Project Overview

Nearly continuous violence and conflict for over two generations have led millions of Middle Eastern people to experience multiple traumatic events. Because of these experiences, many people continue to suffer from debilitating symptoms of mental illness, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These symptoms not only affect a person’s daily life and impair their ability to function; they hinder the person’s ability to hear the gospel. In Exodus 6:9, God’s chosen people are not able to hear from God because of their discouragement. Many times, the trauma people have experienced prevents them from even hearing this message of hope. A team of long-term workers has developed a Trauma Healing Ministry to help people to find eternal healing and comfort through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Your gift will enable the team of long-term workers and their national partners to start trauma healing groups in internally displaced people (IDP) camps and local neighborhoods. In the same way that Jesus physically healed people, the Trauma Healing Ministry helps people find healing from past traumas, introduces them to the Savior who offers complete healing and enables them to find a purpose for their lives. The ministry equips and empowers people who have received comfort from God to comfort others by forming authentic, reproducing communities that promote emotional and spiritual healing. The program is biblically based, contains reputable psychological interventions, and can be reproduced by nationals as they take ownership of the ministry and adapt the materials for their context. The materials are being used in dozens of locations worldwide, including one set of materials developed specifically for the Middle East. Through the Trauma Healing Ministry, thousands of people have already experienced healing from past trauma, and hundreds of people have come to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.