2022 Featured Guests
Franchelle Jaeger is a national speaker, writer, Catholic creative, catechist and evangelist. Before changing her name to “Mama” she worked professionally as an actress on the stage.  Since her theatrical retirement, her mission has been to tell married couples, women, and young people about the Savior’s lavish, relentless love for them anywhere and anyway she can.  She is co-Founder of Bellator Catholic Media where she shares much of her published writing.  She and her husband, Matt, are Natural Family Planning teachers and have spent most of their 22 years of marriage sharing the good news of the Theology of the Body and God’s design for holy and happy families.  The Jaegers have 4 sons and are currently raising them in the rolling hills of Tennessee, not too far from Nashville.  If by some unmitigated measure of grace or bloody martyrdom the cause for her canonization is ever opened, she will be a patron saint of getting stains out of many things.
Sarah Kroger is a Nashville-based Catholic worship leader and songwriter. She has released four albums, 'Your Time' (2011), 'Hallelujah is Our Song' (2013), 'Bloom' (2019), and her popular 4th album 'Light'. With parents involved in worship ministry, Kroger’s love for music was sparked at a young age but the impact of bullying and her struggle with anxiety and shyness hid her musical gift for years. Everything changed when she met Jesus in an intimate encounter through worship at a youth conference; “Worship became my language with God,” she explains. “It allowed me to communicate with the Lord in a way I hadn’t experienced before; there was something about it that opened my heart.” Realizing that music was a gift, she desired to give back to the Lord. Kroger began leading worship at her church and has since done worship concerts all around the world. With singles ‘Standing In Your Light’, ‘Belovedness’, ‘Monument’, ‘A Thousand Thank Yous’ and ‘Unbroken Family’, Kroger's new album introduces a soundscape that mixes honesty with courage, pointing to the album’s encouragement of continually staying in relationship with the Lord. As a contemporary worship leader in the Catholic Church, Kroger gives a new language to people’s relationship with Jesus – ‘Light’ is an inspiration to keep saying yes to vulnerability, intimacy, and honesty.
Laura Phelps is first and foremost, a beloved daughter of God, who needed to crash and burn before realizing it. Rescued by Jesus and determined to lead women to their true identity in Christ, Laura is an authentic, relatable, and passionate national women’s speaker, who preaches with grit, wisdom, and humor. Author of her first book Victorious Secret: Everyday Battles and How To Win Them (2018), published by Our Sunday Visitor, Laura shows women how to put on their spiritual armor and face the fight every day. In her latest book, Sweet Cross: A Marian Guide To Suffering (2021, OSV), Laura shows men and women how to step out of the fear of suffering, and to look at their cross in a whole new way. A blogger and social media contributor at Walking with Purpose, her written work has also appeared in various online outlets, including Catholic Mom, Holy Family , Take-Out Magazine, and her own personal website, lauramaryphelps.com. Laura’s passion is fierce, her devotion to our Blessed Mother strong, and her message simple: “You cannot outrun your cross, so you might as well start carrying it.” She will make you laugh out loud, bring you to tears, and long for a deeper relationship with Jesus. Laura lives with her husband Nick, four children, and a menagerie of pets, in Newtown, CT.