Laurel Appel

LAUREL APPEL is an award-winning author, having garnered the Gold Medal in the 2023 Illumination Book Awards and was named a Finalist in the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Book Awards. She has over twenty-five years of experience studying and teaching the Bible and has written Bible studies for both adults and children. Her passion is to free people into the grace of God through her books, studies, and speaking engagements. Drawing from her varied experiences in life, Laurel’s message is both relatable and often familiar to her readers and listeners. She and her husband, Phillip, have three grown children and three precious grand-princesses who are the joy of their lives. They live and minister together in North Carolina. For fun, Laurel enjoys painting on canvases, walls, faces, or whatever surface paint adheres to, playing games, and doing interior decorating. She also enjoys being lazy, drinking coffee, ordering dinner in, and watching stupid shows on television.