Meet Our Leadership Team

Sue is the Founder of Healing Hearts Ministries International, serving as Executive Director for its first 35 years. She continues to serve as Board Member and a key spokesperson.

Healing Hearts Ministries was birthed from Sue’s personal experience with an abortion at the age of 18 and all of the emotional and physical complications that followed. In 1982, she experienced healing from her abortion through Jesus Christ and felt led to comfort other women who have experienced the same trauma. Using the Bible as a foundation, she has counseled women since 1984 and is the author of three Bible studies that have ministered to women, men, and youth across the United States and around the world. Her story has been shared with thousands over radio, television, at women’s conferences, and in churches across the United States. Her radio show was broadcast on KGNW in Seattle, Washington for six years.

Sue married Gary Liljenberg in 1984 and is the stepmother to his three sons, Tim, Tom, and Mark and a proud grandmother of three granddaughters, Emma, Malia and Mikayla. Sue is a former Boeing employee and her husband retired from Boeing after 45 years of service.

Allan Miller serves as Executive Director of Healing Hearts Ministries International, where he leads a team of more than 170 volunteer counselors, supervisors, and trainers across the U.S., Canada, and beyond.

Allan’s journey to this role has been marked by a lifelong passion for creative storytelling and the transforming power of God’s Word. A graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle, he spent 20 years as an entrepreneur in the multimedia industry alongside his brother, Chris, producing books and visual projects that helped bring biblical truth to life. His roots in ministry run deep—his grandparents were missionaries to Alaska, and his mother operated a Christian bookstore and church outreach ministry where Allan first developed a love for Scripture.

Seeing God as the greatest storywriter, Allan is grateful to see how the Lord has directed his steps, bringing him to such a time and place to serve alongside the Christ-centered servants of this ministry. Multiple overseas mission trips have also helped shape his worldview and deepen his love for sharing the gospel across cultures.

Since joining Healing Hearts in 2014, he has served in various support roles which have helped shape the ministry’s communications, training, and vision for growth.

Allan and his wife, Sarah, live in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Married for 25 years, they have two adult sons and a high school daughter, and are enjoying this “nearly empty-nest” season of life, mentoring their children and encouraging others toward gospel-centered transformation.

(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington & Wyoming)

Teresa Rinker has a passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ and bringing His healing, transforming, saving message to others. She has enjoyed serving with Healing Hearts since she herself experienced healing as a client going through one of the first Healing Hearts Bible study groups in 1985. Teresa’s life and marriage were transformed by the love of Jesus and the Word of God as it bound up her own broken heart and life. In addition to her work with Healing Hearts, Teresa loves teaching women’s Bible Study as well as weekend retreats. Seeing women set free from sin and self, to love and be loved, is her passion and joy! She and Scott have been married since 1977 and are the parents of three grown children and twelve precious grandchildren whom they adore.

(Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada & Utah.)
She is also the Healing Hearts Ambassador to Uganda & South Africa)

Cathy was introduced to Healing Hearts Ministries while in the midst of a marital crisis caused by sin. It was during this season that she was counseled to allow the Lord to unbury the sins of her past as well as the sins of others, so that she could be washed clean of her guilt and shame. With trepidation, Cathy proceeded through the Healing Hearts Bible Studies and discovered that the Lord's Word truly is filled with the inseparable combination of grace and truth. She found the Lord's forgiveness for ALL of her sins, even her grievous choice to have an abortion. In addition, she came to understand the freedom gifted to her and how to live in the fullness of Jesus Christ.

As a result of His redemption, restoration, and freedom, Cathy was able to extend to her husband the same grace, mercy, and forgiveness she received from Christ Jesus. It was during this season of suffering and joy that the Lord created a passion in Cathy for women who have been hurt and broken by the effects of sin. She has been leading group studies, doing e-ministry, counseling one-on-one, and mentoring younger women since 2008. Her heart's desire is to comfort others in any trouble with the same comfort she has received from God.

Cathy's love for the Lord and His Word continues to flourish as she witnesses His redemption in the lives of many broken women and marriages. She continues to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord through Bible studies, ongoing Biblical counselor training, and the counselor certification process. Today, Cathy gives all the glory to God that her marriage is now built on the foundation of God's Word, and she and John will soon celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Cathy loves to spend time with her two adult daughters; she enjoys traveling wherever and whenever, and loves sharing food and fellowship with others.

