PHOTOS FROm PURSUED 2024
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Friday – Saturday, March 21-22, 2025
Camp Victory | Zumbro Falls, Minnesota
Women’s conference for women Ages 16+
Join us for an expanded two day conference at Camp Victory, full of teaching and worship as we explore God’s heart for love, sex, and relationships. Did you come last year? Spread the word! Bring all your friends!
This year’s retreat features foundational sessions by Ashley Giovannucci, Amber Impellizzeri and Emmarie Moon from the Across My Heart team as well as all new break out sessions by guest speakers Karen Digby Dripps and Linda Hunsberger.
You are invited to stay on site with nostalgic camp activities and late night opportunities to connect over God’s Word.
Together, we will discover why God created sexuality, what it reveals about the gospel, and how we can inspire the next generation with His good design for life and love! Whether you’re returning this year or you’ve never visited Camp Victory, you’ll be equipped and encouraged at Pursued. As Christian women, it is our hope that you’ll fall deeper in love with the God who pursues you!
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Ashley Giovannucci
As the Executive Director of Across My Heart Ministries, Ashley co-hosts the Yada Yada podcast, contributing 10 years of experience equipping young women with God’s truth about love, life and sexuality. As a wife and mother to girls, she’s passionate about raising the next generation to pursue the heart of God.
In 2023, she earned her Masters in Biblical Studies from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, and she currently serves as Director of Family Ministries at Banner Church in West Michigan.
AMBER IMPELLIZERRI
Amber co-hosts the Yada Yada Podcast with her sister Ashley as the Co-Founder of Across My Heart Ministries. She is a wife and mother of three little ones.
As the resident science expert, she teaches high school Chemistry and Biology and contributes to the ministry as a writer and speaker, bringing a unique perspective on the intersection of science and Scripture.
EMMARIE MOON
Emmarie serves on staff as Director of Discipleship and Recruitment with Camp Victory in Zumbro Falls, Minnesota. She was impacted by AMH while in middle school, joining the ministry as an official team member in 2017. This will be her second year hosting and speaking at our women’s conference.
She is most excited about our new overnight addition this year to provide a space for women to connect and have good conversations, PLUS camp fun and a deep breath of fresh air in God’s creation. She loves making new connections through AMH and can’t wait to meet you at camp in March!
Across My Heart Team
Across My Heart Ministries started with a group of friends who wanted to influence the next generation of young women to passionately pursue the heart of God with their whole life. What started as overnight retreats for local churches has blossomed into a thriving online presence, podcast and Bible studies for women as well as an annual youth conference in West Michigan!
FEATURING NEW BREAK OUT SESSIONS BY KAREN DIGBY DRIPPS AND LINDA HUNSBERGER
With a B.A in Clinical Child Psychology and a Master of Science in Public Health, Karen Digby Dripps is a knowledgeable and passionate speaker, educator, and author. Her violence prevention and relationship enrichment program “Be Smart Guard Your Heart” teaches youth and young adults healthy relationship formation and abuse prevention skills and reaches thousands of students in classrooms and assemblies.
Linda Hunsberger is a wife and mother of six beautiful adult children. She has three lovely daughter-in-laws and five grandchildren that fill her heart with unspeakable joy. She has been coming alongside families whose children have found their identity within the LGBTQ+ community since 2014 when their third son declared he was their daughter. She has been connecting with families throughout the US since 2015 and facilitating a parent prayer and support group locally since 2018. Her greatest desire is to meet individuals one on one to equip, support, and encourage them as they courageously battle against spiritual and cultural forces.
Schedule of the day
Friday, MARCH 21
4:00 PM Doors Open/ Room Check-In
6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Welcome, Game, Worship
7:00 p.m. Session 1: Created to Love
8:30 p.m. S’mores and Campfire Hang Out!
10:00 p.m. Turn In
Saturday, MARCH 22
7:30 a.m. Doors Open for Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Worship
8:30 a.m. Session 2: A Sexual Revelation
9:30 a.m. Session 3: The Science of Sex
10:30 a.m. Optional Break Out Session #1
——— 12:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK———-
1:00 p.m. Optional Breakout Session #2
2:00 p.m. Optional Activity [Organized by Camp Victory Staff]
3:00 p.m. Worship
3:20 p.m. Q&A Panel Discussion with questions submitted by your guests!
4:00 p.m. Session 4: Reclaiming Sexuality
4:30 p.m. DISMISSAL
“Cultural News Flashes and Biblical Responses” will be featured throughout the day with some of the latest headlines and thought experiments for attendees to think deeply and Biblically about sexual ethics.
MAIN SESSIONS
Session 1: CREATED TO LOVE
Ashley Giovannucci
As sexed beings, our sexuality points toward a deeper need – love. We desire to know and be known while unknowingly harboring barriers to intimacy and vulnerability. Our self-protective measures and shallow commitments fall short of the covenantal relationships that God designed. And yet, whether married or single, God is the One who promises to meet our deepest need.
Session 2: Sexual Revelation and the sexual revolution
Ashley Giovannucci
The history of the Sexual Revolution has its own narrative of morality, but God’s Word reveals what we should believe about love. From the Free Love Movement of the 1960s to the latest headlines in our national news, we will discover the roots of the Sexual Revolution began growing way back in the Garden.The Bible begins with a marital union in the Garden and ends with the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. While the culture has its own narrative of sexual morality, God’s Word reveals what we should truly believe about love and life.
Session 3: The Science of Sex: How the Biology supports the Theology of sex
AMBER IMPELLIZZERI
God designed our bodies to respond to sex in very specific and profound ways. In this session we will see how the biology of sex supports the theology of sex and how deviations from God’s design, including premarital sex and pornography, have very real chemical consequences within the human body.
Session 4: Reclaiming Sexuality
Ashley Giovannucci
Reclaiming sexuality begins in our own lives. If we want to transform our culture with the truth of God’s good design, we must first let His truths transform us.