CONFERENCES

Christian Midwives Conference 2013
Rincon, Georgia
April 22-27, 2013

Lodging and Information About the Conference

The New Ebenezer Retreat is a welcoming haven in Rincon, Georgia – a small rural town enclave with a population of under 9,0000. Rincon is peaceful, wooded and serene – just 20 miles from downtown Savannah. The rural area and our quiet environment lends itself to times of rest and contemplation.

New Ebenezer Retreat Center in Rincon GA

REGISTRATION

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CONFERENCE PRICES and INFORMATION:

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CONFERENCE OPTIONS

Conference Registration (with out lodging) $260.00

(everyone needs to sign up for this. Then you make a choice to which lodging you require-lodging options are listed below)

LODGING OPTIONS

No Lodging, No Meals

No Lodging, Meals only ($50.00 total)

Family Life Center/with meals-per person- ($144.00 total)–(bunk beds/ 8 per room)

Dorm Cottages /with meals-per person- ($188.00 total) –(bunk beds/6 per room)

Private Cottages/with meals-per person- ($248.00 total) –(Twin beds/2 per room)

Sign up early to get your choice of lodging! Registration is set so as you register– EXAMPLE: if you want a private cottage–(there are only a certain number of them available)– as the private cottages fill during the registration process and payment is received-it will only allow you to register for the room if it is still available. If you have any questions please contact Edie @ midwifeedie@gmail.com

BEDDING OPTIONS

I will bring my own bedding/linens

I will require linen services ($5.00)

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS (Monday-April 22)

8 am -12pm IV Therapy and Phlebotomy ($50.00) (sign up early limited number of participants allowed)

8am -12pm Neonatal Resuscitation ($75.00)* (limited number of participants allowed, please sign up early)

*NRP test must be done no sooner than one month in advance, and the test is done on line. There is a separate fee for the test, you will pay at the time you take the test.

**Both classes are limited in the number of participants that can register. Please sign up early.

CEU’s

MEAC CEU’s ($25.00)

FUN EXTRAS!

Low Country Boil ($15.00)

Tour of Savannah ($50.00)

Museum and Tour ($5.00)

TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS from the AIR PORT (Round Way Trip)

The Savannah International Airport is only 25 minutes from the New Ebenezer Retreat Center. Even as you travel the roads to our peaceful location, you will unwind and feel the relaxation settle in for your retreat experience as you drive ever deeper into the beauty of our area.

I do not require transportation

I do require transportation ($10.00)

NOTE: There are no refunds available.

Disclaimer:

Prices subject to change with out notice. We reserve the right to correct any and all mistakes with the prices.

Christian Midwives International cannot be held responsible for natural disasters, labor strikes, acts of war or other events that may cause the conference to be rescheduled. Christian Midwives International reserves the right to postpone the conference to another time, date, and if necessary, location. In the event of a conference postponement, no refunds will be issued. In the event of a conference postponement, Registrants can transfer their fees toward the next Christian Midwives International conference.

Christian Midwives International reserves the right to substitute teachers and/or classes. The views and opinions expressed by teachers are their own and may not represent the views and opinions held by Christian Midwives International and its staff and board members. In the event you find views and opinions expressed that do not fit your own, we ask that you, as we “…be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another….”

Conference Speakers

Barbara Lehr was an enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ when He claimed her as His own. He plucked her out of the mire, set her feet on a rock, and has been surprising her ever since with undeserved gifts: a husband, children, and opportunities to minister to women in their childbearing years. She works as a doula, runs the website Christian Doulas, teaches Bradley Childbirth Education courses, and enjoys nourishing her family and friends with delicious food and kind words.

In 1996 Brandi became certified as a Childbirth Educator and Doula. For four years Brandi worked at the Madison County WIC (Woman Infants and Children’s Program) as a lactation consultant. Brandi is an apprentice trained, Certified Professional Midwife. Brandi has been a midwife and has operated Home4Birth, LLC since 2001. She has been a member of the Indiana Midwives Association since 1997 . Brandi became a Certified Community Herbalist in 2011 through Shonda Parker’s Naturally Healthy Course. Brandi has been the Director of Christian Midwives International since 2004.

Carie Means and her family serve as missionaries to Oaxaca, Mexico. She has been a Certified Professional Midwife for over 3 years. Her passion for birth began when she was 18 and attended the very natural and very exhilarating birth of her nephew. She is grateful to her sister for sharing this very intimate experience with her, showing her birth is not scary, but beautiful. Shortly after the birth of Carie’s first child, 14 years ago, she began studying to become a child birth educator, then a doula, and finally a midwife. She studied in a typical homebirth practice, at a high volume birth center, and most recently was able to spend some time with an incredible and very experienced Mexican midwife, Angelina Martinez Miranda. January of this was spent serving pregnant women and their families on the north coast of Honduras. Currently, she and her family are praying God will use her midwifery skills to open doors in hard to reach areas of Oaxaca. Carie wishes that all she does, both with midwifery and in ministering to her family, to be glorifying to God.

Connie Mullen has been in the childbirth profession for over 28 years. She is a Florida Licensed Midwife, South Carolina Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife, Certified Childbirth Educator and AHA Basic Life Support Instructor. In addition, she holds certificates as a childbirth assistant, breastfeeding specialist and fitness instructor. She is a Regional Coordinator and teacher trainer with the Florida Outreach Childbirth Education Program and serves as a midwife preceptor for the Florida Traditional School of Midwifery. Connie is very active in the community working with women’s centers, teen outreach and aiding couples and women seeking alternative childbirth options. Connie and her husband of 30 years are enjoying life with their three grown children and beautiful granddaughter.