(Canada, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota & Nebraska)

Julie was in a prison of shame over her abortion for 13 years until she was freed by God’s Word though Healing Hearts in 2000. For the past twenty years, she has been involved with Healing Hearts as a group leader, Minnesota State Director and Regional Director for the Mid-North Region. She loves to see God’s Word change women completely from the inside out, just like she experienced. Julie has shared her own testimony of hope and healing after abortion in churches, radio, for women’s conferences, MOPs groups, 40 Days for Life , and for Silent No More Minnesota. Julie has a B.A. in English and Journalism as well as an M.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication. She also has a Foundations in Biblical Counseling certificate from Christian Counseling and Education Foundation (CCEF), Glenside, PA. She counsels women one-on-one and in group settings as well as online. Another passion of Julie’s is running. She has completed marathons and half-marathons, but most of all loves encouraging women to run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Heb. 12:1). She is married to Tracy and they have three married children and three grandchildren.

(Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas)

Julie was introduced to Healing Hearts in 1999. With much fear and uncertainty she came face to face with "the truth that set her free", and has never been the same. The transformational truth that Jesus' death on the cross is sufficient for all sin, even the paralyzing sin of abortion, lit a fire to share this truth with other struggling women in bondage to their own sin. The still, small voice of the Holy Spirit whispered, "What the enemy used to hold you down for so long, Jesus will use to free you to share the truth that truly sets souls free". Julie has been a part of Healing Hearts leadership since 2001. She has been a Group leader, E-counselor, one-on-one mentor, Core Group Leader, and Regional Director. Her passion for discipleship has resulted in many opportunities to share her testimony with church groups, civic groups, pregnancy centers and juvenile hall outreach. She has been a staff member in her local churches and most recently, the Director of Discipleship in her church prior to relocating to New Mexico, where she now resides with her retired husband Dan. Julie has three grown children, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren. She enjoys sharing her passion for health and active living, gardening, hiking and taking walks with her husband and dogs.

(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio & Wisconsin)
Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont & Washington D. C.)
She is also the Healing Hearts ambassador to Europe

Irene was introduced to Healing Hearts Ministries in 2018, when she completed both the Binding Up the Brokenhearted and The Hem of His Garment studies; she proceeded to receive her certification as a Biblical Counselor in 2019. In 2024, she accepted the position of Regional Director for regions 3 and 5. Irene is a mom to three beautiful girls, joyfully received a son-in-law in May 2021 and became Grammy in 2023! After raising their family in Michigan, Irene and her husband moved to North Carolina and make their home in Hendersonville. They both serve at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Southeast (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, S. Carolina & Florida)

Appalachia (Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, & West Virginia)

Deb was introduced to Healing Hearts in 1999. Seeking God’s truth and healing from an abortion that had completely changed the trajectory of her life. Subsequently she felt called to serve in Healing Hearts to come alongside other suffering, lost women. Deb went through training to become a bible study leader in 2001.

Having recently moved from Washington State to Jacksonville Florida, Deb led women through the Binding Up the Brokenhearted and The Hem of His Garment studies for several years through her church. She also served as the ministries on-line counseling program coordinator.

Taking a hiatus from ministry to homeschool her son, she and her family had made two other out of state moves since then to Austin, Texas and eventually retiring with her husband Bryan and two dogs on the beautiful Gulf Coast of Alabama. During those years Deb also served as an Administrative Assistant for a Crisis Pregnancy Center, Office Administrator for her church and assistant to the Regional Director of her church. Sensing a very strong call by the Lord a few years ago, Deb returned to Healing Hearts as an online Bible study leader. She has since served the ministry as an Area Coordinator and State Coordinator for Alabama and now as a Regional Director. She has a passion for discipleship, mentoring, and studying God’s Word. Deb’s a fierce defender of The Truth and the complete sufficiency of God and His Word for everything in life without exception.

Deb also enjoys sharing her love of all things healthy, gardening, and spending precious time with her son Blaine, daughter-in-law April and two beautiful grandchildren, Jameson and Ainsley.

Lue has served as a trained leader with Healing Hearts since 2001. She began facilitating Healing Hearts Bible studies in women’s small groups, but as the needs of our ministry grew and as technology advanced, Lue transitioned into leading women through our Bible studies via email and then online through Healing Hearts’ website so more people can participate. Currently, she is our go-to gal for any technical questions that clients or leaders may have. She has a knack for helping others navigate the digital world. Lue is happily married to Chuck and they have two grown children.

Prior to her retirement from ministry in 2025, Judy had been with Healing Hearts Ministries since 1991 and was the driving force in developing and overseeing its biblical training program. She has been involved in Christian ministries since 1982, serving for many years as one of Healing Hearts’ longest-serving board members. Judy maintains a passionate belief that God’s Word is sufficient to meet all the needs of mankind. Judy has overseen women’s ministry, small group ministry, intercessory prayer groups, counseling ministry, and premarital counseling.

Judy and her husband, Doug, have been married since 1978.