COME ALONGSIDE SERVICES
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
As a storyteller, Christi lays her life alongside Scripture. With humor and gut-wrenching honesty, she encourages others with what God has taught her in 60 + years of learning, losing, and loving. Reach out, tell her about your group, how God is already at work, and what your hopes are for your event. Then step back and let the Holy Spirit lead as you and Christi decide on a passage of Scripture or a subject for your group. Some of Christi’s most requested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Confessional Community
Discover seven confessions that move believers from surface relationships and isolation in the church to honest connections of the heart.
Be Still My Soul
Bring the teaching and sharing of a Stillness Retreat to your event while still enjoying fellowship with your group.
Remain Free
Dive into the the book of Galations, with an emphasis on walking in the freedom we have in Christ.
Your Story Matters
Lay your story alongside God’s story, and discover goodness, grace, and hope.
Spiritual Gifts Workshop
Learn how God has supernaturally gifted the church and each of its members to grow up together.
COMING ALONGSIDE
Retreats, workshops, and special events are often life-changing, but some of the richest encouragement comes in Bible studies, team meetings, or coummity groups. Christi’s unique situation as a solo traveler allows time to “do life” with a church. Some Come Alongside opportunities have included:
Spiritual Gifts Coaching
Follow up to a Spiritual Gifts workshop with a few days of coaching sessions, to help individuals or couples understand their unique gift mix.
Sharing and Processing
Christi connects with those who have experienced loss as they process grief, widowhood, suicide, sexual addiction, and more with small groups or individuals.
Encouragement
Christi brings a refreshing word of encouragement for regular gathering groups of moms, senior adults, and more. She can also be a listener and encourager for staff members and other ministry leaders.
TASTE OF STILLNESS RETREAT
Leave the noise behind to learn about practice and encourage each other in the disciplines of solitude, silence, and rest. This all inclusive 3 day retreat includes 12 hours of alone time with God along with times for teaching and sharing. Group size will vary by location.
Find a Stillness Retreat Near You
Join a retreat that’s already in the works. Contact Christi if you are interested in joining a retreat in the Mississippi/New Orleans area, South Tennessee, or North Alabama. More information to come.
Bring a Stillness Retreat to Your Area
Suggest a location for a retreat, and help Come Alongside Ministries connect to venues, resources, and people who are longing to learn stillness.
Taste the Stillness
This weekend retreat introduces participants to the disciplines of stillness in a refreshing mix of gathering and solitude. Brief group teaching sessions flow into individual practice –and it all culminates in a celebration of what God teaches us when we make space for Him.
How To book
Send a query
with your request. Include any information you have regarding your goals, possible dates, etc.
Make a Phone/Zoom Appointment
Fill out an event form
to nail down the details once you and Christi have decided on a date.
What People Are Saying
“It was obvious that hours of prayer and preparation went into every session Christi led at our Women’s Retreat. Her speaking and the time she spent with our ladies one-on-one and in small groups were super encouraging and relatable. She makes the most of the platform God has given her, and any church or retreat would be blessed by her presence, message, and involvement.”
“Christi’s week in the Atlanta area included everything from speaking in seminary chapel to leading a MOPS devotional, teaching a seminary class at the Women’s Prison, leading a few Bible studies, and sitting down with a new staff member at our church. In each setting, Christi shared from scripture and her life, creating an atmosphere of warmth, acceptance, and meaningful study. Invite Christi to come alongside what you’re doing at your church or to help you dream up something new! You’ll be so thankful that you did!”
“Christi Gibson is an amazing speaker teacher and encourager in Christ. God has used her story and her life to encourage others who have struggled and suffered. Christi came alongside our church and energized our people with her contagious spirit and anointed teaching. Her own story of turning suffering into encouragement will strengthen anyone who has the opportunity to hear her. I am thankful to call her my friend and fellow servant in Christ. I heartily recommend her ministry to you.”