcome the trials of life and resist the temptations of our culture to become all God created them to be. Your StrongHeart will affect the world for good rather than become infected by it.

    You will be equipped to:

    • Protect your child from the culture

    • Help your child develop Humble Confidence

    • Encourage bravery so your child will stand when others can't

    • Prepare your child to accept God's purpose for their life

    • Undergird your child's spiritual development with The Armor Prayer

    * Can be presented as a six-week parent study. Study guide & facilitator guide available.

    * Popular as a Family Weekend Retreat. (See below for more details)

  • FOR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND GUARDIANS

    This powerful message offers the hard truth about today’s society while giving hope for tomorrow through practical guidance, real life examples, and wisdom for raising today’s children. For parents who want to foster strong values, Jill offers sound advice from scriptural principles as she motivates parents to take back control and re-establish the standards that have been slowly disappearing from our homes and society. Based on the award-winning book, you’ll find the parenting answers that have eluded you. For the sake of your children, this talk will help you:

    • Be the kind of person you want your children to become.

    • Replace self-esteem with self-respect as your parenting goal.

    • Engage your children, not entertain them.

    • Coach, not cheerlead your kids.

    • Set boundaries without building walls between you and your children.

    • Establish respect as the foundation of your home.

    * Can be presented as a six-week parent study. Study guide & facilitator guide available.

    * Popular as a Family Weekend Retreat. (See below for more details)

  • PARENTS’ NIGHT | WORKSHOP | SEMINAR

    An action taken to change an inappropriate behavior constitutes effective discipline. Too often, we choose a form of punishment that may stop the wrong behavior in the moment, but doesn’t bring about a change in attitude to prevent the difficulties in the future. In this workshop, learn the most effective discipline that puts boundaries in place without building walls between you and your child.

  • PARENTS’ NIGHT | WORKSHOP | SEMINAR

    Recognizing we need to help our children develop esteem for others and respect for themselves, four stages of child development, each with two “soul questions” that children need satisfied, are explained in this discussion-based workshop. Parents will identify the root causes of struggles in their children from birth to young adulthood. Clear goals and best training methods are defined that enable parents to help their children grow in maturity and responsibility.

  • FOR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND GUARDIANS

    Jill shines the light of reality on the failed self-esteem philosophy so parents can gently “bump” their children off self-center. Parents are equipped to instill an others-centered heart and a healthy self-respect in their children. Jill will help you discover how to:

    • Meet your children’s needs, not their wants.

    • Educate your children’s hearts in forgiveness, generosity and compassion.

    • Offer children an “others-centered” approach to life rather than a self-centered one.

    • Build family togetherness.

    • Make a difference in the world.

  • FOR MOMS AND DADS

    Betrayed? Abandoned? Terrified? In this most personal presentation, Jill helps you learn how to allow God to reorder your priority list when your circumstances change. If you put yourself on the top of your list, that’s telling God you can take care of yourself. Jill tried many times to put herself on the top of her priority list after her husband left home. God made His truth perfectly clear—He would take care of her, if she kept her eyes on Him. Scripture tells us in Psalm 68 that “God will take care of the fatherless children and the widows, too.” A single parent is always on the top of God’s priority list. Allow Him to help you:

    • Learn the antidote for bitterness.

    • Find a safe place for feelings of anger and disappointment in you and your children.

    • Cultivate the desire to extend the love of Christ to the one who has broken your heart.

    • Learn how to grow into a new future God has planned for you.

“No wonder my kids drive me crazy!
Jill helped me see that it’s me I need to work on
so I can help my kids.”

— Bloomington, IL

PARENTING WEEKEND WORKSHOP

Heart of the Family Weekend

In the three sessions offered during this weekend event, parents learn practical advice that will equip them to raise children with self-respect who will affect the world for good rather than become infected by it. Parents will learn how to:

  • Replace self-esteem with self-respect as their parenting goal.

  • Establish their home on a foundation of respect to counteract outside influences.

  • Coach not cheerlead their children.

  • Use effective discipline rather than ineffective punishment.

  • Champion respect by striving to be the persons they want their children to become.

Instead of magnifying children’s innate self-esteem, parents learn how to help their children see beyond themselves to esteem others. In the process, their children will develop humble hearts filled with respect and resiliency, which is what they truly need to succeed in life.

“On Friday, I believed self-esteem and self-respect were synonyms. By Saturday, I understood they are not. Thank you for boldly speaking the truth.”

— Menlo Park, CA

“The classes taught me how to be a coach instead of a cheerleader. To raise my kids with self-respect not self-esteem and teach them to help others and talk to them about goals and values.”

— Baton Rouge, LA

For Women

I believe I can help you find your true self—the woman God created you to be. The deeper I’ve studied, the more I have come to realize there are timeless truths that transcend the generations. These truths have been lost in the busy, consumer-driven world in which we live and raise families today. 

