OUR STORY
Bishop Emeritus Joseph Strickland wanted to start the Speakers Bureau so that all the parishes in the Diocese would have free access to the Catholic perspective on:
• Pro-Life Issues
• Contraception
• Abortion
• IVF
• Gender Fluidity
• The Fight for Life until Natural Death (a right that has been challenged in our hospitals and nursing homes since the 1990s)
Parishes and conferences are invited to request our Virtus-trained pro-life speakers for full-day and part-day events. Speaker requests are free of charge but donations are appreciated!
In addition to speaker events, the Speakers Bureau can arrange for sidewalk counseling training for abortion and IVF clinics.
• Pro-Life Issues
• Contraception
• Abortion
• IVF
• Gender Fluidity
• The Fight for Life until Natural Death (a right that has been challenged in our hospitals and nursing homes since the 1990s)
Parishes and conferences are invited to request our Virtus-trained pro-life speakers for full-day and part-day events. Speaker requests are free of charge but donations are appreciated!
In addition to speaker events, the Speakers Bureau can arrange for sidewalk counseling training for abortion and IVF clinics.
Help Us Get The Word Out!
Download the PDF below to print and share at your local parish:
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Sample Topics:
• 1) Chastity, the Beatific Virtue — Blessed are the Pure of Heart for They Shall See God
• 2) Humanae Vitae: Good Medicine for All Mankind. • 3) He Made Them Male and Female: the Myth of Gender Fluidity • 4) Life or Death? Twenty Answers to the Bioethics of the Human Person • 5) Using the Unwanted to Cure the Wanted: The Ethics of Fetal Tissue Research • 6) Stealth Abortion: IUDs, Depo-Provera, Mirena and Other Deadly Forms of Contraception • 7) Roe v. Wade: What Comes Next? • 8) Death Spiral: From Suppression of Conscience to Abortion • 9) My Witness for Life In Jail • 10) Project Rachel: Healing from Abortion • 11) Constitutional Law, State Legislation, and Our Involvement contact:Marina Baldwin
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Dr. Stacy Trasancos, Ph.D.
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Dr. Stacy Trasancos was a research chemist for DuPont before she left her career to be a homemaker. She has a PhD in chemistry, an MA in dogmatic theology, and is working on a MA in systematic philosophy. She is the author of five books on science, theology, and bioethics and writes frequently for Catholic publications. Stacy has been a guest on EWTN, Relevant Radio, and Catholic Answers. She loves to evangelize! It's all about leading souls to Christ. Stacy and her husband, Jose, live in Hideaway, TX and have seven children. Nine and counting grandchildren!
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Dr. José Trasancos, Ph.D.
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Dr. José Trasancos, Ph.D., is a fiercely patriotic naturalized American citizen from Cuba, who is Chief Executive Officer of the Children of God for Life. He holds advanced degrees in Mathematics, Applied Analytical Methods, and Political Science He works with his wife, Stacy, advancing pro-life causes, advocating for the preservation of human dignity and fighting to end the use of aborted fetal tissue in science and commerce. José and Stacy live in Hideaway, Texas, surrounded by five children, one granddaughter (one of nine grandchildren).
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Nicoel Mattes
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Nicoel Mattes is a physician pursuing her residency in family medicine here in Tyler, Texas. She was inspired to go into medicine to serve God and His people in a way that respects the dignity of all persons from conception to natural death. When not working, she enjoys spending time with family, reading, and trying new foods.
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Pennie Vanderbroek
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Pennie Vandenbroek likes surprises and adventures. When she became involved in the pro-life movement in 1993, she didn’t expect that would lead to becoming a Catholic a few years later. Nor did she imagine she would get to live with 150 roommates in a woman’s jail in Los Angeles for three months. Pennie’s life has taken her from Minnesota to Oklahoma, from California to Canada, and most recently to Tyler, Texas. This wife, mother, and grandmother believes that God has special assignments for each of us for which He prepares us in unexpected ways.
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Matthew Sciba, LPC
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Matthew Sciba, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor, an expert in the field of sexual and identity issues, and is the founder of The Freedom Clinic counseling center. Matthew is a member of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Tyler. He focuses much of his attention and energy on building a strong family rooted in knowing, loving, and serving God. Matthew is a native Texan and enjoys bass fishing with his sons.
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Fonda Luersman
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Fonda Luersman serves the Sanctity of Life Action Committee in Communications and Ministry coordination. She previously worked as the Project Rachel Coordinator in the Diocese of Venice, Florida, and the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio, working to bring hope and healing to those suffering after abortion. From 1997-2012 she worked with the Catholic Pro-life Committee of North Texas in various outreaches including "Convert-to-Life," organizing sidewalk counseling efforts and offering women help and and alternatives to abortion. Fonda has a B.A. from the University of California at Riverside, received her teaching certificate from Franciscan University of Steubenville, and a M.A. in Professional Counseling from Amberton University, Texas. She currently lives with her husband Len in Kilgore, Texas.
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Deborah Streckfus
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Deborah Streckfus is a long-time activist in the pro-life movement. She has experience as a catechist, teacher, journalist and home-educator. Her areas of interest include politics, history, apologetics, culture, education, bioethics, philosophy and liturgy. She enjoys reading, classical and sacred music, acting, rosary-making and volunteering. She is a chorister and cantor at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and member of the Legion of Mary.
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Marianna Trzeciak
Marianna Trzeciak, BA, JD, attended Princeton University and Rutgers Law School on merit scholarships. After a judicial clerkship, Trzeciak practiced civil and criminal litigation in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and taught law as an adjunct professor. Trzeciak has studied piano at the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and anthropology at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Bordeaux, France. A dedicated homeschool mother of three for the last 20+ years, Trzeciak contributed a novel argument to an amicus brief on behalf of Norma McCorvey's Rule 60 motion, essentially to overturn Roe v. Wade. Trzeciak has led 40 Days for Life campaigns and has spoken on behalf of the preborn and other vulnerable people at college, law school, community and diocesan settings.
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Carlos Flores, RN
Carlos is a Faith Community Nurse presently working in health ministry through the Diocese of Tyler and St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Flint. He is a Master Catechist and was commissioned for lay ecclesial ministry leadership in May 2014 and for Ministries to the Homebound in 2024. Through his ministries, coupled with his 35-year registered nursing career in pediatric trauma, He has developed countless programs and projects directed towards the safety, health, and wellness of all peoples through faith-based communities. He and his wife Sally, also a nurse, live in Bullard, Texas.
Sample Talk:
"Be Not Afraid: A Catholic discussion on teen depression and suicide prevention" |
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Katherine Maxwell-McDonald
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