Find Your Local Crave Gathering
There are three things women crave: Jesus, Coffee, and Conversation! Gather around the table with women of all ages and stages who desire to have conversation that matters! We are a multi-generational group of women who meet once a month at multiple locations for dessert, Bible-Teaching, and authentic community.
Crave Curriculum
Planted to Wonder
Do you ever feel questions bubble up beneath the surface of your faith? We realize there are two responses to those questions. We can either wander from God to find answers or plant ourselves and lean toward God in wonder for wisdom. This spring, we will look at some of the questions that lead us to become wonderers and discover the anchor that will make our faith sure.
Together, let’s unpack scripture and be transformed by it.
We have designed every gathering at Ignite Life to play a part in equipping, empowering, and mobilizing you in your faith journey with Jesus. The same curriculum will be taught at every gathering - regardless of which location you attend.
Crave Locations
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CRAVE West meets at Avenue Church
6050 S Buffalo Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89113
2nd Wednesday of the month | 6:30-8:00 PM
Spring 2024 Schedule: January 8, February 12, March 12, April 9
*No childcare available at this location.
**Tickets are non-refundable.
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CRAVE Northwest meets at Meadows Fellowship
7801 W Alexander Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89129
2nd Monday of the month | 6:30-8:00 PM
Spring 2025 Schedule:
January 13, February 10, March 10, April 14*No childcare available at this location.
**Tickets are non-refundable.
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CRAVE Central meets at Cornerstone Church
5825 Eldora Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89146
3rd Wednesday of the month | 6:30-8:00 PM
Spring 2025 Schedule: January 15, February 19, March 19, April 16
*No childcare available at this location.
**Tickets are non-refundable.
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CRAVE Southeast meets at Neighborhood Church
203 West Basic Road Henderson, NV 89015
3rd Thursday of the month | 6:30-8:00 PM
Spring 2025 Schedule: January 16, February 20, March 20, April 17
*No childcare available at this location.
**Tickets are non-refundable.
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CRAVE Southwest meets at The Crossing Church
7950 W Windmill Ln, Las Vegas, NV 89113
2nd Thursday of the month | 6:30-8:00 PM
Fall 2024 Schedule: August 8, September 12, October 16, November 14
*Childcare is available with advance registration at this location.
**Tickets are non-refundable.
Crave Speakers
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Vanessa has a heart for people to grow in intimacy with Christ. She is passionate about transforming potential into action. At the age of 24, Vanessa founded her ministry, Ignite Life, with the mission to equip, empower, and mobilize women to be the spark that ignites change in the world for the sake of Christ. Out of her desire to mobilize women in the church, one small conference gave birth to a movement of Christian women. Although this ministry is a huge priority in her life, her first ministry is her family. Vanessa has been married to her “Prince” Evan, for 12 years and her life is filled with joy and chaos raising her three children (Owen, 11; Ethan, 9; Charlotte, 6)
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Robin Smith is passionate about equipping people to lead with their unique God-given gifts. Robin has a strong tie to her church, community, and work. She firmly believes that all three are sacred. Her greatest joy is doing life together in community; encouraging, strengthening, and challenging each other to be their very best and reach their full potential.
Robin is the founder of Focus Consulting, where she invests in people with a unique focus on, but not limited to, women leading non-profit ministries. Through her consulting, Robin walks with others through individual coaching, Lead Well: online leadership cohorts, FOCUSed Women: in-person masterminds, women’s retreats, and public speaking. Robin has 40 years of non-profit leadership experience, and the desire of her heart is to share what she has learned to help others reach their potential and accomplish their personal and professional goals.
Robin partners with Ignite Life through her consulting by assisting them with training and development. Robin is passionate about the ministry of Ignite Life and loves being able to support the ministry in this way. Robin also serves on the Ignite Life Board of Directors and the Ignite Life Speaking Team as a communicator of God’s Word.
Robin and her husband Homer have been married for 40 years, have two grown children, and attend Avenue church, where they focus on spiritual formation and mentoring others.
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Liv Dooley
As the founder of the Colorfully Candid Paradigm and an international speaker, Liv Dooley has a gift for drawing others into the Word of God in new and refreshing ways. When others spend time with her in the Word, they walk away feeling more enlightened and impassioned about the great Savior of the universe.
Liv founded the Colorfully Candid Paradigm, a Christian organization that supports mothers, mentors, and daughters in 2014. Since then, she and the women she works with have supported the biblical growth of girls and women throughout seven different countries through the mentorship groups and events they've hosted. Their core values are as follows: we find our value in Christ Jesus; we create community among women and girls; we elevate Christ’s love through candid conversations.
As a Bible teacher, Liv is passionate about equipping each audience member with steps that they can implement into their own lives to grow in confidence as a Christian today. Liv is the host of The Best Kept Secret with Liv Dooley, and when she's not podcasting or writing, she's somewhere curled up with a book or out on a hike with her husband and their dogs. You can find more about her at livdooley.com or on Instagram @CandidLiv.
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Jenny Christiansen is a speaker, teacher, and mentor who places high value on equipping others to live out full, wonderfully complex, Gospel-centered stories! Through sharing scriptural principles and practical insights, she hopes to inspire people to:
–Experience God’s presence in their everyday life
–Trust God through life’s challenges
–Pray like warriors, fear less, and live more!
Jenny likes to call herself a “People Investor”. Thankfully, she has found herself doing precisely that. She has spent over 25 years as an educator, both as a classroom teacher and a school administrator. She treasures the opportunity to work with individuals, small groups, and large audiences to inspire them to live with joy!
But as much as she loves ministry, she enjoys a good cup of coffee, mountain lakes, friendships, exercise and reading books. Her favorite people are her husband, Craig, her daughters, son-in-laws and 8 charming grandchildren.
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Because Jesus uses the fisherman, tax collector and water-gathering woman to share the best stories, He has called Sara Jessa to speak His truth from a layman’s life. In this season, Sara is learning to serve her husband of 20 years, nurture a pair of amazing teenagers, and passionately pursue Jesus into a “faith-rest” life. Her ministry, Experience Faith, allows her to seek and share thin spaces, inviting others to join her in creating space to encounter Jesus in nature, rest and retreats. Sara’s magnetic energy invites friends and strangers alike to “want what she’s having”... more Jesus!
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Equilla Hicks loves the wonderful life God has blessed her with! She is a wife, mom and a Lola (Grandma) who founded Lift One Up – a non-profit organization meant to inspire, encourage, and motivate women to be all that God has destined them to be. Through Lift One Up, Equilla mentors women, hosts retreats, hosts and facilitates international mission trips, and collaborates with local organizations that serve women and youth. She has the privilege of being an Associate Pastor at ChurchLV where she has learned, flourished, and served for over 19 years.
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Sarah Hechanova is a gifted leader and speaker, noted for her practical wisdom and strong faith. For the past 13 years she has enjoyed pastoring Neighborhood Church alongside her husband, Dodjiel, in the heart of downtown Henderson. Sarah loves to witness ladies’ lives changed for the glory of God. She embraces anytime she can speak His Word to ignite eternal transformation. When she is not serving the church community, you will find her soaking up every moment that she can with her family. Dodjiel and Sarah have four children – Lexi, Ethan, Noah, Gabe, and a granddaughter, Everly.