SONGWRITER, AUTHOR, SPEAKER

Christian music artist Staci Frenes has spent the last 25 years singing and leading worship in churches, at Christian conferences, women’s retreats and other faith-based venues. This UC-Berkeley graduate, mom and former English teacher turned her lifelong love of music into a full-time vocation, forming her own publishing company and record label. She built a successful independent career, releasing ten albums of original music and landing multiple film and television placements, including "America’s Next Top Model", "The Biggest Loser," and "Nashville."

Staci added author and speaker to her resume in 2014 with her self-published book, "Flourish", about how to cultivate a life in which our unique gifts find their full expression. Her most recent book reflects a season of deep, profound changes in her faith and family life: "Love Makes Room" is a memoir about coming to accept and understand her daughter’s gay orientation within the context of her deeply-rooted Christian faith.

Articulate, authentic and hopeful, Staci Frenes writes and speaks about the truths that resonate in every aspect of life, and she is confident that the process can be as beautiful as the finish.

“Love makes room”

When Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her dreams for the future—along with her lifelong faith—collapsing around her. Coming to terms with a new reality was a challenge, and an invitation, to make room for many things along the way: the inevitability of uncertainty, hope in the midst of loss, awkward and tough conversations, an expanding faith, and a greater understanding of how people are more the same than different.

In Love Makes Room, Frenes helps readers see that a reimagined future may look different than our old hoped-for pictures of ourselves and our families, but it can also be wider, deeper, and more fulfilling than we ever dreamed.