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Liz Preston Doyle has traveled the globe since graduating from Centerville High School in 1972.

Doyle, the daughter of Ann Preston of Greenville and former Centerville School District superintendent Richard Preston, now deceased, embarked on a career of Christian ministry only two days after her graduation.

"Northern Ireland was the most dangerous place in the world I could think of, and God led me to bring the peace of Jesus there," said Doyle, who can be seen on BBC documentary footage standing on a traffic island at a dangerous Belfast intersection preaching and strumming her guitar while singing Christian songs.

"In the crowd, was the man who would become my husband, Syd Doyle."

Liz Preston Doyle's family experienced a religious conversion and began attending the Centerville First Baptist Church, now called the Cross Point Vineyard, in 1968 after seeing the effects of a healing that Ann Preston experienced at the church following a difficult time in her life.

Doyle's neighbor, Pat Riner Howard, invited Preston to attend the church.

"It was a remarkable healing," said Doyle, who now lives in Michigan, but recently gave a presentation at the Cross Point Vineyard. "After that, we all independently gave our hearts to Christ."

After meeting Syd Doyle on the streets of Belfast, Ireland, Liz Preston Doyle followed him to Glasgow, Scotland, and began to attend the Bible college where Syd was studying.

After graduating, the couple married and traveled to England, where they started three churches.

"There were no progressive churches meeting people's social needs," said Doyle, who worked with people who were illiterate, or involved in drugs or motorcycle gangs. "My husband was beaten up, but our church became the biggest one there."

In addition to starting churches and evangelizing for "Nation's Light Ministries," which was founded by the Doyles, Liz Doyle started Releasing Daughters of the Last Days, an organization formed to advocate for women around the world.

"I go to other countries to teach things and to meet other Christian women and help them to reach out to people around them in whatever way they can," said Doyle, who has two grown children and grandchildren. "We encourage them and train them to win their nations to Jesus Christ through the love of God."

Doyle has faced danger, like the time in 2006 when she addressed a crowd of 70,000 at an evangelical event in Pakistan, and again when she crossed political lines in Sri Lanka from an area occupied by the Tamil Tigers to that controlled by the government.

"I'm on the front lines," said Doyle, whose husband accompanies her to give his own presentations.

"I get to meet all kinds of people. It's certainly not boring."