# Spring of Hope Ministries A prayer-and-counseling ministry with offices in Waynesboro, Shippensburg, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It enters this wiki through local research rather than through a published source: Courtney identified **Wayne Kuhns** of Spring of Hope as having had involvement with [[world-harvest-outreach|World Harvest Outreach (Chambersburg)]], the Chambersburg congregation already profiled here as an explicitly apostolic community with documented NAR-network connections. No prior mention of Kuhns or Spring of Hope existed anywhere in the vault before 2026-09-03. **This is a stub, and everything below needs primary-source verification.** ## What public sources establish | Field | Detail | Source quality | |---|---|---| | Nature | Christ-centered prayer and counseling; per local press, aims to help clients find "the roots of destructive thoughts and behavior patterns," bringing biblical principles to bear | Local news writeup of a Rotary presentation, July 2025 | | Offices | Waynesboro (230 S Potomac St, Ste C), Shippensburg, Chambersburg | Local news; business directory | | Domain | `aspringofhope.com` | Business data aggregator | | Staffing | One full-time employee | Local news, 2025 | | Wayne Kuhns | Director until retiring in 2024; a Rotarian; LinkedIn lists a master's from "Midwest Seminary" and locates him in Chambersburg | LinkedIn self-reported; aggregator | | Successor | "Gretchen" (surname not captured) took over as director in 2024 | Local news, 2025 | ## Why it is worth a full workup The described method — prayer plus counseling to locate "the roots of destructive thoughts and behavior patterns" — is the characteristic vocabulary of the **inner-healing and deliverance counseling** family: the Elijah House, Restoring the Foundations, and Theophostic lineages. That family is adjacent to but not identical with the [[New Apostolic Reformation]], and it is a documented harm vector in high-control settings for reasons the wiki already tracks elsewhere: it operates without clinical licensure or its accountability, it locates present distress in spiritual causes assigned by the counselor, and it produces the dependency pattern described in [[2026-07-28-leaving-the-message-stage-deliverance-666]]. The relevance to [[Lateral Transfer Risk]] is direct. A counseling ministry with three county offices is a referral surface: it can move people between congregations and frameworks without any of them being named. > [!question] > Nothing here establishes that Spring of Hope teaches NAR doctrine, uses deliverance methods, or has caused harm. The vocabulary in a Rotary-talk writeup is a lead, not a finding. Before this page becomes anything more than a stub it needs the ministry's own materials — website, published method, any statement of faith — and the nature of Kuhns's involvement with World Harvest Outreach stated rather than inferred. ## Source caution One local news writeup, one LinkedIn self-report, and business aggregator data. The connection to World Harvest Outreach is Courtney's identification and is not corroborated by any public source captured so far. Kuhns and the current director are private individuals in a small community; this page is research scaffolding, not a public claim about either of them, and nothing on it should be repeated outside the wiki as established.