The Elizabeth Mason Marshall Award

John relates how, “in Gods providence and loving provision, a POP Spiritual Care Volunteer visited us in Houston Methodist Hospital and regular visits quickly became a moving time and a powerfully healing part of coping and enduring the regimen of therapy. Creating a spiritual community, tailored to our faith tradition, was what we needed and it was a POP Spiritual Care Volunteer who heightened our awareness that God indeed, faithfully provides the brilliance of His love right in the midst of the darkest valleys.”

Mrs. Elizabeth Mason Marshall was a devoted daughter, sister, wife and mother of two children. Although starting life in Houston with her parents, Carrington and Dorothy Trout Mason and sister, Mary Clara Mason, Betsy and her husband John studied at The University of Texas where they met and remained until John finished law school, then returned to Houston to raise and encourage their two children to find their unique pathways of serving God. Betsy believed in the redeeming grace of Jesus Christ from a young age and served Him with gratitude to the end of her life. As a teacher, she enhanced the lives of many children and found time to be a committed Bible study leader for women of all ages.

The Elizabeth Mason Marshall Award recognizes POP Spiritual Care Volunteers who exhibit a faithful countenance of humility and servant-hearted empathy while offering spiritual community and prayer for God’s people who are sick and suffering the hospital. It is all the more meaningful that Mr. Marshall created this avenue of celebrating qualities considered to be exemplary, and yet found most supremely in the humble.