Life Pacific University is honored to announce Dr. Marion Ingegneri as the recipient of the 2026 Kingdom Leadership Alumnus of the Year Award. This recognition honors an alumnus who demonstrates faithful, Kingdom-focused leadership through service in the Church, the marketplace, and the broader community. Through decades of influence, Dr. Marion has led with wisdom, integrity, and a deep commitment to advancing God’s Kingdom, equipping and empowering leaders across every sphere she has been called to serve. The award will be presented at the 2026 Alumni and Friends Lunch on May 26, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas.

LPU President Dr. Angie Richey ’97 shares, “Marion Ingegneri lives a life that multiplies. Through church planting and faithful leadership, she has helped establish communities of faith while empowering thousands of women around the world to step into their God-given calling. She deeply believes in the power of education to equip leaders for lasting impact. Marion steps up, stands in the gap, and champions women, leaders, and causes close to God’s heart. She goes the distance with courage and conviction and shows no signs of slowing down.”

LPU Professor Emeritus Dr. Remi Lawanson says, “Dr. Marion Ingegneri is a legendary leader, who has mentored many emerging leaders, especially women, into leadership. She ignited a women-in-leadership movement that has accelerated leadership development, breaking through some of the systemic barriers and thereby facilitating bridging the gender gap in leadership.”

LPU Trustee Pastor JJ Vercellono ’22, Co-Pastor of Real Life Church (Laconia, NH), shares, “Marion Ingegneri is a champion of women of all ages and diversity, but there is a unique gift to to challenge and embolden women in ministry to lead with passion and prophetic purpose for the kingdom assignment on their lives. She has given her life to see women of God embrace their anointing and and call with confidence and eternal commitment.”

Family and Faith

Dr. Marion’s life was radically transformed when she came to Christ in 1971. That decision to follow Jesus, along with her marriage to Joe Ingegneri, marked the beginning of a lifelong journey of faith and ministry. According to Marion, Joe, also an ordained Foursquare minister, is one of her biggest supporters in ministry. As first-generation believers, the couple often says they had to write their own handbook on “How to blend an East Coast Italian with a West Coast Mexican,” a journey marked by faith, growth, and deep commitment. Together they have three married children (Aaron, Carrie, and Scott) and ten grandchildren – a family deeply dedicated to Christ, their greatest treasure in life, and the central legacy they are building for generations to come.

Called to Lead Leaders

In 1980, Dr. Marion received a defining and deeply personal divine calling when someone prophetically spoke over her life, declaring that she was “pregnant with women leaders.” Dr. Marion prayerfully pondered this prophetic moment which she had no context to define, and her response became the posture that would shape her life and ministry: “Be it unto me according to Your will” (Luke 1:38).

That moment became a cornerstone of her calling. Over the decades, it has unfolded into a clear and powerful mandate to raise, equip, and release women leaders into their God-given assignments.

Within eight years of the prophetic word, Dr. Marion became one of the first three women ordained in her church, an early fulfillment of what God had spoken. Today the prophetic word continues to be fulfilled through her global leadership, mentoring, and empowering of countless women to lead with confidence, conviction, and Holy Spirit authority.

FMI Worker Supervisor Kihā Pimental affirms, “Dr. Marion Ingegneri is a visionary local and global leader whose unwavering commitment, especially to empowering women in ministry, has profoundly shaped and advanced our movement. ‘Kingdom Leadership’ is a fitting description of her life and work, and a title richly deserved.”

Connecting Life and LIFE

Dr. Marion at the Sea of Galilee.

Dr. Marion credits her studies at Life Pacific University with playing a significant role in strengthening both her theological foundation and leadership framework. Strengthening and reinforcing her calling to be a “credible voice,” her time at LPU continues to bear fruit in her work today, influencing the leaders she equips and the global impact of her ministry. and refining her ability to integrate Spirit-led leadership with strategic thinking.

A lifelong learner, Dr. Marion sees the milestone of earning her Master of Arts in Strategic Leadership as not only an academic enrichment, but also a provision of practical tools that have shaped the way she leads, mentors, and develops others.

Dr. Marion graduated in 2015 from LIFE Pacific College with a Master of Arts in Strategic Leadership, and her article, “Foursquare Pentecostal Heritage: How Does it Relate to Women in Ministry Leadership?” is published in the January 2018 Quadrum Journal of the Foursquare Scholars Fellowship.

