Speakers Bureau - Kimberly Ketola

Ketola_KimberlyTo schedule a presentation with Kim Ketola contact her at 651.329.2445 or by e-mail: .

Mrs. Ketola's presentations are intended for grades six through eight, high school students, college students, and adults. Preferred settings include junior high or senior high chapels and classrooms; youth group events; college public forums; college group events; college classrooms; youth, teen, and adult Bible study classes; church organizations; public forum; and as a guest speaker during worship services.

Possible topics include:

Abortion:

  • Procedures
  • Effects on Women and Men (post abortion syndrome)
  • Post Abortion Healing

Men, Women, and Relationships:

  • Biblical Womanhood
  • Chivalry and Purity

Society:

  • Impacting Today's Culture
  • Supporting Women in Unplanned Pregnancies

Kim Ketola has a presentation titled In a Pro-Choice World, You Are the Choice meant to encourage Christians to support pregnancy resource centers and offer tangible alternatives to abortion.

Mrs. Ketola shares her testimony of healing in Christ after abortion and her experience as a peer counselor for post-abortion Bible study and support groups. She also shares the stories told in a radio program she created and hosted titled Life Redeemed™. This program featured interviews with leading pro-life writers and speakers. Kim also brings her findings as a broadcast journalist on abortion stats and facts.

Kim tells about how knowing God's Word changed her worldview from feminist to Biblical womanhood.

Bio

Kim Ketola (formerly known as Kim Jeffries) has over thirty years of broadcast and broadcast journalism experience including hosting and producing programs on KTIS, KS95, and WCCO Radio and TV. She was Executive Producer and Host of Life Redeemed™, a radio outreach offering healing and hope after abortion, featuring interview with Randy Alcorn, John MacArthur, and other leading Christian writers and teachers.

Kim is a lay ministry leader who has organized and presented professionally accredited conferences to equip licensed therapists, social workers and counselors, and help individuals recover from the emotional ancl spiritual wounds of abortion. She is a trained peer counselor and speaker with New Life Family Services Conquerors post‑abortion support groups, and she has led groups at MN Teen Challenge and elsewhere. She holds a B.S. in Ministry from Northwestern College, where she also serves as Adjunct Faculty in Communications. Kim is a frequent pro‑life speaker at churches, pregnancy centers and community groups.

Community leadership includes serving as Chair, MN Governor's Council on Faith and Community Service Initiatives, Board Member at Union Gospel Mission and volunteering with Charis prison ministry and Missionary Evangelism to Corrections jail outreach. Kim contributes articles to Minnesota Christian Chronicle and has also been published in the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, and Minnesota Women's Press. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill awarded Kim their 2003 Annual Media Award. Mrs. Ketola and her husband, Bruce, are parents to four children in their blended family.