Gail Showalter

Gail is a heartwarming, moving, and genuine speaker and storyteller. Her passion is to encourage hurting women, particularly single moms, to discover and develop their abilities and inner strengths. Gail inspires audiences to cultivate and grow spiritually with her artfully told personal stories.

Gail was a single mother of three for sixteen years before she married Sam in 1996. She knows the struggles, the heartaches, and the day-to-day difficulties of being single and head of a household. During her years as a single mom she learned to depend on the Lord for guidance. Though she is happily remarried, her hearts desire is to offer seeds of guidance to single moms.

Gail has produced babies, Braille, and burnoutand bears witness to the benefits of all three. Her passion for single moms motivated her to establish SMORE for Women, a Spiritual Ministry Offering Retreats and Encouragement. Gail is available to serve as a facilitator for the implementation of a Single Mom Saturday retreat program in your church.

Gail holds a Masters degree from The University of Texas and she worked in public education for eighteen years. Her inspiring articles have appeared in Focus on the Familys Single Parent Family, Valley Living for the Whole Family, and LIVE, a Weekly Journal of Practical Christian Living. She also has stories in the book, But Lord, I Was Happy Shallow by Marita Littauer, and Laundry Tales to Lighten the Load by Melissa Howell and Angela Peters.

Gail makes her home in Nederland, Texas with her husband Sam. They each have three grown children.