A Personal Welcome from
Sondra Cross
I would like to personally welcome you to the 2019 RENEW Conference! We have an assignment from the Lord to help bring greater unity in our city, reaching out to pastor's wives and women's ministry leaders to develop friendships and understanding between us. .
We are incredibly excited about this year's Renew Conference on January 25 and 26! The beginning of the year is the perfect time to make adjustments in our lives, evaluate where we are at and where we want to be, and set our course for the New Year! I love the feeling of starting fresh with no mistakes, with greater focus and the drive and determination to make it a great year!
There are many wonderful women's conferences that are doing really great things. Our heart is not to duplicate what another ministry is doing, but rather to obey the Lord in our assignment to start the New Year with focus. The Renew Conference brings together approximately 20+ breakout session speakers and many churches from Muskegon County. This year our keynote speaker is Lady Francis Brown!.
We believe "This is a call to be extraordinary. This is the call to live the extraordinary life."
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Sondra Cross has worked alongside her husband, Tim Cross, in ministry for 33 years. She has 7 wonderful children ranging from 18 to 33 of which 6 are married. She has 6 beautiful grandchildren!
Sondra is currently the Executive Director of the White Lake Music Society and Director of the White Lake Chamber Music Festival. Having a dream and vision of great musical possibilities in the White Lake area, she created the White Lake Chamber Music Society and joined with the ACWL in 2007 to build the music branch, impacting the area with great classical music. Along with her board, made up of some of the top business, community, professional musicians, and leaders in Muskegon County, Sondra developed and administers the leading Junior Strings program in West Michigan, the White Lake Chamber Music Festival, a lecture series, and a Classical Music Series.
Sondra received her Bachelor of Music from Western Michigan University in Music Performance. She was a member of the
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra for 18 years, and performed with the Grand Rapids Symphony and Twin Lake Symphony. She has taught privately for many years and has consistently had students go on to be music majors and pursue music after high
school. She currently performs with Solace, a flute/clarinet duo and Quint-essence, a woodwind quintet. In addition, Sondra has been a substitute music teacher, instrumental sectional coach, and is currently a saxophone and clarinet instructor.
All of her children were homeschooled until 9th grade, with the last one choosing to homeschool through high school. They all love the Lord and are involved in ministry in some way. She is passionate about continuing to grow and dream and believes that truly "nothing is impossible" with God!
We are incredibly excited about this year's Renew Conference on January 25 and 26! The beginning of the year is the perfect time to make adjustments in our lives, evaluate where we are at and where we want to be, and set our course for the New Year! I love the feeling of starting fresh with no mistakes, with greater focus and the drive and determination to make it a great year!
There are many wonderful women's conferences that are doing really great things. Our heart is not to duplicate what another ministry is doing, but rather to obey the Lord in our assignment to start the New Year with focus. The Renew Conference brings together approximately 20+ breakout session speakers and many churches from Muskegon County. This year our keynote speaker is Lady Francis Brown!.
We believe "This is a call to be extraordinary. This is the call to live the extraordinary life."
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Sondra Cross has worked alongside her husband, Tim Cross, in ministry for 33 years. She has 7 wonderful children ranging from 18 to 33 of which 6 are married. She has 6 beautiful grandchildren!
Sondra is currently the Executive Director of the White Lake Music Society and Director of the White Lake Chamber Music Festival. Having a dream and vision of great musical possibilities in the White Lake area, she created the White Lake Chamber Music Society and joined with the ACWL in 2007 to build the music branch, impacting the area with great classical music. Along with her board, made up of some of the top business, community, professional musicians, and leaders in Muskegon County, Sondra developed and administers the leading Junior Strings program in West Michigan, the White Lake Chamber Music Festival, a lecture series, and a Classical Music Series.
Sondra received her Bachelor of Music from Western Michigan University in Music Performance. She was a member of the
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra for 18 years, and performed with the Grand Rapids Symphony and Twin Lake Symphony. She has taught privately for many years and has consistently had students go on to be music majors and pursue music after high
school. She currently performs with Solace, a flute/clarinet duo and Quint-essence, a woodwind quintet. In addition, Sondra has been a substitute music teacher, instrumental sectional coach, and is currently a saxophone and clarinet instructor.
All of her children were homeschooled until 9th grade, with the last one choosing to homeschool through high school. They all love the Lord and are involved in ministry in some way. She is passionate about continuing to grow and dream and believes that truly "nothing is impossible" with God!
