Shrove Tuesday Luncheon

The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt, Ph.D., grew up in Lubbock, Texas and is an award-winning professor and author as well as an international speaker on topics of theology, church history, and Scripture. She holds the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College's Litfin Divinity School and is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society as well as Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church. She is the author of many books, including The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today (Brazos, 2024), which was an ECPA Book of the Year Finalist for 2025. She and her husband co-founded a ministry called McNuttshell Ministries that seeks to bridge the church and academy. They have three children, who keep them busy with tennis, ballet, and baseball.

Also at the luncheon: 

Ana Covaci will give an intro to her mission work in Moldava. 

Ana works with CRU-Moldova (Campus Crusade for Christ). Every few years she visits the U.S. to share updates on how the gospel is reaching students and young adults in her country, as well as raise support for her ministry. She is one of 65 full-time national staff that are faithfully taking the Gospel to students, teachers, professional athletes as well as helping churches to build spiritual movements to reach Moldova for Christ. Moldova is a very beautiful country full of people with kind hearts. Due to poverty, low level of life and poor education, people are forced to leave the country for a better life for themselves and their families.

Ana will be giving a short presentation before the speaker and then will be in the Parlor after the luncheon to meet with women who are interested in learning more about her and her husband's work in Moldava.