Mary DeMuth

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Mary DeMuth
Travels from: Dallas, TX
(travels with an assistant) 

Categories Include:

  • Outreach Events
  • Family / Parenting Events
  • Mother / Daughter Events
  • Missions Events
  • Inspirational
  • School Assemblies
  • Teen / Youth Events
  • College / University Events
  • Women’s Retreats / Conferences / Events
  • Young Moms’ Events
  • Writers Conferences
  • Marriage Conferences / Retreats / Events
  • Wellness (Mental Health, Healthcare, Other Issues)
  • Spiritual Warfare Conferences / Events
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“Mary came to me highly recommended by other ministry partners and she lived up to my every expectation. Her message to the moms was real, honest and very relevant to where they are today as moms raising children in a crazy world. Her message touched the hearts of many and left us with wanting to hear more. She didn’t tickle our ears, she spoke biblical truth. Mary is definitely a speaker that Mom2Mom will want to have back.”  ~ Dana Bailey, Mom2Mom Coordinator, Frisco TX

“Mary shares her life’s story with honesty in a way that connects with the hearts of all who hear. Through her personal experiences, she compassionately reaches out to everyone who has endured suffering or loss with encouragement, hope, and the promise that God sees and cares, even when it doesn’t seem possible. A speaker who shares the Good News that God deeply loves each of us, even in the midst of our most trying circumstances, Mary DeMuth is a true inspiration.” ~ Steve Prickett, Alexandria, KY

“When Mary DeMuth spoke at our staff conferences in Europe, she impacted our missionaries with her transparency, passion and message of Jesus’ ability to heal wounds.” ~ Linus Morris, President, Christian Associates International

Mary DeMuth's Bio

Mary's prayer through her writing and speaking is that you’ll meet Jesus who can take your deepest wounds, and darkest trials, and turn them into the most stunning triumphs.

Author, speaker, and book mentor Mary DeMuth has been writing feverishly ever since her second grade teacher dared to say she had talent. She’s been published since the turn of the century, her first book releasing in 2005. Author of more than a dozen books, both nonfiction and fiction, Mary has spoken to writers in the USA and abroad. She’s finaled for two Christy awards, but finds her greatest accomplishments in her three children and amazing husband.


In her own words ... 

I grew up in a world full of deep wounds, both inside my family and outside.

When I was five, the cane-shaking lady next door sprayed her blackberry bushes with poison so the neighborhood kids wouldn’t eat the renegade berries that spilled over her fence into the common alley. I didn’t understand that as I popped a huge handful into my mouth.

“You’re going to die! You’re going to die!” she screamed at me after seeing my purple stained cheeks.

I shook and cried, flailing myself on my bed. I obviously lived, but the fear of death took root in my heart. At ten, my biological father died. Knowing he’d passed to the other side made me feel more vulnerable to the grave’s icy grip.

During junior high, life felt unbearable and I considered killing myself. My mom’s third marriage disintegrated and I frequently broke down at school, wracked with tears.

Then came hope!

My freshman year of high school, a friend invited me to Young Life. Every time the speaker said, “Jesus,” my heart pounded. The leader ended one of his talks by asking, “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” (Matthew 8:27)

The question echoed through my mind throughout the summer before my sophomore year. By the time I went to a Young Life weekend camp in the fall of that next school year, my heart longed to know this Jesus. When the camp speaker spoke of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, I knew I wanted to follow Him the rest of my life.

I sat under an evergreen tree that evening and looked up into the star-pocked night, searching for the face of God. In that moment I gave Him my heart, life, past, pains, countless tears, and wounds of my childhood to the Father who would never leave me, to the God who conquered death.

I’ve sought after him ever since.

Popular Speaking Topics

Thin Places

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What if you could go back in your life and retrace the places God came near? Mary looks back on her childhood, fragmented by death, sexual abuse and neglect and finds God there. She helps listeners no longer feel alone. She points to Jesus, the only One who can transform trauma. Audiences will experience a fresh picture of redemption, and they’ll begin to hope for healing.

Do you want to get well?

Taken from Jesus’ interaction with the paralytic, Mary asks the question Jesus asks: “Do you want to get well?” She unpacks Israel’s rebellion and the woman at the well’s interaction to help listeners understand how important it is to chase healing, to really run after it.

Tell the truth

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and the devil’s greatest weapon is lying. To you. To others. If he can keep you believing the lies he whispers in your ear, he will prevent you from finding the true freedom Jesus offers. Mary explores several Scriptures that deal with truth telling, and she offers practical ways you can begin saying and believing the truth.

The Weakness Paradox

Most of us see our painful past as a weakness to overcome instead of an opportunity for God to display His strength. Mary shares a theology of healing based on 2 Corinthians, camping on the importance of embracing weakness to understand His capability. She encourages you to be counter-cultural–to forgive, to let go of “why me?” and to choose to run after Jesus.

