2025 Conference Speakers - Ramah International Pregnancy Center Training

Instructors

Sydna Massé

Sydna Massé is author of the book/abortion recovery program, Her Choice to Heal: Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After Abortion. She is internationally known for her initial work with Dr. James C. Dobson as Focus on the Family’s Manager of Crisis Pregnancy Ministries (1991-1998). For the last 25 years, Sydna has served as CEO & Founder of Ramah International, an abortion recovery outreach and abortion-vulnerable ministry training organization (www.ramahinternational.org), and author of the HerChoicetoHeal.com website.

Sydna experienced an abortion as a teenager while attending a private Christian college. She was the first post-abortive women to share her abortion story publicly on the Focus on the Family broadcast (1992). Over the years, Sydna has likely listened to more post-abortive testimonies than anyone else living in our world today and is one of the few experts on abortion related pain. She is an internationally recognized leader of the pregnancy center/abortion recovery movement.

Jessica Deese

Jessica Deece – Jessica serves as the Executive Director of Coastal Choices Pregnancy Center in Deland, FL, where she directs all leadership responsibilities, including staff and volunteer management, as well as the day-to-day operations. Her journey with Coastal Choices began as a volunteer advocate and progressed to the Center Director position. In 2021, she transitioned into the position of Executive Director when the former director retired.

With licensure in ministry and Clinical Pastoral counseling, Jessica brings a distinctive perspective to her work at Coastal Choices, enriching her ability to support individuals in need.

Karen Fifer

Karen Fifer is the co-author of Ramah International’s Legacy Lost: Healing Abortion’s Heartache in Grandparents abortion recovery program, and the new study Boundless Light: Discovering Peace When Someone You Love Chose Abortion and the novel, The Wichita Watcher. She is a post-abortive grandparent who previously served for 25 years as the director of Client Services at a pregnancy center in Wichita, KS. She is a Ramah International board member and has over 33 years of experience helping women, men and grandparents find hope and healing after abortion.

Melissa Horton

Melissa Horton serves as Ramah International’s Educational Director and has over 20 years’ experience in serving, training, and educating staff and volunteers in local pregnancy centers and leading abortion recovery ministry efforts. Currently she serves in a leadership role for women’s ministry all the while supporting her husband in his role as a pastor of a local church the past 17 years. She loves counseling women and equipping them to find healing and peace with God in the trauma that comes from abortion.

Melissa Rodriguez

Melissa Rodriguez
Executive Assistant, Coastal Choices Women’s Clinic

Melissa’s journey into pregnancy ministry is deeply personal, rooted in her own experiences navigating post-abortion healing as a young mother. Her connection to Coastal Choices Women’s Clinic is fueled by a desire to support others facing similar challenges, evident in her commitment to the clinic’s mission and operations.

As Executive Assistant to the Executive Director, Melissa provides vital support, ensuring seamless coordination and effective execution of the clinic’s initiatives. With a profound understanding of the emotional complexities, Melissa helps extend the clinic’s reach and its transformative impact on the community.

Judy Squier

Judy Squire

Judy Squier born without complete legs, learned early on about God’s presence in suffering. She has been an inspirational speaker since age thirteen with a passion to help others find God’s gold in the rubble of their lives. Judy is a public speaker, a writer, a wife, a mother and a grandmother. Her goal in life is for those who know her to know Him, the God whose heart beats to be known up close and personal. She has written the following books:

His Majesty in Brokenness
Living in the Names of God (and Bible Study)
The Shepherd Showed Up