Beth's Story

Ever since Beth can remember, her mom and dad worked hard and loved her deeply. But some situations they just couldn’t control … like when she went to a friend’s house as a kindergartner and found her friend’s mom dead … or when she moved to a new grade school and her new best friend died of cancer.

Those traumatic experiences shaped the rest of Beth’s childhood and gripped her with fear of death. Feelings of anxiety tortured her.

Despite her mom and dad’s careful parenting, Beth was exposed from a very early age to alcohol and even tried cocaine before attending high school.

Once Beth went off to college, she was drinking all the time. At a party, she took a pill that was laced with something dangerous. The next day, she woke up hearing voices and spiraled into a mental health crisis.

Over the next three years, Beth lost everything.

She dropped out of college. She couldn’t keep jobs. She was in and out of jail. She even tried to take her life three separate times.

Beth spent so much time in hospitals, she felt hopeless. The spiritual battle raged in her mind, and she was literally trying to die just to find relief … but God saw her, loved her and had a plan for her.

At the urging of her grandmother, Beth’s childhood pastor visited her in the hospital. He gave her the number of a local program in Texas, but they didn’t have any room. So, they gave her the number of Hoving Home.

Thirty years ago this past January, Beth’s church bought her a one-way ticket to Garrison, New York.

At Hoving Home, Jesus took hold of Beth’s life, healed her mind, and saved her soul. She was freed from the power of addiction and got her thoughts back, thanks to the mighty Word of God.

God never gave up on Beth. Neither did the community at Hoving Home!

Beth knows from personal experience that Hoving Home is special. Thanks to John Benton, Hoving Home’s founder, believing in Beth and her gifts, she now serves as President & CEO, three decades after her own recovery, helping women start their own path of healing with a seedling of hope.

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