Meet Our Board

J. Anthony Hertzler

Anthony and his wife Abigail have five children. The Hertzlers seek to build their lives around relationships with God and other people and to serve the oppressed and suffering both inside and outside the church. Anthony is a writer and marketer and works part time in construction. He served as a medical first responder and volunteer firefighter for eight years and currently serves as president of LifeRing Christian Ministries.

Anthony has a passion to see Jesus exalted in his church and dreams of seeing all churches well equipped to apply the Gospel to oppressive relationships with wisdom, justice, and mercy, reflecting God's heart toward victims and oppressors.

Rosanna Brubacker

Rosanna Brubacker became interested in domestic violence advocacy for descendants of Anabaptist people groups when her own search for advocacy led to getting more help outside the church rather than from church-offered ministries. She observed that pastors who wanted more information were hesitant to go to those outside the conservative culture for answers for fear of sacrificing two-kingdom theology. However, the churches seemed to lack necessary knowledge. The desire to help bring answers to abused people in conservative Anabaptist churches led to a personal life plan. To that end, she completed domestic violence advocacy training by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence and advocacy training by faith-based Focus Ministries and continues to add to her knowledge of abuse dynamics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Crisis Counseling at Liberty University and is pursuing a masters degree in Clinical Mental Health at Lancaster Bible College.

Elaine Nolt

Elaine Nolt is a domestic abuse survivor. About her marriage, she says "The first year was hard and things went downhill from there." She and her husband were blessed with 4 children during the 15 years they were together. Those years included many bruises, several broken bones, and hassling by uneducated ministry and family. After her husband landed in prison charged with attempted murder of his wife, Elaine and her children set about building a life with calmness, safety and peace in it. With the assistance of counselors they began learning how an emotionally healthy family unit functions. Friends moved them to Virginia from Pennsylvania three years later to get away from the threats of physical violence and more. The children are now grown, are Christians, and are all married to Christians. Elaine has been involved ever since her separation in helping other women who have trouble in their lives. God consistently brings women in need across her path. She is an avid reader, especially about abuse and various forms of it and about how to assist those in it in a Godly way. Elaine and her oldest son have a partnership LLC, where they raise produce, chickens, and beef organically and have a farm stand where she spends most of her time. They put in a commercial kitchen so they now have baked goods to sell and they just received the certification necessary to can and sell pickles and tomato sauce. The Lord has been good to the children and Elaine. One of her greatest joys is the 12 grandchildren who are literally spread around the world, eight in the county where she lives, one in Oregon and three in Cambodia.