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New Conference Reaches Out to Help Women Struggling to Find
Work
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(Nashville, TN) --Speaker/singer Shannon Perry kicked off her new
national women's conference this month entitled
If The Shoe Fits.
Perry decided to use the events to support
Dress for Success, a
worldwide charitable organization that promotes the economic
independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional
attire, a network of support and the career development tools to
help women thrive in work and in life. After her first conference in
the Houston area, Perry took over 200 pair of gently-worn shoes to
the local Dress for Success
affiliate.
"We had so many women respond with such generosity to our request
for shoes," says Perry. "This is such a worthwhile charity and
especially now when so many people are out of work and looking for
work. I just wanted to be able to use our conference as a place for
all of us to help women who are struggling."
Dress for Success Houston
provides interview suits, confidence boosts and career development
to more than 3200 women annually. With suits from
Dress for Success Houston,
women not only look their best, they feel their best and they have
the confidence to succeed. An independent 501(c) (3) corporation
registered in the state of Texas,
Dress for Success Houston is part of a world-wide network and
is an affiliate to 94 Dress for
Success organizations.
 Targeted
specifically to women, the
If The Shoe Fits conferences combines Perry's teaching
prowess with her musical talent featuring topics such as "Goody Two
Shoes," "Walk a Mile in My Shoes," "Is There a Hole in Your Sole"
and "Lacing Up the Tongue." Perry's new music CD entitled
The Real
Thing (produced by Lifeway writer/producer Paul Marino)
features songs specifically written to fit in with the theme of the
conferences. Perry wrote the bulk of the original presentation in
hospital waiting rooms while her husband was undergoing cancer
treatment.
"One week after I began writing the script for the conference, my
husband David was diagnosed with cancer," says Perry. "For four
months following his surgery, I carried my computer to the hospital
and while I sat in the waiting room during his radiation treatments,
I silently cried out to God to fill my heart with ways I could help
others and keep the focus off myself and my circumstances. I had
plenty of time to pray, study and write the notes for each of the
topics. This conference became a healing agent to me as I walked
through the fears and all of the other 'unknowns' that cancer
brings."
Perry earned her Master's Degree in Education with an emphasis in
counseling and taught in the public school system for over fourteen
years before entering into full-time ministry. She has
previously-released music projects with both Daywind and Benson
Records which garnered radio airplay on the national Christian
charts. She has performed with the Houston Symphony and has even
appeared at Carnegie Hall. Perry has shared the stage with
best-selling authors Karen Kingsbury, Jan Silvious (Women of Faith),
Joanna Weaver, and Di Ann Mills, as well as artists Larnelle Harris,
Gordon Mote (keyboard player for Bill Gaither) and Michael English,
among others. She has been a featured soloist at the J&J Music
Conferences in Houston, Texas, and led praise and worship at
numerous women's conferences and for the national Lifeway
conferences held annually in New Mexico and North Carolina.
Perry says she has kept the conference topics flexible enough to
present them in almost any type of gathering including bible
studies, small group gatherings or other settings. She has also
begun a conference specifically for tween and teenage girls entitled
"Don't Flip-flop in your Walk with Jesus." Perry, who writes a
column called "Grace in High Heels" for WestSideStory.net, is also
working on a book to coincide with the
If the Shoe Fits
theme.
For more information, visit
www.ShannonPerry.com
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Pictured: Shannon Perry (left)
drops off her first donation of shoes to the Dress for Success
charity (Houston location). Client Services coordinator for the
company, Millicent Lacy, receives the supply for their local store.
Read Shannon's
bio here. |
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