Our 17th annual Women of Bethany retreat will be held at the Chateau Cartier hotel in Gatineau, on November 12th – 14th, 2010. Our Scripture for this year's retreat is Isaiah 43:1 "I have called you by name, you are Mine." We are pleased to announce that the speaker for this retreat will be Johnnette Benkovic.

Johnnette S. Benkovic is Founder and President of Living His Life Abundantly, a Catholic evangelization apostolate with outreaches in television, radio, print, and internet communications. She is also Founder of Women of Grace, a Catholic apostolate for Christian women that features a number of outreaches including conferences, curricula, study groups and more.

After years of being a non-practicing Catholic, Johnnette experienced a deep conversion back to her Catholic faith in 1981 and discerned a call to share the Gospel message through the media. She has been a consistent presence in Catholic radio since 1987 and in Catholic television since 1988. She is host of Women of Grace Live, a one hour call-in radio talk show that airs live five times a week and she is also Executive Producer of The Abundant Life, a television program that discusses contemporary issues from a Catholic perspective.

In addition, Johnnette is a popular conference speaker, retreat conductor, and seminar presenter. She has been published in major Catholic magazines and is the author of several books. Johnnette was married to her husband, Anthony, for nearly 34 years and became widowed in 2007. She is the mother of three adult children, two living.