NATIONAL SPEAKER & AUTHOR

Amy Ford is the Co-Founder and President of Embrace Grace, a non-profit that inspires and equips the church to love on single and pregnant young women and their families. She is also the author of the book, Help Her Be Brave: Discover Your Place in the Pro-Life Movement released January 2021 as well as other books. Amy speaks nationally to a varied audience including women’s ministry events, pro-life and adoption conferences, church leadership equipping and pregnancy center benefits.

Serving in Embrace Grace, she has countless stories of how churches, pregnancy centers and the body of Christ have come together to impact communities in a beautiful way.

She brings a fresh perspective of how one life can make a difference by stepping out of our comfort zones and just loving people. Amy delivers a combination of inspiration, authenticity, and depth to every event.

A GLIMPSE INTO HER STORY

Going through an unplanned pregnancy in her teens was one of the hardest times in her life. She remembers so well how lonely and ashamed she felt. Friends pulled away and she felt uncomfortable at church. Looking back on those 9 months of brokenness, fueled the passion and desire to change things for young women with unplanned pregnancies. Amy and her friend Salina, started a small group within Gateway church that met weekly with girls in that same situation providing support, friendship, guidance and love. A few years later in 2012, Embrace Grace, a national non profit to equip churches all around the nation to have a pro-love focus and help women be brave and choose life, was founded. Since then, thousands of women have gone through the Embrace Grace program and were put back on a path towards Jesus.

Serving in Embrace Grace, Amy has seen first-hand how women have felt empowered to choose life for their babies because of the impact of the pregnancy centers in their community and knowing she has the community of a local church. Pregnancy centers are the first response team and the church is the hospital.

Currently, Embrace Grace is in 50 states and 7 countries, with over 1,000 support groups in churches across the nation. The heart of Embrace Grace is to make the church one of the first places a young woman runs to instead of the last because of shame and guilt.

FAMILY

Amy has been married for over 25 years to her high school sweetheart, Ryan, and has 4 children. Her oldest son, Jess, recently obtained an MBA from Oral Roberts University, concentrating in Christian Leadership, and now works for Youth for Christ USA. He has been married to his wife, Audrey, since 2020. Mackenzie is a student at Colorado Christian University, Landry is a Junior in high school, and Judah Brave is in 6th grade. The Ford family resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.