About Us

It started over a cup of coffee with four military spouses discussing military life and laughing over the crazy things that happen when the military member is deployed. The conversation quickly moved to the challenges of the military life including loneliness and extreme amounts of stress. There, in a small coffee shop in north Colorado Springs, Wings for Women was born to address these same issues and more for thousands of military spouses in Colorado Springs and around the nation.

The first Wings for Women Conference was held Saturday April 25, 2009 at Pikes Peak Christian Church 4955 Bradley Road in Colorado Springs from 8:00 am until Noon. The conference gave military spouses a relaxing morning full of friendship, worship and praise while they learned about the purpose to which they have been called as a military spouse, and found the resources to fill themselves spiritually and emotionally to meet that calling.

There are more than 800,000 military spouses and families supporting their troops in the armed forces and reserves. And many of these families are struggling with not only the issues every family faces, but on top of that long deployments, marriage and communication over long distances, and helping the children (and ourselves) cope with grief, fear and high levels of stress that military life brings.

Wings for Women aims to help any military spouse who desires to be involved with our conferences in any way we can. We want to provide relevant resources and coping tools to make the stresses of military life easier to handle.

One of the best things about this organization is that it was conceived, started and organized by military spouses; people who have had many years of experience as a military spouse and can offer real help and solutions from our own backgrounds of trial and error.

Objectives

To reach military spouses nationwide with a message of hope and encouragement at little cost to them
To provide meaningful childcare with programs to address military children’s needs at little cost
To positively establish a yearly conference in each community we strive to represent

Mission

To offer hope, encouragement and empowerment to military-associated women (primarily spouses, but also former spouses, active duty, retired, DoD, and even mothers of military) to:

Live joyfully with faith
Fulfill God’s mission for their lives
Use resources available to assist with military challenges
Find freedom in Christ

Here is a 2 minute video highlighting our conference!

About the Founder: Alane Pearce

Alane Pearce is an author, speaker and military spouse who has a heart for helping women live to their fullest potential. As a military spouse for 16 years, Alane has vast experience about what it takes to thrive in a military family. Now she brings that experience to life as she partners with other military spouses to offer hope, encouragement, resources and relevance to military spouses around the world.

Alane has run three successful businesses and has vast experience with nonprofits. She calls home wherever the military sends her family to live and minister to those around her. Alane and her husband have a son who was born in Ukraine and a Dalmatian who was born in Hawaii.