Renowned American mental healing preacher, author and mental health advocate Kay Warren will be speaking to Rwandan women at a conference that will take place later this month. Having lost her 27-year-old son Matthew to suicide in 2013, Warren has been a strong advocate for mental health, and she has been traveling to different places across the world teaching people especially parents about mental health, urging them not to ignore, stigmatize or trivialize the mental health challenges that may be faced by their children or other members of society. Together with her husband Rick, they are the founders of Saddleback Church in California, USA, the sixth-largest evangelical mega-church in the country. Kay Warren is an American author, international speaker, Bible teacher, and mental health advocate. She is the co-founder of the sixth-largest evangelical mega-church in the United States, Saddleback Church. She will be one of the invited preachers in an online women’s conference dubbed “Refresh Women” organised by New Life Bible Church in Kigali. One of the goals of her ministry is to equip churches and families to better minister to people living with mental illnesses while shining a light on topics that are traditionally “taboo in the church.” At the conference, she will be joined by other preachers including Reverend Antoine Rutayisire of St. Peter’s Remera Parish of the Anglican Church, Pastor Grace Serwanga the Senior Pastor of Liberty Christian Fellowship – in London-UK, among others, talking about topics inline with church revival. The Refresh Conference has been happening since 2004 as an annual womens conference, targeting all women and girls in Rwanda and beyond, aimed at impacting lives through preaching and teaching. Last year’s edition had audiences from across Africa, USA, Middle East, UK, and Rwanda, as it was graced by different international speakers including Darlene Zschech an Australian Worship Singer and founder of the Hillsong choir.
