Meet the 2025 Speakers!
Ramona Treviño
Ramona Treviño worked as the manager of a Planned Parenthood abortion referral facility in Sherman, Texas, until 2011, when God used the prayers and public witness of a 40 Days for Life campaign to move her to leave her job and reclaim her walk with Christ. Ramona’s resignation from Planned Parenthood resulted in her former center going out of business. Ramona has shared the miracle of her conversion and the goodness of Christ’s mercy throughout the U.S. and internationally through speaking engagements as well as print, broadcast, and online media.
Ramona is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She is the author of Redeemed by Grace: A Catholic Woman’s Journey to Planned Parenthood and Back.
Jonathon Van Maren
Jonathon Van Maren serves as the Communications Director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. His writings have been translated into more than six languages and published in the countless news publications. He regularly speaks on a variety of social issues at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions in Canada, the United States, and Europe.His insights have been featured on CTV, Global News, and the CBC, as well as over twenty radio stations.
He is the author of six books, including his most recent book titled
How We Got Here: A Guide to Our Anti-Christian Culture.
Len Friesen
Ann E. Gillies
Ann E. Gillies, Ph.D. is the founder of Restoring the Mosaic. She spent over 25 years in private counselling practice working extensively with trauma survivors, seeing lives restored and transformed. Ann retired from practice in 2019 to focus on advocacy and political reform, for the traumatized; those struggling with unwanted sexual attractions and for the most vulnerable – our children.
Ann and her husband, Bob, have a blended family of six adult children and are the proud grandparents of 12 beautiful grandchildren.
Len Friesen is the national director of Legacy Coalition Canada. He was born in Paraguay SA and moved to Canada at the age of nine. Len and his wife Pam have served as missionaries/Regional Directors with Awana for over 14 years and managed a collision repair shop for 10 years. Most recently, Len has started and runs his own renovation and construction business.
Len and his wife Pam, live in Steinbach Manitoba, and have three children and four grandchildren.
