In a farmhouse in Krum, Texas, Becca Hobby learned something most people never have to learn, how to love someone through the wreckage and glory of war, and how to build a tender, joy-filled life in its aftermath. She met her husband, Ken, shortly after he returned home from his second tour in Iraq. Together, they have raised three children within a marriage shaped by rhythms only military families understand: goodbyes that come too soon, homecomings that require you to relearn each other, and seasons when you carry everything alone because there is no one else to carry it. Becca knows that isolation firsthand. It was in the middle of a desperate season of heartache that she found the Military Veteran Peer Network MVPN in early 2022, (which then led her to the VSN) — not because she was looking to lead anyone, but because she was looking for someone who understood. What she found was healing—real, tangible healing within her home, her marriage, and her heart—through the simple, sacred act of another spouse saying, “I know. I’ve been there too.”
That healing lit a fire in her and over the past four years, Becca has shown up again and again as a Peer Leader with VSN for fellow military spouses—primarily through individual peer support, where she can truly impact lives one conversation at a time—not simply because it is her role, but because she remembers exactly what it felt like to be met with compassion instead of platitudes. She has made it her mission to offer that same gift to every spouse she has the honor of meeting. Ask Becca why she does this work with VSN, and her answer is disarmingly simple: she believes every person has the capacity to reach their full potential, and she genuinely loves watching people step into it. She is endlessly curious about the human mind, resilience, and the small, daily habits that quietly rebuild a life. Beneath all that curiosity, however, is something steadier: the quiet confidence that no one has to carry their hardest seasons alone. It’s what draws her to peer support — and for her, it’s grounded in her faith in Jesus. Her hope for every person she walks alongside is simple and enormous all at once: that they leave every conversation feeling seen, supported, and a little more hopeful about what lies ahead.
Becca currently serves as a Peer Service Coordinator with MVPN, but ask her what that means and she will not call herself an expert; through MVPN and VSN alike, she will say she is first and foremost a peer, someone who has walked the same road, carried the same weight, and knows that connection, not credentials, is what truly heals. Before Becca was able to call peer support her job, Becca spent years in vocational ministry, learning how to build community, sit with people in their hardest moments, and truly listen instead of simply waiting to speak. She will tell you that season shaped the instincts and the deeply held beliefs she brings to peer support today. Becca is confident that this role is what she was called to do. She is rarely without her peer support hat on, but outside those moments and conversations, you will find her with her husband, Ken, their three boys, and friends who have become family—living fully and gratefully the ordinary life she once was not sure she would get to have.