Our Story
It began with one question: “What are their names?”
In 2015, while driving her father to an appointment, Polly Lunetto heard a near-audible voice from within ask her that question. It was the beginning of a journey to confront a loss she had carried in silence for decades — and the seed of a ministry that now walks with parents across the country toward hope, healing, and forgiveness.
The Founder
Polly Lunetto — artist, author, and fellow traveler.
Polly Lunetto is an artist, author, and founder whose creative work comes from a heart to strengthen, encourage, and comfort others. An artist first — long before becoming an author or establishing the organization she leads today — she holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and is an ordained minister.
In 2023 she published A Choice to Remember — The First Step in Your Post-Abortion Healing Journey, the decision she describes as her “coming out” party: sharing publicly, for the first time, the story of the two abortions she had kept secret for more than thirty years. The following year, what is now The Tribute Project began simply as an art challenge to herself — a way to bring awareness to life in the womb and the reality of abortion’s aftermath, something she had come to understand through her own experience.
Within a few short months, Polly recognized this was more than an art project. She sensed the Lord calling her to the mission field of after-abortion healing, and she has been pursuing that work ever since. As she says of her work at the easel: “I paint what’s hidden — and bring it to the surface.”
From a Question to a Ministry
What one yes has become.
The question Polly heard in 2015 became years of quiet obedience: her own healing, then a book, then a canvas, then another. On Mother’s Day 2024, the ministry officially launched — and the Tribute Project began receiving letters from parents that June.
Since then, 33 participants from 15 states and Canada have written letters to their children in heaven, and 46 unborn lives have been acknowledged, honored, and remembered — each one with a name, a letter, and a painting. The Tribute & Aftermath Memorial Art Exhibit now travels to churches and events, carrying those stories forward so that others can find the same road home. Acknowledging loss. Restoring hope. Advocating for life.
What We Stand On
Strengthen. Encourage. Comfort.
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Strengthen
Equipping people with tools — creative, spiritual, and practical — to face what they have carried alone.
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Encourage
Meeting every story without judgment, and walking alongside it toward hope.
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Comfort
Creating safe, confidential space for grief to become the start of healing.
Board of Directors
Leadership you can look in the eye.
We believe you should be able to see exactly who leads this ministry — their names, their credentials, and their hearts — all in one place.
Polly Lunetto
Founder & President
Mixed-media artist, author, and founder. M.A. in Counseling Psychology; ordained chaplain; nearly three decades of experience working intimately with women. Author of A Choice to Remember (2023).
Frank Lunetto
Treasurer & Director · Men’s Abortion Recovery Leader
Thirty years in the corporate world; founder and CEO of ISG, serving the hospitality and healthcare industries. While helping with Polly’s book, Frank faced his own past abortion experience — guilt he had carried for more than thirty years — and now works with men, individually and in small groups, who are struggling with the same hidden weight.
Dr. Catherine Toon
Secretary & Director
Board-certified Internal Medicine MD who transitioned from medicine to ministry. Founder of Imprint, LLC and Catherine Toon Ministries; instructor at Global Grace Seminary; author of Marked by Love; host of the podcast Perspectives with Catherine Toon.
Bonnie Duell
Director
Co-founder of Dave Duell Ministries and Faith Ministries Denver Church, which she still pastors with her family. Honorary doctorate from Bethel Christian College. With her late husband Dave she published nine books and ministered in more than seventy-seven nations; co-founded Women Embracing the World, which she led for ten years.
Lyrice Marsh
Director & Chaplain
A compassionate spiritual leader with over 30 years of experience. B.A., Concordia Teachers College; M.Div., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Served as a Navy Chaplain, supported veterans at VA Medical Centers, and serves as Per Diem Chaplain at University of Chicago Medical Center. Founder of Her Comfort in the Storm.
Financial Accountability
The Tribute Project is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 99-2764751. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. We invite you to review our standing directly.