The People Behind Agape Grove
Erika Beriou
Founder & Executive Director Erika Beriou is the founder and executive director of Agape Grove. Her work is guided by a deep belief that healing is woven into the design of the human body, mind, and spirit, and that when people are given the right support, knowledge, and environment, remarkable restoration can take place.
Over the years, Erika has become increasingly passionate about the interconnected nature of health. She believes that true well-being cannot be understood through a single lens, but instead emerges from the relationship between our physical health, emotional lives, environments, relationships, and spiritual grounding.
Throughout her life and career, Erika has been drawn to spaces where people feel safe enough to share their struggles and curious enough to seek deeper understanding. Those experiences helped shape her desire to create environments where education, holistic practices, and community can come together in meaningful ways.
Agape Grove grew from that vision — a place where people can gather, learn, and rediscover their God-given ability to heal, grow, and thrive.
Treasurer
Samantha Wermerskirchen
Samantha serves as the financial steward of Agape Grove, overseeing the organization’s financial integrity and operational health as Treasurer and Bookkeeper. A lifelong friend and trusted confidante of founder Erika Beriou, she has supported the vision of the Grove since its earliest beginnings.
With over ten years of executive leadership experience, Samantha previously served as a General Manager responsible for overseeing more than $3 million in annual sales. In that role, she managed bookkeeping, profit and loss analysis, operational systems, and team development - bringing strong financial oversight and attention to detail to everything she does.
Samantha believes that financial wellness and responsible stewardship are essential components of holistic well-being. At Agape Grove, she works diligently to ensure financial processes, compliance, and organizational systems are managed with transparency and integrity so the mission can grow on a strong and sustainable foundation.
Outside of her work with the organization’s infrastructure, Samantha is passionate about natural living and the study of herbal and home-based remedies. Since starting her family, she has devoted time to researching and crafting nourishing foods, broths, tinctures, salves, and natural household products - always seeking the highest quality solutions.
She is deeply committed to ensuring the mission of Agape Grove flourishes for generations to come.
Hayley Alt
Holistic Wellness Coordinator
Above all - Hayley believes the body and spirit respond to the environment and situations they are put in. Every person will respond differently and in their own specific ways.
As part of her training, Hayley was taught to decipher the triggering influences which cause illness and pain, whether internal or external, and to identify the impacted areas. From there, she is then able to work to restore balance, ease disruptions and clear blockages which have been preventing whole health and wellness.
When aligned with disease, undesirable symptoms will arise; eventually manifesting into illness, pain, and poor health.
When aligned with wellness, symptoms will resolve, pain will subside, and true health can be felt as the mind, body & spirit achieve a harmonious connection.
Hayley’s primary goal as a healthcare provider is to help her patients align with wellness, in physical, spiritual, mental and emotional ways!
