Bethesda Home For Girls: Ongoing Investigation

Staff & Associates
The woman of Bethesda have become warriors for change in the fight against the Troubled Teen Industry.
Former Employees
Sam & Deborah Gerhardt
Debby Gerhardt is the daughter of Bethesda owners, Betty (Graves) and Bob Wills. Sam and Deborah married on December 20th, 1975
Samuel Gerhardt studied at Tennessee Temple University and at Carolina University of Theology. He is currently working at Bible Believer’s Cowboy Ministries in Big South Fork, TN.
Sam became the face of the Wills’ operations, by 2002 he was an administrator of the Mountain Park Baptist Church and Boarding Academy and was the secretary of the Missouri Association of Christian Child Care Agencies.
Cristi Linn Lippert
Cristi Linn Lippert married Robert O’Briant on the steps of the Bethesda Home dorms. She followed the Wills and Gerhardts to Missouri and worked at Mountain Park Academy, and later Palm Lane Academy in Florida.
Now, Cristi is Cristi Linn Wilson and resides in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She is married to David Wilson.
Elizabeth Samford
Elizabeth Samford Prye has worked at Jubilee Home for Ladies in Corpus Christi, Texas as well as the Bethesda Home for Girls in Mississippi. She has returned to live in Texas.