Here are just some of the responses we received during and after our Abortion Recovery Leadership Symposium:
"I thought it was excellent. Absolutely awesome. Please do this again!" ~ Kim Olson, Freedom through Forgiveness Ministries
"Excellent! Mutual encouragement and education." ~ Lynn Coles, Choose Life Ministries, Northern Ireland
"Great brainstorming" ~ Debbie Henagan, Project 5:17, Louisiana
"Loved the "playing in the sandbox" and marketing presentations. It's totally amazing how humble the ARIN staff are - willing to share resources - goal is truly helping people heal - ego is taken out. How refreshing and encouraging. Thank you." ~ Jo Balsamo, Project Rachel Arlington
"Have more break-out sessions" ~ Kathy Horst, Mercy's Call, Maryland
"Great vehicle for keeping ministries up to date." ~ Dane Wren, Reveille Ministries, Florida
"Excellent opportunity for discussion and networking." ~ Margaret Cuthill, British Victims of Abortion, United Kingdom
"Loved it. Very helpful and informative." ~ Marisa Maese, Corona Life Services, California
"Special thanks to Stacy and Kim for setting the awesome spiritual tone and atmosphere. The Symposium was helpful, challenging and informative" ~ Mirian Mitten, Capital Area Pregnancy Center, Pennsylvania
"Would have liked speakers to have a microphone and have it taped" ~ Laurie Wren, Reveille Ministries, Florida
"Presenters were excellent, materials were excellent. So much useful information." ~ Marcia Schexnider, Project 5:17
"This was SO good and a wealth of information. I thoroughly enjoyed it and gathered much information from this. I wanted more! Thank you very much. We are joining ARIN now. I've been a director for 10/5 years of a 25 year old Pregnancy Center... I wish I had had this years ago! Awesome." ~ Denise Miller, Pregnancy Resource Center of Panoma City, Florida
"Size of the room = good. Acoustics = good. Speakers = excellent. Sense of humor = wonderful. Information = outstanding. Warmth of people = such a blessing! Thank you so much for your fun sense of humor and wonderful gift of love and joy extended to all of us." ~ Ginny Keblusek, Texas
"More breaks and chocolate. :) " ~ Sheila Harper, SaveOne, Tennessee
"This was fantastic!! Want more than one day." ~ Janet Pilkerton, Mercy's Call, Maryland
"Great info. Almost wish we had 2 days to digest this." ~ Pam Malchow, Corona Life Services, California
"Do this every 2 years as a 2 day event. Thanks Stacy, you did a wonderful and professional job of organizing and moderating." ~ Dr. Catherine Coyle, Alliance for Post-Abortion Research and Training
Prior to the Abortion Recovery Symposium, Leaders from around the globe completed an online Leaders Survey to collaborate their thoughts and develop the outline which was used to brainstorm and network at the 2009 Symposium. If you would like a copy of the final result of the 2009 Leaders Survey, you can email us a request to: Leaders Survey Request