Freeing Forgiveness

Forgiveness, it’s been said, is “giving up all hope of a different past.” Mary teaches what forgiveness is not and what it is. She shares stories from her own life and those of others involving radical, freeing forgiveness. She helps audiences grapple with the power, pain, and beauty of forgiveness.

No More Abuse

Folks who are abused either find healing or they abuse, or fill their emptiness with addictions, or abuse themselves. Those not healed prefer the chaos of the past to the risk of living healed. And they fear community. Mary shares the importance of breaking free from destructive thoughts, patterns and habits, and she encourages you to heal in community. She asks, “What do you gain from staying stuck in the past?”

The Irresistible Future

There is an irresistible future to you who chase healing, who dare to figure out why God brought you along the journey you walked. God has a purpose for all that pain. Discover it in this session. Find your ministry. Use the pain from the past as a platform to help others find healing.

Writers Conference Topics

Mary is available to speak at writers conferences about:
  • point of view in fiction
  • query letter writing
  • non-fiction and fiction book proposals
  • marketing and the writer, the spiritual life of the writer
  • how-to-write fiction series

Family / Parenting Topics

Building the Christian Family You Never Had

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Do you long for a family that laughs together, prays together, and is open and honest with each other? Do you long for the type of family you never had growing up?

Mary loves teaching parents:

• How to break generational cycles.
• How to parent differently than they were parented.
• How to protect children from the negative influence of family members while still preserving the relationship.
• How to find parenting mentors.
• How to move from a rule oriented, prescribed method of parenting to parenting from the heart, parenting from the inside out.

If you read my testimony, you know I had an excruciating journey through childhood. But it’s also a story of triumph. I talk about how I learned to forgive, how May found healing–and how you can to.

Talk about tapping into God’s strength when you have nothing left. Talk about facing our inadequacies, forgiving ourselves and how to ask for forgiveness when we make mistakes. And, explore the ways to build a legacy that will stand for generations.

You Can Raise Courageous and Confident Kids

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Do you understand culture your kids live in? It’s vastly different from the world you and I grew up in. We need tools to equip our children to not only survive, but thrive in a world that calls truth a feeling. During these talks, Mary:

• Explains our culture so you can walk alongside your children with understanding and confidence.
• Shows you ways to have surprisingly open conversations, the kind that rebel-proof kids.
• Teaches how to make your home a haven so your kids are wildly enthusiastic to come home every day. Really!
• Demonstrates how to coach your kids to make wise choices.
• Shows how utilizing art can help you understand your kids better.
• Explains how to model authenticity to your kids in ways that will stay with them long after they move out of your home.

You can tailor these talks to fit the needs of your group.

Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God

No one is a perfect mom, me included. But God is perfect. And his grace and wisdom certainly are extraordinary. During this talk Mary will discuss how to:

• View motherhood as a daily adventure of impacting your children’s lives for today and eternity.
• Slow down long enough to realize how good life is.
• Find God’s wisdom and direction in every moment.

Being a mom means being in the trenches! Mary's kids, Sophie, Aidan, and Julia, have given her enough stories to fill a library. She will tell you a few, and have you share a few of yours as well.

Figure out how to stop long enough to experience God’s strength. Talk about reflecting on God and His wisdom even in the midst of laundry, meals, and driving our kids everywhere. Explore finding deep, refreshing joy in the middle of your crazy-busy life.

Marriage Conferences / Retreats / Events

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Mary & Patrick DeMuth
Patrick and Mary DeMuth planted a church in France with 20-30 postmoderns. They have been married since 1981 and are the parents of two daughters and a son. 

Topics:

  1. Preventative Marriage: Theological foundations to marriage (surprising, freeing, unexpected), Balancing expectations in marriage, Affair-proofing your marriage.
  2. Present Tense Marriage: Living in light of now, not then, Assuming positive intent, Letting God change the other person.
  3. Proactive Marriage: Practicing dreamscaping (dreaming together), Learning to live a better story beyond the American dream—a marriage that changes the landscape of the Kingdom of God
  4. Productive Marriage: Engaging marriage as a dynamic picture of the gospel, Embracing a missional marriage.
Breakout topics:

  • Mary can talk to spouses who have experienced sexual abuse and how to walk through healing in marriage.
  • Patrick can talk to spouses of abuse victims and share his story about helping me/dealing with frustration.
  • Based on the article, Opening the Door to Healing 

Expertise:

Patrick: Interim Pastor, Church Planter, Lead Pastor/Church plant in France, Masters of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, emphasis in church planting, spoken internationally

Mary: Author of more than a dozen books (several on parenting), spoken internationally, sought after speaker
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