Kelli Worrall

Kelli Worrall is a Professor of Communications at Moody, where she has served since 1998. From 2019 - 2026 she also served as the Field Chair for the Music & Media Arts field. She teaches writing, speaking, and strategic communication classes and has directed many theater productions on campus. She advises the NEW Strategic Communications Practicum Team.

Professor Worrall is the author of Pierced and Embraced: 7 Life-Changing Encounters with the Love of Christ (Moody Publishers, 2017) and the co-author (with husband Peter, also an MBI faculty member) of 20 Things We’d Tell Our Twentysomething Selves (Moody Publishers, 2015). She contributed to the Moody Handbook of Preaching (Moody Publishers, 2008) and the One Volume Seminary (Moody Publishers, 2022).

Professor Worrall is a regular contributor to Moody’s daily devotional Today in the Word. Some of her TITW studies have been Esther (February 2020), Hosea (August 2021), Women in the Old Testament (March 2021 and March 2022), Luke (December 2022), Women in the New Testament (March 2023), Send Me: What the Bible Says about Calling (November 2023), and What the Bible Says about Communication (August 2026). Other writing projects include curriculum products and Bible study materials for various publishers and a work-for-hire family memoir, Preserved by Providence (2023).

Professor Worrall is passionate about sharing the truth of God’s Word in a variety of settings. She regularly speaks at women’s retreats and events. She and her husband also speak together at marriage, family, and young adult retreats.

Professor Worrall serves on the Bible teaching team for the women’s ministry at her home church, Grace Community Bible Church, in Lake Villa, Illinois.

She studied Communications at Cedarville University (BS), Religious Education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MRE), and Creative Writing at Roosevelt University (MFA). She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Strategic Communications(DSC) degree from Regent University.

The Worralls live in McHenry, Illinois, with their two children through adoption: Daryl (18) and Amelia (15).

You can read some of her writing and learn more about her speaking ministry at www.kelliworrall.com