Saturday, April 25 • 2–9pm • Park Church Building • $55
Dinner, drinks, snacks, and more are provided. Please register by Monday, April 20 (see below).
The $55 cost covers speakers’ honoraria, materials, food, drinks, and more. If the cost is a barrier to your attendance, or if childcare is an issue, please contact Kyle Nelson.
Join us for Gospel Sexuality: Creation, Culture, and Communion with God, a women’s symposium exploring the beauty and complexity of God’s design for sexuality in today’s world. Through teaching by trusted outside speakers, thoughtful conversations, and practical breakouts, we’ll consider how the story of Scripture—from creation to redemption—reshapes our understanding of our bodies, relationships, and longings. Together, we’ll engage topics like marriage, singleness, gender identity, parenting, pornography, and walking with those navigating sexual struggles. With space for honest questions, workshopping, reflection, and prayer, this event invites women at every stage of life to reflect deeply, wrestle with real-life questions, and rediscover the hope of communion with God.
Breakout Workshops
Session 1:
Where Do Sexual Struggles Come From? Knowing A Sister’s Heart
Catherine Krasinski, Harvest USA
Sexual struggles don’t just come out of the blue. They involve a myriad of past and present issues that can come together in devastating ways. Using the Harvest USA Tree Model, we examine how people can get caught up in unbiblical ways of living. Understanding how to trace these struggles to deeper issues is the pathway to hope.
Sex in Marriage: Honest Conversations
Dr. Veronica Johnson & Julie Faulkner (Director of Care & Counseling, Park Church)
Sex with my husband is . . . Whether your answer is wonderful, exhausting, painful, frequent, not initiated by me, or something wildly different, you are invited to participate in this session with Dr Veronica Johnson and our own Director of Care and Counseling, Julie Faulkner as we talk about God’s design for sex in marriage.
Sexuality & the Single Person
One’s sexuality doesn’t matter only when one is married. Singles are also called to live their lives honoring God with their sexuality. How can someone who is single today live with sexual integrity before God in a culture that sees a celibate life as harmful and tragic?
Session 2:
Why Women Need To Talk About Sex and the Gospel
Caitlin McCaffrey, Harvest USA
Discussing sex, sexuality, and gender rarely happens openly in church, yet many Christians are left wondering how to think about these issues in light of their faith. When the church remains silent, people often struggle with confusion or carry questions alone, which can quietly shape or weaken their faith. In this talk, we will explore why these topics have often been avoided and why that silence matters. We’ll consider major ways Christians are being hurt by the church’s silence, reasons churches tend to avoid these topics, and ways a person’s faith can be affected when these issues aren’t addressed openly within the church.
Loving the People Behind the Letters
Discover how to love LGBTQ+ people well—seeing them not as one people group, but as individuals with vastly different stories, faith journeys, and needs—whether they are wary of Christians, hold affirming theology, live celibate despite same-sex attraction, or have been deeply wounded by the church. Through grace-filled biblical principles, real research insights, and practical tools like humble listening, timely truth-sharing, and compassionate relationship-building, you’ll gain vision and confidence to care effectively in your home, workplace, and ministry. Come ready to be equipped to reflect Jesus’ heart in a divided world.
Curiosity Without Shame: Exploring Your Sexual Story
Every one of us has a story that has shaped our sexuality: our beliefs, expectations, and our view of ourselves as sexual individuals. This breakout will function as a workshop designed to foster curiosity and awareness in order to invite deeper truth, freedom, and intimacy with God.
Session 3:
When Media Shapes Desire: Porn & the Power of Stories
Learn how pornography, smut, and erotic media can shape our expectations about sex and relationships, and what practical steps can help protect and nurture healthy intimacy. The concern isn’t only the images we see, but the story these forms of media tell about sex, desire, and other people—a story that can gradually reshape how we view intimacy and, over time, distort real relationships.
How to Walk with A Sister Struggling with Sexual Sin
Catherine Krasinski, Harvest USA
It’s becoming more and more evident that Christians—and not just people outside the church—are struggling with sexual issues. Do you know how to help a friend or someone in the church? Do you know what is helpful, and what is not? This breakout discusses principles of helping that are particularly geared to those who struggle with sexual issues by identifying ways that are unhelpful and talking through accountability steps that are effective.
Women, Sex, Lies, & Culture
Caitlin McCaffrey, Harvest USA
The culture is very active in teaching its views on sex, sexuality, and gender. The messages the internet, social media, and media in general send daily are how most people think and live. The Christian worldview is increasingly a minority viewpoint. Do you know the key cultural messages that drive sexual behavior today? If not, you won’t be able to present a gospel worldview effectively.