TARA FURMAN
Founder and President of Knowing God Ministries
After spending 12 years in Bible Study Fellowship, Tara began speaking at women’s conferences and retreats in 2007.
In 2010, she founded the nonprofit, Knowing God Ministries. Her passion is to change lives and families ONE WOMAN at a time by helping them know God personally.
Tara grew up in Cary, NC where she married her high school sweetheart, Tim. Married for twenty-one years, they have two teenage children and Jake, their yellow lab (who should have been named Marley!)
Tara believes knowing God in the messiness and difficulties of everyday will forever change a woman’s life. It certainly changed her life!
DR.PEGGY BANKS
Global Ministry Director for TWR Women of Hope
Peggy Banks is a Florida native, a trained LPN Nurse, and has a D.Min. from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. She has been in ministry for over 27 years and has been married to her husband, Ken, for 21 years.
God gave her a mission statement for her life while she was attending Divinity School. It is “to help hurting women around the world find hope and healing in Jesus.” Peggy continues to live this out in her life as the Global Ministry Director for TWR Women of Hope.
DONNA GAINES
Author and Bible Teacher
PAULA STAFFORD & LISA GRIMES
JEANNE MANCINI
President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund
Jeanne Mancini was appointed to the role of President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund in the fall of 2012. In this capacity she proudly directs the small non-profit organization committed to restoring a culture of life in the United States, most notably through the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., held on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Previously Jeanne worked with the Family Research Council (FRC), where she focused on issues related to the inherent dignity of the human person, including abortion, women’s health, and end-of-life issues.
Jeanne has made frequent media appearances including interviews on MSNBC, CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, and others. Jeanne’s writings have appeared in The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, the Washington Post and numerous others publications.
Jeanne holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from James Madison University and a Master’s degree in the theology of marriage and family from the Pope John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.
Jeanne resides in northern Virginia with her husband, David.