Edie Wells is a Certified Professional Midwife, licensed in the state of Wisconsin. She has been married to her husband Jon for 30 years. They have three grown children and one grandchild (the second is due right before the conference).

Edie has a strong interest in the politics and professionalism of midwifery. She has been treasurer for NACPM, the Wisconsin Guild of Midwives, and currently for the North Carolina Midwives’ Alliance.

She has been practicing as a primary midwife in solo practice since 1999, and in the last few years has been honored to travel twice to Panama and three times to Haiti, including two months at Mama Baby Haiti, a birth center in the rural, Northern part of Haiti.

Ireena Keeslar CPM has been a practicing midwife in a rural setting for over 13 years. She currently holds a Virginia state license as a Midwife. In the past, she helped start 2 birthing centers in Indiana, although no longer working at either one, has since went on to start 2 more-both in the state of Michigan where she currently works. She serves families in their home and one of the 2 free standing birth centers in Michigan. In the past, she has worked as a nurse, child birth educator, breast feeding counselor for WIC, and has served on the Indiana State Midwifery organization several times, as well as a current board member for CMI. She is the founder of the Helping Hands Ministry based on Matthew 25:35-40 (Indiana) which has serviced the Lakota since 1992. She enjoys writing, crocheting, knitting, sewing, drawing, painting, photography, gardening, herbal studies, traveling-and most of all, spending time with her husband Scott of 33 years marriage, her 5 grown children and 5 grand children.

Jennifer Vanderlaan began working with pregnant woman as a childbirth educator in 2000. Since that time she has created a volunteer doula program, wrote five books about Christian childbirth, trained as a nurse-midwife, worked in maternal health in six countries and earned a master’s in public health. She continues to study women’s access to health care, while allowing time to meet the reproductive health needs of low income women.

Jill became a nurse in 1971 when she decided going to LPN school beat going the entire senior year with nothing more than a high school diploma. She earned her RN in 1977 and her BS in Education in 1984. She became a Childbirth Educator in 1978. She finished her first MSN in 1999 as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Women’s Health and completed her post graduate certificate in Midwifery in 2003. She has devoted her 40 year career to caring for women, babies and families. She currently is on staff at The Midwife Group and Birth Center in Savannah, Ga (Ga’s only free standing Birth Center). She is married, has two daughters, two son in laws and two granddaughters. She loves sleeping, hiking, biking and sailing.

Kathy Nesper, ATCCE, CD(DONA)
President, Apple Tree Family Ministries
Kathy’s passion to help couples encounter God in childbirth led to her role as co-founder (with the late Helen Wessel) and president of ATFM. She is a certified childbirth educator and certified birth doula who has trained and supported new parents since 1977, soon after the birth of her first child. Kathy is co-author or editor of ATFM’s publications and has written for Childbirth Instructor magazine, Spero News, Mutuality, and others. She has spoken to the American College of Nurse-Midwives, National Family Ministries Conference, California Association of Midwives, Trust Birth Conference, La Leche League state conference, and of course CMI!

Kelley O’Briant received a degree in Cell Biology and Chemistry from Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, NC. She served as a doula and Childbirth Educator for 12 years helping those working with hospital births. She initially received her training as a doula from DONA (2000) and her certification from CAPPA (2001). Currently, she is also a midwifery student with Ancient Arts Midwifery Institute and has worked as an assistant for 2 different midwives for 2 years. In 2007, she purchased Precious Arrows Homebirth and Midwifery Supply and has been blessed to see the business flourish and grow from hard work, sound business practices and a lot of prayer. She is a single mom blessed by six beautifully intelligent and independent thinkers to fill her heart and keep her on her toes ranging in age from 14 to 5.

Kim Brown is a professer of psychology at Ball State University. She has a passionate interest in both the psychology of women and in

developmental psychology. Kim has been teaching at the college level for 15 years. She teaches a variety of topics: Development, Abnormal, Adjustment, Women, Social and Personality. Kim has 2 children; homeschooled all the way through. , Ellen, aged 19 and a college freshman; Luke, aged 15 and a highschool sophomore.

Maryl is a certified, licensed midwife from Portland Oregon who has attended home and birth center births since 1984. She loves teaching at midwifery conferences, serving as adjunct staff at Birthingway College of Midwifery and occasionally writing for Midwifery Today. Maryl frequently travels the world with her pastor/musician husband, Dr. Tim Smith. Their mission-based organization, Worship Without Borders, was created to train, equip, and release worshippers in every culture. Her home contains one husband, one of her four grown children, one very opinionated cat and a strange assortment of indigenous musical instruments. Spare moments are spent creating music, tending her herb garden, playing with her granddaughters and serving as a council member in her local Cherokee Nation community.

Rebekah has been a midwife for 15 years & serves a large variety of families in a busy homebirth practice in NW MN & into ND. She enjoy’s gardening, photography, traveling, visiting with family and friends, sewing, & quilting. Rebekah serves on the board for CMI.

Suzanne Peight, Certified Advanced Women’s Health Herbalist and Lactation Specialist

Suzanne Peight is a Certified Advanced Women’s Health Herbalist (HOH School of Herbology), Lactation Specialist (University of California) and founder of the MotherCare Herbal Company. She is the formulator of MotherCare Herbals, (www.mothercareherbals.com) a full-line of organic and wild-crafted herbal remedies for pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. Through her herbal remedies and herbal and lactation consulting, Suzanne currently serves approximately 1,100 women per year. She attended her first home-birth in 1998, and has been involved in childbirth, breastfeeding and herbal therapies ever since. She is also currently in the midst of her PEP process for Certified Professional Midwife.