After graduating from the University of Akron with a degree in elementary education, Sylvia Slifko worked in the Akron Public school system teaching 5th grade. After 4 years, and the birth of their first child, Sylvia left teaching to raise her family and work with her husband in their residential construction company and rental management business.

In 1990 Sylvia felt a calling from God to get involved in pro-life work, and one year later co-founded Community Pregnancy Center in Barberton, Ohio. In 1995, she left that ministry to start another pregnancy center, Suburban Pregnancy Services which later became Pregnancy Solutions and Services. She is still active there as Board Treasurer.

While working as Executive Director at PSS, Sylvia started a mobile ultrasound ministry, then called Image Clear Ultrasound (ICU), designed to go out to pregnant women who might be considering abortion to show them their unborn babies. That idea grew into a the globall ministry of ICU Mobile where Sylvia now serves as Board Chair.

Sylvia is a member of Marantha Bible Church where she serves as a women’s Bible study leader, and a teacher in the children’s department. She and her husband, Steve, reside in Marshallville, Ohio where they raise buffalo and enjoy life on the farm. They have 2 married daughters, and five granddaughters.

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