Stories Of Hope - Bethesda Workshops

Erica Vaughn

As Bethesda Workshops’ Marketing Director, Erica helps share the hope and healing available at Bethesda. Her work includes creating our messages shared through email, social media, and on our website.

She brings experience in marketing several small businesses and non-profit organizations in the Southeast. Erica earned her BS in Business Administration in Marketing from Appalachian State University and completed a certificate program in Digital Marketing with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She and her husband have three kids. She enjoys traveling with her family to the Carolina beaches and mountains.

Shelly Gibbs

Shelly Gibbs is a nonprofit consultant and business coach who partners with organizations and individuals navigating their next season of growth. Her work centers on three pillars: strategy, systems, and staff — the building blocks of sustainable, thriving organizations.

Before launching her practice, Shelly served as Executive Director of NorthState Care Clinic and Director of Moral Revolution, two nonprofits dedicated to equipping and empowering people to live as their best, truest selves.

Shelly brings a whole-person perspective to her work, grounded in the belief that we are tri-polar beings — body, soul, and spirit — and that lasting transformation requires all three. She partners with people in their pursuit of freedom, peace, and abundance, holding firmly to this: we are better together.

She holds a BA in Liberal Studies and a Multi-Subject Teaching Credential from Simpson University. A Northern California native, she's now rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

Melissa Haas

Melissa Haas serves as the spouse-supporting therapist at HopeQuest. Melissa has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and is a licensed professional counselor. Passionate about spiritual community, healthy marriages, and intimacy with God, Melissa regularly facilitates small groups and teaches and speaks on these topics in order to help the Body of Christ grow relationally with God and each other.

Melissa and her husband Troy have been married for thirty-four years and have three adult children and one grand-daughter. They have devoted their lives to helping others find hope and freedom from addiction, giving back the comfort they have received on their own journeys of healing.

Daniel Kiser

Daniel is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in the state of Tennessee. He has earned master degrees in Marital and Family Therapy and Biblical Studies from Lee University. Throughout his clinical experience, he has demonstrated clinical effectiveness working with adolescents and families through utilization of evidenced based approaches in his roles as a counselor, clinical supervisor, and behavioral health manager. He has worked with adolescents with severe suicidal behaviors, anxiety, depression, aggression, and high-risk behaviors in residential treatment. Addressed the relational distress within the parent-child relationship created by their child’s disruptive behavioral responses, helping parents through their despair, resentment, and disillusionment. He is invested in the integration of theology and psychology, believing that activation of human longings, desires, and vitality for life is based upon both disciplines. Aside from professional development, he also has experienced the profound impact of a transformative therapeutic relationship that provides accountability, exploration of underlying wounds and thoughts, and compassionate care. Counseling is oriented towards reclaiming, rediscovering, and restoring vital aspects of human development and he is eager to help others in their process as well.

A Story of Hope

Former Workshop Participant

Former Healing for Women Participant I didn’t know I had a sexual addiction. I confessed 13 years of secret sexual sin to my husband, promising I was done… and then I couldn’t stop. Even after ending the affair and stopping pornography, I still used sex and masturbation to cope. That’s when I knew I couldn’t fix this problem on my own. My breaking point came on August 30, 2024. After a second confession, overwrought by my shame, I left home intending to end my life. But God intervened through a phone call with my best friend. She reminded me there…

Former Workshop Participant

Former Healing for Women Participant Bethesda has a special place in my heart. I was a sex and love addict for 30 years and I am so thankful Bethesda started my journey of recovery, and I have been off my bottom lines for 2 years 4 months! Praise God! My addiction started at a very young age. I was conceived out of an affair and my mom wanted to have an abortion. My biological father never claimed me as his child. The man my mom was married to claimed me as his child and put his name on my birth…

Former Workshop Participant

Former Healing for Men Participant I can remember so vividly while hanging out with my dad as a young boy the declaration, "Don't ever touch this stuff". You see my dad was in the throes of alcohol addiction for all my childhood and teenage years. On top of that, he would be diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma when I was 13 and pass away when I was 20. For those 7 years, I watched as my dad became frail and sick. My mom had to perform both roles as a parent a great deal of the time. This was overwhelming for…

Former Workshop Participant

From A Healing for Men Participant March 2021 was one of the hardest times of my life. I lost my mother, the one person that supported me from the beginning. She had been by rock because when I was 6 years old, I lost my dad in a fatal accident. I had no idea how her passing would impact me. Soon after her funeral, I fell into depression. I didn’t know how to grieve her death or let her go. I was in big trouble emotionally. After months of wrestling with all the loss, for the first time in my…

Erica Vaughn

Shelly Gibbs

Melissa Haas

Daniel Kiser

A Story of Hope

Former Workshop Participant

A Story of Hope

Former Workshop Participant

A Story of Hope

Former Workshop Participant

A Story of Hope

Former Workshop Participant

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