Karen Pence to speak at conference to create ‘Godly leaders’

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TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana first lady Karen Pence will speak Friday at a conference in Carmel meant to help build “Godly leaders” to improve the nation.

Karen Pence joins her husband, now-Gov. Mike Pence, just before the 2012 election he won. Photo by Lesley Weidenbener, TheStatehouseFile.com

The event – presented by Indiana-based faith groups Truth@Work and EDGE Mentoring – takes place at Northview Christian Church.

Pence, the wife of Republican Gov. Mike Pence, will talk about “mentoring the next generation of young leaders,” said Ray Hilbert, the chief executive officer of Truth@Work, which serves as a resource for Christian business owners.

“We have many challenges in front of us and the core of our problem lies in this: It’s time for the church of Jesus Christ to rise up and produce the kind of Godly leaders that our country so desperately needs,” Hilbert said in a video promoting the conference. “That’s what this conference is all about.”

The event will also feature a number of business leaders, authors Patrick Lencioni and Francis Chan, Indy race car driver Ed Carpenter, college basketball and Pacers analyst Clark Kellogg, and Jackie Griffin, mother of National Football League quarterback Robert Griffin III.

It costs $39 for the first 1,000 people who sign up and $49 for all those after.