Restoration Connection Weekend
Helping restore spiritual, relational, and emotional health.
Let's face it, life can be stressful, discouraging and at times confusing, Restoration Connection Weekend was founded to provide a restful, inspiring and encouraging space.
We believe true restoration isn't just recovery, but an ongoing journey of being led and loved by Jesus.
Our ministry philosophy centers on Psalm 23, framing spiritual growth not as a crisis response, but as a daily walk with Jesus.
We seek to equip you with Biblically grounded wisdom for faith, relationships, and daily life.
Restoration Connection
Our mission: To facilitate restoration by providing biblically based encouragement and insight on a wide range of practical life issues.
Our Vision: To produce a program of significant ministry impact, Christian excellence, doctrinal fidelity and Christ-exalting focus.
Don Hawkins is the host, founder, and executive producer of Restoration Connection. He also serves as President/CEO of Encouragement Communications and General Manager of The Worship Channel internet radio station (www.theworshipchannel.org), and as Senior Content Officer for the Master Life Coach Training Institute.
For 13 years Dr. Hawkins served as President of Southeastern Bible College in Birmingham, Alabama. The former Vice President and Executive Director of the Minirth Meier Clinic, Dr. Hawkins has authored or co-authored over 25 books, including The Roots of Inner Peace, Never Give Up, Master Discipleship Today, How to Beat Burnout, Leadership Under Fire, and Friends in Deed.
Dr. Hawkins came to Southeastern Bible College from Back to the Bible, where he served as co-host and producer of the Back to the Bible radio program, heard on over 600 stations worldwide. He hosted the live nationwide call-in program, Life Perspectives, for over twenty years. Prior to that he hosted and produced the award-winning Minirth-Meier Clinic live call-in radio program.
Kathy is an experienced conference speaker, Spiritual Life Coach, and author of several books including The Heart of a Stranger, The Desires of the Heart, and The Heart of a Lion from The Heart of Zion series, and Shiloh.
She is a graduate of Southeastern Bible College and holds an M.A. in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary.
Dr. Don Hawkins
COO Encouragement Communications
After earning a Bachelor of Arts from Southeastern Bible College in 1967 and a Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1974, Dr. Hawkins earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Calvary Theological Seminary in 1998. He is a veteran conference and seminar speaker and has over 25 years of pastoral experience. Don and his wife Kathy have three grown children, twelve grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
Host, General Manager · President, Encouragement Communications
Kathy Hawkins
Dan grew up in a Christian family in Ft. Worth, Texas. He became a believer in Jesus Christ at the age of four years, being led to faith by his older sister. His early hobbies were playing at the creek near his childhood home, ham radio, wood working, landscaping, and model airplanes. Summer camp was greatly used by God to shape and direct Dan during his pre-teen and teen-age years. While training for the gospel ministry at Calvary University and Dallas Theological Seminary, Dan worked at a number of Christian radio stations early in his career. This led to working with the production team of the Minirth-Meier Clinic live, nationwide call-in program, heard on the Moody Broadcasting Network during the late eighties and early nineties.
For the last thirty plus years, Dan has owned WM Productions, an audio post-production and small a/v firm. He has edited and produced for many Christian radio programs and Christian ministries including Encounter, Mission Aviation Fellowship, Hope for the Heart, PowerPoint, Back to the Bible, Living on the Edge, The Urban Alternative, East-West Ministries and others. Dan loves his work in the recovery ministry called Regeneration at his local church and also loves Bible teaching to small groups. Dan currently lives in Rowlett Texas, is married to LuAnn, is father of two adult children and has one grandchild.
Women's ministry LEader, Author, Speaker, Spiritual Life Coach
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Juni Felix
Guest Host, Women's ministry LEader, Author, Speaker,
Juni Felix is a woman of prayer. An author, radio host, women's ministry leader and speaker. She is the author of You are Worth the Work: Moving Forward from Trauma to Faith and a Tiny Habits® Coach and a graduate of Dr. BJ Fogg's (Stanford) Behavior Design Lab Academy.
Juni is also an highly awarded voice actor, an international radio drama scriptwriter (Trans World Radio's Women of Hope), a C.S Lewis Institute fellow, and graduate of Southeastern Bible College in Biblical Studies and Leadership. With more than two decades of broadcasting experience, she brings together faith, the science of Behavior Design, and compassionate communication to encourage people to believe that absolutely nothing is impossible with God. In her free time, she loves to playing video games with her husband and two sons, as well as hiking, distance running and learning how to garden. (All gardening tips are much appreciated.) Her life's motto is "Kindness is a Superpower." (Galatians 5:22-23)
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