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A Voice of Redemption, A Life of Resilience
Pastor Jenn Dafoe-Turner is a living testimony that no life is beyond the reach of God's grace. A survivor of the Canadian foster care system, a recovered alcoholic and drug addict, and someone who has been set free from same-sex attraction, Jenn speaks from the ashes of her past with boldness, compassion, and Holy Spirit fire.
Married just one week after her sixteenth birthday to the man who still stands by her nearly 37 years later, Jenn knows what it means to weather storms, wrestle with identity, and walk the long road of healing. Her lived experience gives her messages authenticity and authority — because she's not just preaching transformation, she's lived it.
Through her powerful storytelling, biblical insight, and deep empathy, Jenn brings hope to the hurting and a challenge to the complacent. She is a speaker, pastor, coach, and spiritual midwife — helping others birth the God-calling in their lives. Whether she's ministering on stage or in a quiet conversation, Jenn's presence makes space for truth, tears, and transformation.
Keynote Message
What if the very place you almost didn't go became the place where God changed your life?
In this deeply personal and hope-filled keynote, Jenn Dafoe-Turner shares her journey of arriving broken, questioning her identity, and discovering that God often does His deepest work in the middle of our hardest seasons. Through authentic storytelling, biblical truth, and practical application, Jenn reminds audiences that healing rarely happens in isolation. God often meets us through His people, speaking hope into places we thought were beyond redemption.
At the heart of this message is a simple but powerful truth: "Living Water never touches the same place twice." Just as rivers continually reshape the landscape they flow through, God's presence continues to transform us as we surrender more of our lives to Him. We don't simply attend conferences, churches, retreats, or communities and leave unchanged — we encounter the Living God, who faithfully renews us one layer at a time.
G — Give God Your Burden: Stop carrying what Christ has already invited you to surrender. Bring your hurt, fear, disappointment, and questions honestly before Him.
R — Receive His Truth: Exchange the lies you've believed for God's unchanging truth about your identity, worth, and calling.
A — Accept the Assignment: Trust that God wastes nothing. Even painful chapters can become part of His greater purpose for your life.
C — Choose Community: Healing happens in relationships. God often uses ordinary people to bring extraordinary encouragement, wisdom, and restoration.
E — Embrace the Adventure: Travel light. Leave yesterday's baggage behind and courageously step into the future God is preparing for you.
Throughout the message, Jenn shares three defining exchanges that transformed her own life:
Each exchange demonstrates that God doesn't simply remove our burdens — He replaces them with something far better.
Grounded in Psalm 61 and culminating in the beautiful promise of Isaiah 61, this keynote invites audiences to discover that God specializes in holy exchanges: beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, and praise instead of despair.
Key Takeaway: You don't have to have it all together to encounter God. Come as you are. Lay down what has been weighing you down. Pick up what Christ has prepared for you. Because wherever the Living Water flows, lives are never the same.
Signature Keynote
What if the peace you've been searching for isn't something you achieve — but Someone you meet?
In this honest, hope-filled keynote, Jenn Dafoe-Turner shares her journey from addiction, striving, and brokenness to discovering the lasting peace only Jesus Christ can provide. With authentic storytelling, biblical truth, and practical application, Jenn reminds audiences that the world offers countless substitutes for peace, but only one Savior who truly satisfies.
At the heart of this message is a simple but life-changing truth: Jesus isn't part of the solution. He is the Missing Peace.
Whether we're battling anxiety, addiction, shame, grief, burnout, or simply the weight of trying to hold life together, Jesus doesn't invite us to try harder. He invites us to come closer. True peace isn't found when our circumstances change. It is found when we surrender our lives to the Prince of Peace.
S — Seek God Daily: Begin each day in God's presence before facing the demands of the world.
O — Offer Him Your Day: Surrender your plans, worries, victories, and struggles to the One who holds your future.
B — Believe God: Trust His promises above your feelings, fears, and circumstances.
E — Expect Jesus to Show Up: Watch for God's hand at work in both ordinary moments and extraordinary circumstances.
R — Remember You Are Not Alone: God has given us His Spirit and His people to walk beside us every step of the journey.
Throughout the message, Jenn shares how God's peace met her in places she never expected — through recovery, community, Scripture, and countless moments where Christ proved Himself faithful. Each story points to the same truth: lasting peace isn't found in escaping life's storms but in walking through them with Jesus.
Grounded in Christ's invitation to "Come to Me" and His promise to leave us with His peace, this keynote reminds audiences that Jesus never asked us to carry life's burdens alone.
Whether your audience is struggling with addiction, anxiety, grief, burnout, fear, or simply longing for a deeper relationship with Christ, this message offers hope, practical encouragement, and the invitation to exchange striving for surrender.
Key Takeaway: You don't have to fix yourself before coming to Jesus. Come weary. Come broken. Come searching. The peace you've been looking for has been looking for you all along. Because Jesus isn't simply the giver of peace — He is the Missing Peace.
Signature Keynote
What if the greatest love story ever written isn't about finding the right person — but being relentlessly pursued by the right God?
In this moving and gospel-centered keynote, Jenn Dafoe-Turner opens the often-overlooked story of Hosea and Gomer to reveal one of Scripture's most beautiful pictures of God's covenant love. Through authentic storytelling, biblical teaching, and practical application, Jenn invites audiences to discover that this ancient story isn't merely about a broken marriage — it's about every one of us.
At the heart of this message is a breathtaking truth: God's covenant love is greater than our greatest failures.
Like Gomer, we've all wandered. We've all pursued lesser loves. We've all believed the lie that our mistakes could separate us from God's love. Yet the story of Hosea reminds us that God's love doesn't quit when we fail. He pursues. He redeems. He restores.
As Jenn draws powerful parallels between Hosea's love for Gomer, Christ's sacrificial love for His Bride, and God's design for covenant marriage, audiences are reminded that they are not defined by their past — they are defined by the One who came to redeem them.
L — Lean into God: Move toward Him instead of running from Him, trusting His grace is greater than your shame.
O — Open Your Heart: Healing begins when we stop hiding and allow God to transform us from the inside out.
V — Value the Covenant: God remains faithful to His promises even when we struggle to remain faithful to ours.
E — Embrace Redemption: Your story isn't defined by your failures but by the redeeming love of Jesus Christ.
Throughout the message, Jenn explores how God's covenant love reshapes every relationship. Husbands are challenged to love sacrificially as Christ loves the Church. Wives are reminded of their immeasurable worth. Every believer is invited to rest in the assurance that God's love is not based on performance but on His unchanging character.
Grounded in the Book of Hosea and illuminated through the gospel, this keynote reveals that redemption has always been God's plan. The cross was not His backup plan — it was His love story written before the foundation of the world.
Whether your audience is navigating broken relationships, marriage, shame, failure, forgiveness, or simply longing to understand the depth of God's love, this message offers hope, healing, and the assurance that no one is beyond His reach.
Key Takeaway: You are loved more deeply than you can imagine and pursued more faithfully than you deserve. Stop running. Lean into the God who has never stopped pursuing you. Because the greatest love story ever told is the story of a faithful God redeeming His beloved people.
— Pastor Jenn Dafoe-Turner
Spiritual Midwife • Christian Life Coach • Author • Speaker