"R" Team
Ashley Miller - Founder & Executive Director
Beth Piercy - Assistant Director & Day Center Lead
Beth Piercy - Assistant Director & Day Center Lead
Ashley Miller founded R House Ministries in response to God’s call to walk alongside vulnerable women with compassion, dignity, and faith. Her leadership is rooted in relationship-centered care, trauma-informed practices, and the belief that true restoration happens when women are met where they are and loved without conditions.
Beth Piercy - Assistant Director & Day Center Lead
Beth Piercy - Assistant Director & Day Center Lead
Beth Piercy - Assistant Director & Day Center Lead
Beth Piercy oversees the daily operations of the R House Day Center, ensuring that women experience safety, consistency, and dignity-first care. She brings steady leadership, deep compassion, and practical support to the heart of R House Ministries.
Mendy Sturgill - Director of Development
Beth Piercy - Assistant Director & Day Center Lead
Mendy Sturgill leads fundraising, grants, donor partnerships, and strategic development for R House Ministries, focusing on building meaningful relationships with individuals, churches, and organizations who are committed to long-term, relational solutions for vulnerable women.
R House Executive Board
R House Executive Board
We are blessed to have a five-woman Executive Board providing authoritative oversight, prayer covering, and practical wisdom to the structure and daily operations of R House Ministries. Our current board members include Pastor Ashley Miller, Pastor Bonnie Wooten, Pastor Ruth Willis, Elise Jobe, and Lori Johnson.
A City of Support
R House Executive Board
R House Volunteer Team
R House Ministries is strengthened by partnerships and support throughout our city. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our mission, please don’t hesitate to contact us—we would be happy to hear from you.
R House Volunteer Team
R House Executive Board
R House Volunteer Team
R House Ministries utilizes many volunteers through its mission of Relief, Resource, Rescue, and Restoration. Amongst those ministries are: Meal Mom's (headed by Melisa Wolfe), Pen-Pal Prayer Intercessors (headed by Connie Martin), Boutique Preparers, Facility Caretakers, Day Center Attendants, and Street Outreach Team Members. Fill out the volunteer link below to get involved. Your time can change a life!
Monthly CHURCH Partnerships
Valley Rock Church
Freedom Church Cincinnati
Freedom Church Cincinnati
Valley Rock Church is a Christ centered, Holy Spirit empowered, thriving body of believers; fulfilling the great commission of Christ in the Dayton region.
Freedom Church Cincinnati
Freedom Church Cincinnati
Freedom Church Cincinnati
Freedom Church exists to follow the principle of Matthew 28:18-20 by making a lasting difference in your life, in our community, and in the world as a whole. It is our hearts’ desire to follow the Great Commission and share with people the one true hope in life, Jesus Christ, and lead others to become fully devoted followers of Christ. That is the driving purpose behind everything we do.
Newspring Church
Our mission is to lead ALL people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ
Our Culture Code…
We make everything about JESUS.
We LOVE people and HONOR one another.
We pursue GODLINESS.
We listen to the voice of the HOLY SPIRIT.
we seek to SAVE the lost and RESTORE the brokenhearted.
We do everything with EXCELLENCE and make things better.
We COMMUNICATE honestly, SOLVING CONFLICT quickly.
We GIVE GENEROUSLY and SERVE sacrificially.
We strive to BUILD God’s CHURCH.
We serve in JOY and have FUN.
Refuge Hill Church
Refuge Hill exists to connect people with Jesus in every area of life.
We desire to see people experience new life and embrace a new way.
What we seek is Christlike discipleship:
Intimacy
Identity
Imitation
https://www.refugehill.church/