Speaking - Julia Roller

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Julia Roller is the author of eight books, including Mom Seeks God, A Year with God (with Richard J. Foster), and 25 Books Every Christian Should Read. She lives in San Diego, CA, with her husband, three children, and miniature dachshund.

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About Julia

Julia Roller is an author, editor, and speaker. Her books include Mom Seeks God, A Year with God (with Richard J. Foster), A Year with Aslan, and 25 Books Every Christian Should Read. Julia has spoken to dozens of women’s and MOPS groups all over southern California and is currently the MOPS coordinator at Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church.Her writing has appeared in Today’s Christian Woman, The San Francisco Chronicle, Group, Rev!, and Children’s Ministry. She lives in San Diego, California with her husband, three children, and miniature dachshund, where she can usually be found driving someone to a sports field, burning the garlic bread, or turning socks the right way out at the washing machine.

I’d love to speak to your group! Below are a few of my speaking topics or I’d be happy to tailor a talk to your group’s specific needs.

Meeting God in the Middle of Your Busy Life

Motherhood throws many of us for a loop. Amidst the joyful chaos, we can find ourselves a little short of the silence and time to ourselves that we often feel we need to seek God. We’ll walk through several spiritual practices such as prayer, silence, and worship with ideas about how to practice them in the middle of busy family life.

Simplicity: Getting Past All the Stuff

Mom life is many things. Exhausting? Frequently. Joyful? Often. Simple? Not so much. We long for our lives to be simple, but what is Biblical simplicity anyway? We’ll discuss several strategies for moving past the anxiety that often accompanies motherhood and into a more simple life.

Being Loved: Living a Life of Hospitality

Far from just throwing dinner parties, hospitality is an essential spiritual practice. It might be, in fact, the answer to our digital age of loneliness. Using my own experience of being embraced by my community after being diagnosed with breast cancer when I was pregnant with my third child, I’ll explore what hospitality really means in the Bible and now, how it is vital to our living in community, and why it is important to receive it as well as give it.

The Lessons of Losing

The narrative of our culture is often all about winning. As moms we feel pressured not only to be winners ourselves, but also, and for many of us more urgently, to make our children winners. Yet in the Bible, while God’s people do experience resounding victories, they also experience crushing defeat. God’s plan is clearly not for us always to win. How can we take a step back from the hyper-competitive nature of today’s parenting and learn this important lesson for ourselves and for our children? We’ll explore some of the important lessons of losing and brainstorm some ways to release ourselves and our children from the relentless competitiveness we experience in school, sports, and everyday life.

Creating Space for God

Life today doesn’t seem to offer a great deal of silence, yet it is essential in order to listen to and connect with God. We’ll talk about why we find Psalms 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God,” so difficult and how we can better put it into practice.

What People are Saying About Julia

It’s my pleasure to endorse Julia Roller as a speaker to your local MOPS chapter, women’s group or retreat. She recently spoke to our group of mothers on the topic of “Soul Care: Spiritual Practices for Busy Moms.” We found Julia to be incredibly endearing and relatable as she spoke of her struggle to find God amidst the chaos of motherhood. Because our group is comprised of moms in all stages of their faith journeys, I especially appreciated Julia’s ability to translate time-honored spiritual disciplines into practices that seemed attainable and not at all “churchy.” I’ve since enjoyed reading her book, Mom Seeks God, and hope to have Julia as a speaker to our group again next year!”

Katie Bowden

MOPS Speaker Coordinator at Mount of Olives Lutheran Church in Mission Viejo, CA

Julia is a warm and relatable speaker with practical wisdom to share from her own experiences. She was responsive to the needs of our group, and the moms really connected with what she had to share!

Sarah Butterfield

Coordinator, Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church MOPS

Julia’s talk for our women’s tea was a timely opportunity for us to contemplate loss and the value of loss in our lives. Her vulnerable sharing of herself and family’s losses allowed us to open up and face our own losses with courage and strength from God.

Maria Kim

Yorba Linda Seventh-day Adventist Church