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Elizabeth Styffe

Elizabeth Styffe RN PHN MN
Director of Global Orphan Care, The PEACE Plan at Saddleback Church

Elizabeth Styffe is the director of Global Orphan Care Initiatives of the PEACE Plan at Saddleback Church.

Elizabeth founded this initiative and is a recognized leader in developing innovative and sustainable solutions to the global orphan crisis with an emphasis on permanency for every child. She specializes in helping churches launch effective responses which are church-initiated, focused on ending the orphan crisis. Elizabeth’s strong and compassionate voice for orphans has been featured on Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, and UNICEF Faith-Based Council and on the White House Roundtable for Orphan Care.

A pediatric nurse, Elizabeth graduated from Biola University and earned a Master’s degree in Administration from UCLA. Prior to joining the PEACE Plan, she co-founded the HIV Initiative, was an executive in healthcare for over a decade, a nursing professor and has authored and co-authored multiple articles, including a text on Quality Management.

Elizabeth helped launch and leads the network of churches in the web-based Purpose Driven community which champions the church as God’s hope for the orphan at www.OrphansandtheChurch.com.

Married for 28 years, Elizabeth and her husband Glenn have seven children, three of whom were adopted from Rwanda.