Thank You
Thank you so much for filling out the
Thank you so much for filling out the speaker’s request form here on the website. We are honored that you would think of us for this ministry need and we will get back to you once we have had time to consider your request over prayer and our present calendar commitments.
In the meantime, if you need anything from us, don’t hesitate to email or call. We want to serve Jesus well by serving you well.
For His glory,
– Ray & Jani Ortlund
About Ray & Jani Ortlund
What Ray and Jani Ortlund care about most is more and more people renewed within by the gospel of Jesus. Only the gospel helps sinners and sufferers. And it does, by the power of God. Nothing can resist the freeing power of Jesus.
Ray and Jani met at Wheaton College in 1968 and married in 1971. Today they serve Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee – an Acts 29 church. Ray also serves on the Council of The Gospel Coalition and blogs at the Coalition website. Jani speaks to women’s groups around the world. Both are published authors.
Ray is a graduate of Wheaton College, Dallas Theological Seminary, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Jani is a graduate of Wheaton College and National Louis University.
Together Ray and Jani have served in gospel ministry for over 40 years. They have four outstanding children and fifteen fabulous grandchildren.
Ray loves to hunt. Jani loves to garden. They love each other most of all!
Pastor Ray Ortlund received a B.A. from Wheaton College, Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, M.A. from The University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Pastor Ortlund served as Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, from 1989-1998.
He was ordained by Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Pasadena, California, in 1975. He served as the pastor of Immanuel Church, Nashville, Tennessee (an Acts 29 church), is a Council member with The Gospel Coalition, and is the President of Renewal Ministries. Ray has been married to Jani Giles Ortlund for fifty happy years, and they have fifteen delightful grandchildren.
As an author and a speaker, one of Jani Ortlund’s chief goals in life is to connect women with the Word of God. As Executive Vice President of Renewal Ministries, God is using her in women’s conferences both in the United States and abroad.
Jani’s first book, Fearlessly Feminine (Multnomah, 2000), encourages women to boldly embrace God’s unique design for them as women. Her second book, His Loving Law, Our Lasting Legacy: Living the Ten Commandments and Giving Them to Our Children (Crossway, 2007) demonstrates the relevance of the Ten Commandments for today and offers practical ways to live them out and teach them to the children in your life. Her third book, A Child’s First Book About Marriage: God’s Way is Always Best, explains the beauties of God’s plan for marriage to children of any age, introducing them to a different, counter–cultural way of viewing these aspects of life and faith. Jani’s latest book, Help! I’m Married to My Pastor, is written for ministry wives who feel alone, afraid, and stressed to the limit, reminding them that God will work out his good purposes through even the hardest moments of ministry and marriage.
Besides conference speaking and writing, Jani is a pastor’s wife, mother, grandmother, and former elementary school teacher. She holds a master’s degree in education. Jani is married to Rev. Dr. Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr., author, former seminary professor, and pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Ortlunds have four married children and fifteen grandchildren, serving Christ throughout the United States and Great Britain. When Jani is not speaking, writing, or visiting family, you’ll find her in her garden, enjoying tea with a friend, or taking a long walk with her beloved husband.