Encouraging, optimistic, always upbeat, and energetic—at the young age of 92, Marilyn Hickey actively ministers internationally, most recently in Iran, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, India, China, and Pakistan, as well as domestically in the United States through Bible Encounters and speaking engagements.

Marilyn has had audiences with government leaders and heads of state all over the world. She is the first woman to join the Board of Directors of the largest church in the world, Dr. David Yonggi’s Church Growth International in South Korea.

She has traveled to 138 countries and plans to visit many more in the years to come. She and her late husband Wallace   were married over 50 years, and have two children and four grandchildren.