Whether you’re single, grandmother, mother, daughter, or sister, I join the apostle Paul in praying “that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people.” 

Through the window, you will discover God’s purpose for you in His grand plan.

  • WOMENS’ RETREAT

    Oh, the joy of obedience! Jill shares how obedience is truly greater than sacrifice because obedience unlocks our hearts to receive God’s blessings. Learn how to “run in the path of His commands, so He can set our hearts free.” When we give up not just our desires, but ourselves, we find freedom to become who God created us to be. With brutally honest personal illustrations, Jill will help you work through the three stages of abandonment in this three-part women’s event:

    • “No, Lord, not me” Bondage to self. (Job’s wife, Lot’s wife)

    • “Well, maybe, Lord” Praise and thanksgiving. (Hannah)

    • “Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!” Freedom to become all He created you to be. (Mary)

  • JILL’S TESTIMONY FOR WOMEN

    As an interior designer by trade, Jill was trained in how to make things look good. She could turn a house into a showplace with a hot glue gun and a bolt of fabric. Jill was a master at making everything look good from the outside, including things that weren’t good at all. When the façade she built around her began to crumble, she was forced to work on the inside.

    In this most revealing presentation, Jill reminds us that while we’re busy making our homes places of beauty; we cannot neglect to make our hearts beautiful, too. It takes a beautiful heart to make a house a beautiful home.

    Jill will lead ladies to consider the transforming power of:

    • Asking the Lord to show you what you do not want to see.

    • Refusing to be swayed by cultural expectations.

    • Seeking the wisdom of scripture in preparing your home.

    • Accepting it’s what’s on the inside that really counts.

  • KEYNOTE | LUNCHEON | SINGLE EVENT

    Psalm 34 tells us “If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right there…if you’re kicked in the gut, He’ll help you catch your breath.” In this surprisingly humorous talk, Jill will convince you that no matter how badly you’ve messed up, no matter how deeply you’re hurting, no matter how disappointed you are in another, messes are still part of God’s plan for your life. We can’t “out-mess” God because His mercy is deep enough to clean up even our biggest messes, if we’ll let Him:

    • Learn how to allow God to make something beautiful from your messiest mess.

    • Discover how to have peace in the midst of turmoil.

    • Find confidence to stand tall in the face of humiliation and disappointment.

  • KEYNOTE | LUNCHEON | SINGLE EVENT

    Wonder what’s behind Jill’s smile? In this moving presentation, Jill shares the intimate story of how God brought her from despair to deliverance. Just when she thought her life was over, God shined His light into her darkness to reveal His plan for her life. Funny thing was, He was there all along, she just couldn’t see Him. Jill shares what she has learned:

    • The trials of life are preparation for God’s fulfillment of His purpose in your life.

    • Assurance that God always sees you, even when you don’t see Him.

    • Deliverance comes when you give up, not when you give in.

  • CHRISTMAS EVENT

    Jill was part of a two-woman team who brought the return of the live nativity to their church many years ago. What began as a curbside presentation grew into a treasured event that hundreds now attend. Hear the touching story of how generations were reunited, unsuspecting passersby found the true meaning of the season and children received the Gospel message. Have your faith renewed and your hope restored as this fresh perspective of Christmas helps you:

    • Create new traditions for your Christmas celebration.

    • Learn how to keep Jesus on the top of your family’s Christmas list.

    • Experience the Gospel through the eyes of a child.

“At the window, we see beyond ourselves and our circumstances to become all God created us to be.”

The Mirror or The Window

WOMEN’S RETREAT

JILL’S SIGNATURE PRESENTATION

Grounded in scripture, sprinkled with music and interactive activities, in
“The Mirror or The Window” women discover the fallacies of the world’s offerings. Women find true rest at the window where they see into the heart of God who loves them unconditionally.

This message brings hope to your hopelessness and gives you a new perspective on life by:

• Identifying the areas in your life that are keeping you stuck in the mirror.

• Shattering your self-centeredness and developing “others-centeredness.”

• Establishing new routines and patterns that bring joy to day-to-day living.

• Finding God’s truth about loving yourself.

* Adaptable as a keynote or luncheon presentation

“I filled my study guide so I can reread it
until I fully understand how to get out of the mirror”

— Wichita, Kansas

“We were truly blessed to have Jill speak at our annual women’s event. She is a wonderful author and speaker with a compelling life story to share. Our women loved hearing her speak and were captivated by her words. Her heart for service and passion for teaching children is an inspiration. The vision of the Manners of the Heart organization is beautiful as well in that it encourages children to live kind, giving lives of purpose and integrity. I highly recommend Jill Garner and Manners of the Heart!”

— Jan Gregory, Murfreesboro, Tennessee