The eighth annual Hearts Aflame Women’s Conference will be held Saturday, March 29, at the Central Kansas Dream Center, 2100 Broadway Ave., Great Bend. Admission is free. All proceeds collected from freewill offerings will go to the Dream Center, which offers faith-based community services.
Hearts Aflame in English will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with doors opening at 8 a.m. and a break for lunch, said spokeswoman Leslie Mayo. At 5:30 p.m., the doors open again for Hearts Aflame in Spanish.
The Dream Center, located in the former Roosevelt School,  is a new venue for the conference, Mayo noted. Those attending must use the east side entrance.
The purpose of this conference is to bring the body of Christ together in unity, Mayo said. Speakers will focus on helping women become better acquainted with who they are in Christ. “We just need to see things through His perspective.”
First Corinthians 2:9 sums it up nicely, Mayo said: “... what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived – the things God has prepared for those who live Him.”
Over the years, Mayo said the Hearts Aflame conferences have seen hearts mended and people set free. “It’s a very powerful thing.”
Speakers for Hearts Aflame in English will be Barbara Reinhardt, Julie Zech and Roxana Cardonne, and Cardonne will speak again at Hearts Aflame in Spanish.
• Barbara Reinhardt has served in the ministry for the past 27 years with her husband Curtis, pastor of Cornerstone Fellowship Church in Great Bend. She is the administrative secretary of the church and enjoys teaching the weekly Youth Alive Sunday School class. She has led many women’s studies over the years.
Her driving passion is to see people get saved, healed and set free. Reinhardt said her vision is to help people come to a knowledge of who they are in Christ so that their lives will be full of joy and peace.
• Julie Zeck, Great Bend, is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist and a credentialed pastor with the Assemblies of God. She understands the isolation and despair depression and abuse can bring to a soul. She believes that what we focus on, we become.
Her ministries include preaching, teaching, speaking and counseling. According to a recent bio, “Julie stands in amazement at the reconciliation God has brought to her life. Her testimony will amaze you. Come and enjoy.”
• Roxana Patricia Cardonne  and her husband William are pastors at a Hispanic church in McPherson. She was born in El Salvador and raised in southern California as her parents came to this country seeking safety from Central America’s civil war.
“The oldest of two kids, I never thought that God would have had a calling on my life to serve Him,” Cardonne said. “The journey has been wonderful, at times painful, but with everything else I thank God for His faithfulness in my life. I’m a foster parent, an ESL (English for Speakers of other Languages) teacher, a mom, a wife, but out of all these I’m a daughter of the highest king and that’s what I want to share wherever God takes me.”
“She is vibrant with the joy of the Lord,” Mayo said, “and is so excited to come and minister to us Saturday evening in Spanish.”
For more information about the Hearts Aflame Conference contact Michelle Gwin by calling 620-603-3870.