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Dear facilitator family,
We pray you have a blessed Christmas as you celebrate the birth of our Savior. May God’s peace, provision, and presence cover your families and ministry this season.
Together with you, we are thankful to God for the healing that has happened this year around the globe. We also look ahead to his continued work through each of us in the coming year.
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We reached milestones this year worth celebrating! |
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See more about the impact you’re a part of! |
GCOP Recap |
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This October, three hundred people from 60 countries came together in Nairobi and online for our Global Community of Practice gathering! The theme for this year’s event, Stronger Together, speaks to a truth: Trauma healing ministry work is rewarding and inspiring, but it is also difficult and heavy — too great a burden for any one of us to bear alone. Together, we can keep going.
Dr. Heather Evans, a social worker who specializes in posttraumatic growth, helped our global community stay strong together by sharing her expertise about nurturing the mind, body, and spirit in trauma healing work—something we all need. We are refreshed and empowered! Take a look at this highlight from day two:
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The connections we made with each other in Nairobi and online, and the ministry innovations we shared, will shape the future of what we do…together.
In our next edition of this newsletter, we will include links to the plenary sessions and the selected workshops we recorded. |
Testimonies from the field |
Just as we are stronger together in ministry, so we are in the safe communities of healing groups. Here are two stories to encourage you today. |
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A facilitator from India shares about a young woman who experienced childhood trauma and considered ending her life...until she joined a healing group and brought her pain to the cross. |
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God is using trauma healing in Kenya to bring freedom to prison inmates' hearts. There are inmates serving life sentences who went through a healing group and are now leading groups themselves! |
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