Academia and Advancing the Kingdom

In 2019, Dr. Marion was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in theology from Life Point Christian University (LPCU) in Phoenix, Arizona. She is also a certified coach through LIFE Forming Leadership Coaching having been trained by Founder Dr. Joseph Umidi of Regent University. Dr. Marion is also a certified trainer with the Foundation of Faith, Family & Friends, training and developing leaders on the message of biblical gift ministry, and she currently teaches at Life Pacific University, Life Point Christian University, and Solid Lives Training Center.

Activating Others

Dr. Marion is a visionary leader, mentor, prophetic voice, and strategist who equips leaders to walk in clarity, purpose, and Spirit-led authority. As the founding pastor of Grace North Church (Phoenix, AZ). In her 18 years of service to Grace North Church, she determined to see “Jesus established in people, regions, and cultures by a community of sent ones.”

Grace North Church grew from 6 people in her front room, into a network of churches with three physical locations and five congregations. In October of 2021, Dr. Marion completed her service to Grace North Church, in order to focus full-time on leaders nationally and globally.

Founder of Ministry Leader Network (MLN), Dr. Marion leads key initiatives, including the Essential Conference for Women, which has been equipping leaders for two decades, as well as the Women in Ministry Leadership (WIML) Cohorts, seven-month intensives designed to catapult and network female leaders to higher missional purposes. For the last decade, WIML has effectively raised, equipped, and connected leaders for lasting Kingdom impact. The concepts have been mobilized across multiple regions in the United States and include ministry for men and worship leaders, rendering both national and global impact.

In September 2025, Dr. Marion was appointed Global Director for the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (DPPJ), As Global Director, she has the honor of partnering with Eagles’ Wings and its founding leader Bishop Robert Stearns, in a role that reflects her leadership and deep commitment to mobilizing prayer globally.

Dr. Marion’s journey has been marked by a consistent “yes” to the Holy Spirit, a dedication to hear and execute what the Lord is saying. Her leadership encourages national and global impact, extending across the U.S. and internationally to Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Europe, Israel, and South Africa. What began as a personal call has unfolded into a global mandate to raise leaders who will influence ministry, marketplace, and culture for the Kingdom of God.

Publishing and Producing

A newer expression of Ministry Leader Network is MLN Publishing, a platform that publishes, develops, and connects authors within a growing leadership network.

Dr. Marion is the author of Choose Life: Unlocking Generational Blessings by Making Spirit-Empowered Decisions that Align with Biblical Principles, which reflects the core of her life and leadership, calling individuals to live with intentionality and alignment with God’s truth. Rooted in the Deuteronomy 30:19 call to “Choose Life,” this message has become a defining theme of her ministry.

Dr. Marion is also the co-author of a devotional book entitled, What Might We Imagine? Her  newest book, a collaborative effort entitled Leading Clean, is expected to be released soon. She is also the author, producer, and primary presenter of a video series entitled, Unlocking the Gifts in You.

Dr. Marion with Dr. Billy Wilson, President of ORU, who wrote the forward of Choose Life.

At the core of Dr. Marion’s leadership is a deep dependence on the Holy Spirit and a consistent obedience to God’s direction. She leads with both spiritual authority and practical wisdom, modeling a leadership rooted in humility, vision, and obedience. Her legacy is seen in the lives of the leaders she has raised, many of whom are now leading in ministry, marketplace, and culture, extending Kingdom influence far beyond what one person could accomplish alone.

While recognized as a respected leader and visionary, Marion has an interesting habit: she always carries an apron in her suitcase. It serves as a personal symbol that she is, above all, a servant of the Lord. It’s a reality those around her see characterized in moments when she shows up because “presence matters,” and in each thoughtful pause to greet or hug the person standing in the doorway, simply because it’s an opportune moment to extend grace and Kingdom love.

Life Pacific University is honored to celebrate Dr. Marion Ingegneri as the 2026 Kingdom Leadership Alumnus of the Year, recognizing her enduring investment in raising, equipping, and releasing leaders who advance God’s Kingdom across generations and contexts. Please join us in honoring Dr. Marion at the 2026 Alumni and Friends Lunch on May 26, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas.

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