About Us
Mountain Area Pregnancy Services (MAPS), previously Asheville Pregnancy Support Services, provides compassionate care to women and men dealing with issues surrounding an at risk pregnancy. Our client advocates are specially trained to deal with these distinctive problems for those facing this issue at their POINT OF CRISIS. The impact goes beyond just the man and the woman but can extend to family, friends and others. An unplanned pregnancy is often an unwanted pregnancy and those involved may feel as if abortion is the only choice. MAPS exists to provide women and men accurate information on their choices in a compassionate environment.
Our parenting education program supports parents of all ages, including teenagers, with the necessary information and tools to flourish in relationships, life-skills, and parenting.
Our Mission
To be a relevant Christ-centered outreach ministry partnering with the churches of WNC by caring for, counseling and educating women and men regarding, or impacted by, and at risk pregnancy.
Leadership Team
Kristi Brown - Executive Director
Master of Arts in Christian Education (Concentration in Leadership/Administration) - New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Master in Business Administration - Pfeiffer University
Master in Health Administration - Pfeiffer University
Bachelor of Arts in German - Davidson College
Experience: 24 years in non-profit healthcare leadership with 3 years experience in for-profit sales and marketing.
"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." Exodus 14:14
Ingrid Phillips, RN, - Director of Clinical Services
Registered Nurse - University of South Carolina Upstate
Experience: 28 years of nursing experience.
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:13-16
Lauren Roberts - Development Director
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Business Management) - Montreat College
Masters of Science in Management and Leadership - Montreat College
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it Springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19
Donald Chamberlain - Finance Manager
LeTourneau University - Masters Business Administration (MBA)
Experience: 35+ years in accounting and business administration
"Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household." Ephesians 2:12-13,19
Becky Hymel, RN - Eva's Footprint Nurse Navigator
Bachelor of Arts in Communication Art - Nicholls State University
Registered Nurse - Blue Ridge Community College
Experience: 20 years of nursing experience
20 years as a Certified Childbirth Educator
"I believe God called me into nursing. The journey that led me to MAPS, first as a volunteer, has been for His ultimate purpose in my life...Eva's Footprints. If my unworthy footprints matter, so do the lives of all He created."
Nancy Akin - Abortion Recovery Director
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy
Licensed Occupational Therapist
Birth Labor Doula, DONA International
Center Director for Palouse Care Network & Wish Medical
“Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.” Luke 7:47
Meribeth Sterrett - Client Services Director
Medical Lab Technologist Degree -Indian River State College
A.S. degree – Indian River State College
20+ years experience working with volunteers in children’s ministries.
“8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
Parris Finley - Outreach Coordinator
Native of Asheville
Experience:
1 year at a nonprofit
18 years as an Administrative Assistant
5 years as a CNA/Med Tech
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength." Mark 12:30
Cindy Van Gorder - Client and Administrative Coordinator
Undergraduate work at LaRoche College & West Virginia University
Licensed Discipleship Counselor with Grace Life International
30+ years of Customer Care & Service
My passion: Empowering women to walk in the Truth and Freedom of their God-given identity.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Sandy Mahar - Grief Counselor
Bachelor of Science in Education, Auburn University
LCSW, East Carolina University
Counseling experience in: inpatient, outpatient, adolescent residential and ministry settings
CRU staff at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
CMDA, Marriage Commission
MTW, served as family interns at Kilkenny Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 2016
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." Matthew 6:33