May 3, 2005
For our Missions Conference we made a deliberate decision to invite only world class missions speakers.
Marilyn certainly fit the bill for us.
Her life story, her challenging ministry and her personal warmth have won the hearts of our church family.
Her humor and sense of the dramatic have made missions open up for our adults and particularly our young
people. We have not only invited her back to speak several times, but by demand she was first choice for 2005
as a repeat Missions Conference speaker. We as a missions group support her on a regular basis, as well as having
mission projects over the years. In 2001 we raised funds to purchase canoe motors for Papua New Guinea, and
just last monght concluded a fund raising project for Bibles in Iraq.
Our pastor and I were recently discussing this past January's mission conference, and he remarked that
the top thing that he liked about Marilyn was that she developed one central message in her ministry
and that it would stick with you. The simple message our chruch got this year was this: "The safest place
in the world is right in the center of God's will". What a message for our times and particularly for
our young people and young adults. Marilyn is very special to us and we hope to have her back again.
Pierre Loizeaux, Mission Conference Chairman, Sanibel Community Church
