Adopted at birth and raised in San Diego, Troy Newman has more than 27 years of leadership experience in business and pro-life ministry – a mix of skills that have served him well in successfully growing Christian organizations.
Since 1999, Troy has served as president of Operation Rescue. Through his peaceful, proactive efforts, he has forged exciting bottom-line results. Troy’s work has permanently closed hundreds of abortion mills, led dozens of abortionists to leave the killing industry, spared countless babies from abortion, and is changing lives through the public offering of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
He is especially recognized for his growing success in developing and applying cutting-edge pro-life strategies.
Troy was the architect and innovator of the “Truth Truck” campaign and the “Show the Truth” Tours. An accomplished strategist with remarkable success, his work has been featured in the Rolling Stone Magazine, GQ, USA Today, WND.com, Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, NYT, and a host of other print media. He is regularly featured on radio programs and television news broadcasts, and his unique insights have been published in nearly every newspaper in the United States.
He has also authored or coauthored four books: Their Blood Cries Out, Am I Now Your Enemy for Telling You the Truth, Refocusing the Pro-Life Movement for Victory, and Abortion Free.
Troy serves on boards for a number of pro-life groups and was a founding board member for the Center for Medical Progress, the organization that made headlines with its hard-hitting videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s participation in the illegal trafficking of aborted baby parts.
Able to speak on almost any life or theological issue with clarity, Troy is a sought-after spokesperson for the pro-life cause. He offers a rare blend of theological wisdom and organizational strengths. His vision, expertise, and leadership have brought about a dramatic reduction in the number of abortions and abortion providers, which always translates into more lives saved.
Prior to 1995, Troy worked as an Electronic Engineer for Loral Aerospace and Ford Aerospace. He graduated from Maranatha Bible College and attended Whitefield Theological Seminary.
Troy’s other business interests include real estate development investments and rental properties. Troy’s hobbies are hunting, ranching, and gardening, and he has two Black Belts in Martial Arts. He enjoys living on a small hobby farm with his family in Kansas. Troy is father to five children and grandfather to seven beautiful grandchildren.
READ: How Troy Newman Rescued Operation Rescue
Sarah Neely has been a pro-life advocate for over two decades, working with many national pro-life groups along the way. Before joining Operation Rescue as a full-time Project Coordinator, she also spent thirteen years with CEC For Life, where she worked closely with clergy and local churches to equip, educate, and empower Christians to stand strong against abortion.
She has organized countless vigils, rallies, conferences, and leadership forums. She has helped develop pro-life training materials, and often served as a leader for youth and young adults in pro-life activism. Alongside other pro-life groups, Sarah has helped organize successful grassroots campaigns to shut down abortion clinics, especially in Alabama where she currently lives.
With over twenty years of experience in pro-life activism, Sarah has served as reporter, researcher, social media coordinator, event planner, executive assistant, and anything in between — whatever the preborn babies need on that particular day of the week. She has spoken at conferences, banquets, and pro-life trainings, always ready to proclaim the Gospel of Life.
Cheryl Sullenger has been involved in the pro-life movement since 1984. She founded and directed the California Life Coalition in San Diego and worked with Troy Newman and Operation Rescue to help close over a dozen abortion clinics in Southern California and influence over 40 abortionists to quit the abortion business. Her sidewalk counseling ministry saved over 2,500 lives.
In 2003, Sullenger relocated to Wichita, Kansas, where she served as Senior Vice President of Operation Rescue until her retirement in June 30, 2022. Sullenger conducted extensive research on abortionists around the nation. Her research and documentation has helped bring attention to the seedy underbelly of the abortion industry and has been instrumental in closing abortion clinics, launching investigations, and bringing disciplinary action and criminal prosecutions against abortionists around the country.
Sullenger is an accomplished writer and published author. She co-authored several books with Troy Newman, including Their Blood Cries Out and Abortion Free. Sullenger also authored The Trial of Kermit Gosnell based on her first-hand reporting from the courtroom of Gosnell’s 2013 murder trial
