“I am so glad I was there today. Thanks to you and Steve and Martin and the rest of the board for the good work you do.”—CA
“What a blessed time for me and my husband! Thank you for the hope and healing you've given to me and countless others who were pursued, used, and abused by spiritual leaders. It was definitely worth the drive and the vacation day we both took! :-)”—NY
“What an amazing day! Thank you all for sharing your time and energy! What a blessing you all are to us! Thank you with all my heart!”—IN
“Thank you to everyone who works at The Hope Of Survivors. The Hope & Healing Conference is a blessing!”—IN
“I so much appreciated the time we shared yesterday. I definitely came away much more clear on the line of abuse vs. adultery. I think this was one area that truly was torturing my heart… The seminar was very helpful…”—MI
“Thank you for coming, for your time, for the giving of yourselves.”—IN
“Thank you to all of you who helped and presented!! I feel refreshed, blessed, encouraged and HOPE-ful!”—MI
“Great! Real stories bring others into understanding on so many levels. I feel balanced.”—WA
“Everything was great. Thank you for your ministry! We both have been blessed in coming!”—NY
“All information was very helpful. Being a husband, I could really connect with Steve’s story.”—NY
“Amazing weekend for us! God again did more than we asked or imagined....”—NY
“We were both pleasantly surprised at how encouraging it was, not depressing, but a blessing! It was so great meeting everyone! Although it is unfortunate we experienced clergy sexual abuse, we are extremely fortunate to find hope and healing in our God! Thank you THOS for this conference and for speaking the truth!”—NY
“I appreciated the conference a great deal. I especially liked hearing the male pastors say what happens was wrong. That’s the first time I’ve actually heard someone in that position say that flat out. It’s not the same thing as saying, “we’ll deal with it,” or moving someone to a different congregation. It was also interesting to me to hear from so many stories that, although our individual circumstances were different, the outcomes were pretty much the same—how we were affected by it, people we thought were our friends dumping us, etc. Thank you for your work.”—MN
“Thank you for a conference full of hope, support and Christ-centeredness. It was indeed a blessing for us.”—MN
“Thanks Samantha & Steve for everything! I really mean that.”—Survivor
“Everything was great!”—CA
“Thank you so much. I feel this has been monumental in my healing.”—Survivor
“You have no idea how much this conference and the ministry of The Hope of Survivors has helped us. You’ll never know this side of Heaven. Thank you.”—MO
“First of all, THANK
YOU!!!!! for coming here and for spending the time to share and educate,
counsel and bring
healing. You and your husband
are awesome for doing what you do.”—S., Michigan
“Your program was
excellent and I learned a lot.”—C.,
Michigan
“Good conference!”—F.,
Ohio
“It was our pleasure
to have attended the Hope & Healing conference.
We believe it was an essential step in our healing journey...A huge leap
forward in our healing...sharing with others that know and feel our pain.
Thanks again for your unselfish, love-filled ministry. WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND
IT TO EVERYBODY—husbands and wives—to all victims of pastoral/clergy
sexual abuse. You two are true children of God. Your rewards in the Kingdom
are awaiting you.”—M. & D., Ohio
“Thanks to both of
you, Samantha and Steve, for providing me the opportunity to attend your
Hope & Healing Conference in Ohio. It was
the first time I'd been around anyone who had gone through the experience
of clergy sexual abuse as I had and it was bittersweet for me. I thank you
for your compassion and your true love that you showed all of us. I applaud
you for your willingness to address this issue in a forthright manner and
for allowing God to guide you in providing this much-needed ministry. I
also want to thank you for the support you have given and continue to give
me. It was a true blessing being around everyone and sharing our experiences.
I also want to thank you for letting your emotions flow when speaking of
your own experience. My hope is to one day join your ministry and provide
hope to others, as you have, through my own experience, and I pray to God
to one day bring an end to CSA through all of us in speaking out, standing
up, educating churches and congregations, and for all to do as God would
have us do to clean up what needs to be cleaned up so that churches may
be a truly safe haven…what God had intended. God Bless You and all
in the continued healing journey.”—K., Virginia
“Great job! Your ministry
is of God. Thanks! 1 John 3:16-24.”—M.,
Ohio
“You both did a wonderful
job. Your message of hope, understanding, compassion and healing was very
well demonstrated and
received. I feel very
encouraged. Thank you for your ministry and I will pray for its continued
success.”—D., Ohio
“The things shared
today are things I need to hear often. I still struggle with transferring
knowledge from my head to my heart.”—V.,
Ohio
