Today we’d like to introduce you to Betty Beard.
Hi Betty, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I started this journey as a quiet, introverted girl who always felt deeply connected to God but didn’t always know how to express it. For years, I served behind the scenes, teaching, raising my children, building businesses, and navigating some of the hardest seasons of my life. From childhood into adulthood, I learned how to survive, how to be strong, and how to keep going even when I felt rejected, overlooked, misunderstood, or hidden.
But it was in that hiddenness where God developed me.
I walked through seasons of wilderness, heartbreak, and pressure that forced me to discover who I really was. I had to grow as a wife, a mother, a woman, and a leader. I had to confront areas of myself I once avoided. Every breaking season became a birthing season, and every closed door pushed me closer to purpose.
Over time, my passion for teaching, healing, and rescuing this generation grew stronger. I began ministering and mentoring young people at a school bus stop in Hattiesburg, MS. We talked about bullying, identity, and walking boldly in the calling God placed on their lives. What started as quiet obedience evolved into a global mandate, to speak life, restore families, preach the gospel, and raise up a generation secure in who they are.
Today, I am the founder and visionary of The Rescue Room, a movement dedicated to pulling youth out of darkness through raw conversation, mentorship, creativity, and the power of God. I travel, preach, build, write, and create spaces for people to encounter healing and hope. Everything I do, from homeschooling my children to building digital products to developing young leaders, flows from the very place God processed me in.
My story is proof that God can take someone hidden and broken, and turn them into a voice.
I didn’t arrive here quickly or easily. I arrived by surviving, surrendering, and saying “yes” even when I didn’t feel qualified, ready, or seen. And I’m still evolving. But one thing remains certain: I was born for this generation, and my assignment is to rescue, build, and lead with authenticity, fire, and compassion.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Not at all. My journey has been anything but smooth. I come from a background marked by childhood trauma, rejection, and seasons where I had to grow up emotionally long before I was ready. Those early wounds shaped how I saw myself, how I navigated relationships, and how I carried strength, sometimes to my own detriment. God had to teach me that survival isn’t the same as healing.
As an adult, I faced new battles that forced me to confront the ones I tried to bury. Marriage exposed areas of vulnerability I didn’t know how to express. Motherhood tested parts of my heart I didn’t know existed, especially raising a rebellious child while trying to hold myself together. There were days I felt defeated, misunderstood, and overwhelmed, wondering if I was failing at the very thing I prayed for. But even in the hardest moments, God taught me patience, resilience, and how to love through pain.
I’ve gone through financial pressures, spiritual warfare, health struggles, and seasons where I felt completely unseen while carrying heavy responsibilities. I’ve battled anxiety, exhaustion, and the weight of being “the strong one” even when I felt like breaking.
But every struggle refined me.
The wilderness seasons taught me discipline. The heartbreak taught me compassion. Motherhood taught me perseverance. And my spiritual battles taught me authority. Nothing about my journey has been easy, but every challenge has prepared me for the assignment I stand in today. I am who I am because of the road I survived, not the road I wished for.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a preacher, teacher, mentor, and builder with a heart for rescuing the younger generation. My life’s work revolves around restoring identity, healing broken places, and creating spaces where young people and families can encounter real transformation. I specialize in combining spiritual insight with practical strategy, whether I’m ministering, mentoring, writing, homeschooling, or creating tools that empower youth.
I am best known as the founder and visionary of The Rescue Room, the ministry God entrusted to me. The Rescue Room is a deliverance-centered, identity-restoring, youth-focused movement designed to pull this generation out of darkness through truth, transparency, discipleship, and the power of God. It is a ministry built for those who feel overlooked, rejected, broken, or bound. Through raw conversations, mentorship, teaching, and prophetic guidance, The Rescue Room confronts what’s destroying this generation and leads them into healing, purpose, and freedom.
Beyond my ministry, I serve as a developer of young leaders, a homeschool mother, a curriculum creator, and an encourager to women who feel called but unseen. Everything I create, whether a lesson plan, devotional, youth mentorship moment, or digital product, flows from the same assignment: to rescue and restore.
What I am most proud of is that I remained obedient to God when my life didn’t look like ministry at all. I built The Rescue Room from a place of wilderness, deliverance, healing, and private yeses to God. Today, watching young people encounter freedom, families be strengthened, and people find their voice through this ministry is one of my greatest honors.
What sets me apart is authenticity and the anointing to reach the hidden ones. I don’t minister from a perfect place, I minister from a processed place. I’m transparent, relatable, and unafraid to address the hard conversations that many shy away from. My life and ministry carry a raw honesty, a prophetic edge, and a deep compassion for the broken because I’ve been there myself.
The Rescue Room isn’t just what I do.
It’s who I am.
And my assignment is simple: rescue, restore, and rebuild this generation with fire, truth, and compassion.
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
I define success by how well you serve others and how effectively you help people solve real problems in their lives. To me, success isn’t measured by status, titles, or applause, it’s measured by impact.
If your presence brings clarity, if your obedience brings healing, if your work answers a need, and if your life makes someone else’s journey lighter, then you’re successful. I believe God judges success by service. The more we pour into others, uplift others, and help them overcome the very things we once struggled with, the more successful we truly are.
For me, success is when I am able to give young people solutions, identity, and hope. It’s when my pain becomes someone else’s roadmap. It’s when someone says, “Because of your obedience, I’m better.
Pricing:
- Rescue Room Journals- $25
- Rescued Generation Tshirts- $20
- Rescued Generation Hoodies- $40
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rescueroom_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betty.mayfield2/
- Other: https://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Room-Journal-Prompts-Transform/dp/B0FXKHPS73
Image Credits
Paul Jae Photography
