Our Board of Directors

Kathie grew up in Chicago and attended Valparaiso University to obtain her bachelor’s degree in Nutrition. She then moved to New Orleans where she was a hospital registered dietitian at Charity Hospital and St. Charles General Hospital before getting into Sales and Marketing for a food service distribution company. With this job, she was able to combine her knowledge of nutrition and coupled it with a desire to teach sales personnel the idiosyncrasies of health care dietary needs. While there, she also obtained a Master’s Degree in Counseling. This led to a series of promotions to Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and ultimately Houston where she served various food service distributors. Her final job in this line of work was at Sysco Corporation where she was the Director of Health Care Sales.

Midlife, Kathie decided to go back to graduate school again and obtained another Master’s Degree, this time in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University. After graduation and a brief time of having her own business, she ultimately joined the Organizational Effectiveness team at Royal Dutch Shell. In this job, she consulted with leaders around the world and in her last assignment, led a team of global consultants in various refineries and chemical plants. She retired from Shell in 2014.

In retirement, Kathie has enjoyed a variety of hobbies including knitting, quilting, playing bridge, volunteering, teaching Bible Study at two of Houston’s largest churches, and mentoring young women. She loves gardening and parenting her indoor/outdoor cat, Little Kitty. She has the gifts of hospitality and encouragement and has a passion for the homeless and other underserved people groups. With her husband, Milton, she is the Co-founder of H&F Ministries and is pleased to serve the Lord in this capacity.

Marci Lasiter is a RN at Baylor Scott and White Healthcare System - Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas. She has worked for BSWH for 19 years. 

She currently serves as the Covid Vaccine Hub supervisor and Perinatal Outreach Coordinator. Marci adores fostering relationships and teaching staff at outlying hospitals, birth centers, patients in the community and other frontline workers. She first discovered her love of teaching and community health about 15 years ago when she was first asked to teach the Baylor Scott and White Healthcare System Perinatal Internship, a role she loves and continues today. She feels a personal mission to help decrease morbidity and mortality and is incredibly grateful for the amazing work family that is on this mission with her!

When not working at Baylor, Marci is very busy with 3 precious sons and an amazing husband. She also volunteers as kids ministry leader at her church, several pregnancy centers, teaches kids choir, serves on the PTA board, and the FFA parent organization.

Milton is a psychotherapist and founder of Hope & Freedom Counseling Services, as well as the CEO of Hope & Freedom Ministries. Previously he served as a pastor for twenty years, was president of a large foster care and adoption agency with offices throughout Texas, and also was the vice president for a group of church-related retirement communities.

He has written four professional books on addiction and one novel that deals with addiction. His hobbies include cooking, writing Western novels using the pen name of Roy Clinton (16 novels and counting), running, hiking, and traveling with his wife, Kathie.

One possible path to homelessness—and a story of one who experienced both Hope & Freedom.

Lost follows Clint Hazard, a modern-day cowboy who believes he was born 150 years too late. He loses his truck, his marriage, his son, his home, his friends, and faces the loss of job and a term in prison.

He struggles with habits that threaten to derail his life. His journey is aided by watching the change that takes place in his best friend who took the same journey about a year before him.

For a man with seemingly unlimited potential, Clint succeeds in making an absolute mess of his life. But he finds hope.

Clint Hazard got his life back on track. But for many of the people who live on the streets, they didn’t get the breaks Clint received or have a friend like Micah to lean on. They remain on the streets and are vulnerable to weather, hunger, and violence.

Reviews of Lost

“These tales are enlivened at every turn by the author’s obvious affection for today’s cowboy, 'a blend of renaissance man, pioneer, jack-of-all-trades, and good ole boy.’ He colorfully renders the atmosphere and details of ranch life, and although the author makes sure to closely link Clint’s personal story to broader recovery-philosophy generalities, he does so with a light touch that makes for smooth reading. This has the effect of humanizing Clint and grounding his story of personal discovery. A skillful combination of modern-day cowboy tale and substance-abuse parable.”

Kirkus Reviews

Other Reviews:

“…Roy Clinton explores the issue of addiction and recovery through a really thoughtful and entertaining western….”

“…a great help to anyone--especially an addict.” 

“Awesome book!”

“…a great read for anyone suffering from addiction or someone wanting to understand the internal struggles of addiction….”

“This book is a must read for anyone in addiction recovery….”