On July 28, 2023, the Board of Directors and family of All God’s Children International (AGCI) lost Angela Morrill—a Director for over 6 years; a fellow advocate for family preservation and orphan care; a wife and mother of 3; an exceptional legal and detail-oriented mind; a servant and sister in Christ; a friend.
Angela became a friend and supporter of AGCI through the adoption of her daughter, Isabella, from Ethiopia. Over the years, Angela made many trips to Ethiopia and continued to advocate for, and support, the work of AGCI there and around the world. She served on the Board of Directors as Secretary and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Her attention to detail and her uncanny memory challenged, humored, and made her fellow Directors better at the job to which God called us all.
No one loved governance like Angela! She was organized even to the point of having calendar reminders for our quarterly N&CG meetings scheduled for the remainder of this year—I got a lump in my throat when it popped up on my calendar last week. And then I smiled, with tears welling up, because as I was thinking, “I have to figure out what is next on our list”, I saw that she had left an agenda for us—a path to follow as we continue in the work that she was committed to for the Kingdom of God and children around the world. Of course she did. That was how thoroughly she did things.
Her smile lit up the room and her thoughtfulness about the work we were doing and the children and families we are doing it for was inspiring to all. Our next meeting will have a palpable absence as we go forward with the work God has called us to and we press on in the spirit that Angela herself would have wanted.
She is with our Savior, and she is living in the hope that we all cling to. She is seeing her work completed and has heard our Father say, “well done, good and faithful servant.” Her earthly absence will be grieved by all of us; but she leaves a legacy for her family and for her AGCI family—a legacy of friendship, love, passion, and servanthood. My life will always have a little piece of Angela in it and I will never read and edit a legal or policy document without remembering our many hours of conversations about words and punctuation and smiling. We are grateful to have called her friend, colleague, and fellow sojourner.
Her family requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the AGCI Ethiopia program in her memory.
