Author Kori King de Leon, McCook native, featured 'Age of Crowns' converence

Friday, October 19, 2018
Kori King de Leon
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HOUSTON, Texas — Kori King de Leon hopes her new book is the kind word, the good word described in Proverbs 12:25.

“Proverbs 12:25 says that anxiety weighs down a heart, but a kind word cheers it up,” Kori said Wednesday afternoon.

Kori will share the message of her second book, “Age of Crowns: Pursuing Lives Marked by the Kingdom of God,” at a conference Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27, at McCook Christian Church, in her hometown of McCook. Kori will speak from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday, and from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday. Childcare will be available Saturday only for $8 per child.

Contact McCook Christian Church (507 West B Street, 308-345-1516, or mccookchristian.church) for registration information. Kori’s book and conference tickets are available at New Life Christian Book Store, 212 Norris in downtown McCook.

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Kori promises that her new book “is filled with hopeful promises of amazing things to come. It looks at the great things coming for believers in Jesus Christ, and teaches women how to live now in view of those things.”

Kori writes, “Can you imagine what you life will begin to look like when you start taking steps to begin saturating your mind with the bright reality of Jesus Christ our good King?”

She continues, “It will take discipline. But God tells us that there are rich rewards in the present life, as well as the life to come, for those who discipline themselves for godliness.”

Kori says her message in “Age of Crowns” translates to women of all ages. “We all have so much overwhelming anxiety,” she says. “ … anxiety over singleness. Struggles over marriage, over mid-life … finances. Declining health … retirement,” Kori says. “I hope my book imparts hope and spiritual energy to all women.”

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Kori is excited to come to McCook, where she grew up. Kori, and her sister, Joey, are the daughters of Vicky (Fidler) and the late Brad King. Kori is a 1995 graduate of McCook Senior High.

A profound transformation turned Kori from a life driven by passions, “walking deep in sin and separated from God.” She writes, “God allowed my sinful pursuits to become bitter and gave me a preview of where such a life would lead; namely, emptiness and ruin.” She learned, “ … apart from God, nothing ends well, nothing ends happy, and nothing ends right.”

Kori earned a master’s degree in theology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and founded “Adoring Christ Ministries.” Through her ministries, Kori uses her gifts of teaching, writing and speaking to reach women through retreats such as the one she has scheduled in McCook.

The purpose of Adoring Christ Ministries is: “Through teaching, speaking, and writing, Adoring Christ invites women globally to experience the glorious nature of God and His grand design of re-creating them into His divine likeness through Jesus Christ.” Read more and learn more at www.adoringchrist.org.

Kori’s first book is “Adoring Christ: Beholding God’s Beauty and Becoming Like Him,” published in February 2015.

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Kori and her husband, Bobby, and their daughter, Jade, live in Houston. Bobby has a master’s degree in biblical counseling from Southern Seminary.

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