Shortly after New Orleans was slammed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I began to receive notes and emails from moms around our area with regards to their daughters having a hard time with their self-images.

I don’t know if it was being thrown and dislodged by the hurricane, (many families, including ours had to relocate for nearly a year), or if it was just something that has always been there, and we were just now hearing about it, but we were receiving notes about young girls developing eating disorders, cutting themselves, hating their bodies, not knowing their Divine destinies, etc.

It was at this time, that I felt compelled to do a meeting to reach these precious teenage girls and young adults in any way that I could.

We decided to do a Meeting/Conference and we called that Conference Mirror Mirror.

Our very 1st Mirror Mirror Conference was held in the kitchen area of the Life Center Dining Room at our local church.  To my surprise, we packed 40 young girls in the dining room of that kitchen that night and I taught.  It was crucial for me to get across the point that our self-images are not the result of self at all!

But a healthy self-image is one that is birthed, founded upon and conformed to the image of Christ.  Romans 8:29.  Any self-image that is founded upon any other foundation other than Christ, will only leave the person frustrated, empty and forever on a hamster’s wheel trying to measure up to some kind of image that that person has formulated in his/her own mind!  One author put it this way:

“Christianity is not self-effort! When self -improvement, rather than Christ becomes the center of our focus, our focus is displaced.” (and) Col. 2:8-To attempt to find completeness through any other source is to be taken captive through philosophy and empty deceit.

The meetings continued to grow.

We began inviting  guest speakers and guest worship leaders from around the country to join us.  This is something that we continue to do today.

In 2016, we realized that the meetings would find themselves with many attendees other than just teenage girls and young adults.

It was at that time that the Lord impressed upon me to open the meetings to whomsoever will  to be able to attend. We then held a contest to have the name changed to accommodate all ages, and include both men and women.

The name KINGDOM FEST won!

And for the past three years, we have held Kingdom Fest Conferences during or at the close to the month of June!

These conferences are designed to equip, encourage and build the believer in his/her journey!  They are packed with powerful worship, strong teachings by myself and our guest speakers, and consist of audiences everywhere who are hungry to learn, and grow in Christ!  We have seen hundreds upon hundreds of people come to Christ for the 1st time at each meeting also!  What a JOY!

As we were planning for this year’s Kingdom Fest 2019 Conference, it came to my attention that we needed to once again bring back our original Mirror Mirror setting and address topics that are hitting our young people today.

So we will bring Mirror Mirror back and include it as part of Kingdom Fest 2019.   We have invited our son, Mike Jr. (30) and our daughter, Hannah Rose Marie (28) to join us for a time of sharing.  An amazing Worship Leader from Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas, Phil King will be our special Worship Guest.

Mike, Hannah and I will share on Saturday morning of this year’s Kingdom Fest Conference.  We will then conduct a PANEL DISCUSSION to address MUCH of today’s concerns.  Phil King, Mike, Hannah and others will be on the panel and I will moderate the discussions.  PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

We hope you will be able to join us!