About Us

Mission Serenity

Mission Serenity is a “Christ-centred” project set up to assist people, and the local church community, in the healing process with several community based initiatives.

We work for the good of the individual, through a range of healing programs, and endeavour to enhance the Healing Church concept through the local church.
While we are an autonomous body, we are happily affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia.
Reedy Creek is a family orientated church whose members are dedicated to health, healing and community service.

The Reedy Creek Church has the happy nick name of, “God’s Healing Church.”

We offer our services to people from all walks of life regardless of religious beliefs. Who or what you believe in is of no concern to us, but supporting you through your healing process is. Those who avail themselves of our services will not be pressured to join any church or to become Christians. This is a matter of personal choice.
Our mission is to help you restore your life from the bondage of hurts, hang ups and habits. Our people are talented, dedicated and trained and they all come from the school of hard knocks.
They are real people who have been where you are and can relate to you no matter what your issues in life may be.

Mission Serenity is funded by donations and any future income from Project Serenity, a company that offers paying clients individual counseling, seminars, motivational programs and public speaking engagements to the public and private sector.
For details of what Project Serenity can offer you, please click onto the Project web site at www.projectserenity.com.au
Please browse our many pages and feel free to contact us on a totally confidential basis.
God bless you all.
Graham and Michelle Hood.

Who We Are

Michelle Hood

Michelle Hood was born in W.A. She was a part Aboriginal baby who, due to sad circumstances was adopted out to a loving Adventist farming family in South Western W.A.

What was for the most part, and should have remained an amazing childhood, was punctuated with horror. Michelle, unbeknown to her loving family was being groomed by a ruthless predator within her church community from the age of a toddler.

This man then eventually added Michelle to his list of victims when she was nine and she continued to suffer rape and molestation at the hands of this man for six years.

Michelle went on to live a life of both turmoil and success during a period that saw her excel scholastically to achieve university degrees in Nursing, Psychology and Law.

She has extensive experience in nursing and health related issues and her degree in psychology majoring in counseling has seen her practice extensively in W.A. She has worked as a consultant within both governmental and private departments implementing new strategies.

She is the mother of four and a grandmother of nine.

She has given a horror story a happy ending with her courage, love, grace and faith.
Her testimony will astound you.

Graham Hood

Graham Hood, was born in Victoria. The son of and earth mover/plant operator, Graham spent the first three years of his life in a construction camp in central Victoria.

His parents were both victims of harder times.

His mother was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of a brutal “cane cutter” father.

His father was a child of the great depression who lost his own father at the age of fourteen. He spent five years at war in the 1940’s, and returned home with a solid work ethic, and a desire to make good for himself with no real education.
Alcoholism and constant struggle within the family made for a very dysfunctional upbringing, and a childhood lived at the edge.

Graham left school at the age of thirteen, and had a juvenile criminal conviction by the age of seventeen.

He is now a respected Captain for one of the world’s most trusted airlines.
In this role he has facilitated communication and team building workshops for pilots, and cabin crew in the airline and the military.

He has also been active in Peer assistance programs and welfare and conflict resolution, both within the airline and elsewhere. Graham is currently involved in the mentoring program within his airline, assisting new hire pilots assimilate into their chosen careers.

Graham is an accomplished facilitator and a keen public speaker.
He is as open and honest about his failings, as he is about his success, and he is a passionate participant in his future, and the future of others.

Graham is currently facilitating a very successful program for men called “Manhood Matters.”

For more information on “Manhood Matters” refer to the Manhood Matters page on this site.