I was a reluctant participant in our women’s conference this year, featuring Sylane Mack as our speaker. As a mom of three small girls, I didn’t think I had time to fit it in my busy and exhausting schedule. I also was squeamish about hearing her story, because I knew it would be a heavy subject matter and I wasn’t sure how encouraged I would feel after hearing all that her story entailed.
I was so very wrong and so quickly convicted of my poor attitude and hard heart! I have been a Christian all my life that I can remember, and I have heard countless speakers. Sylane’s message of forgiveness and reconciliation ranks at the very top of any I have ever heard. Her story, told so truthfully and gently, is such a testimony of the redeeming love of Jesus Christ and His pursuit of us, even the worst of all sinners.
I am so pleased Sylane is using the intense pain andsuffering in her life to point us all to the cross of the One who suffered and died for us. I witnessed the very power of God at work in her life, and I left so encouraged by her faith and blessed by her story, even though it differs so much from mine.
You will not regret inviting Sylane to speak to your group, and you will leave amazed by the way God uses her to communicate His story of relentless grace.
Mary Grace Lyon
Trinity Presbyterian Church Tuscaloosa, Alabama