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Develop trauma healing groups and care centers that help people who have lived through horrific wartime circumstances to find healing from trauma and salvation through Christ.
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About This Project
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.
Why direct giving matters
Giving directly to a missionary team helps fund the specific, on-the-ground needs your missionaries care deeply about—needs that aren't covered by CP and LMCO alone.
In the next five years, a globalization goal of all IMB workers is to mobilize 500 local believers to become global missionary partners serving on IMB teams.
100% of your gift directly supports missionaries and their ministries overseas.
100% of your gift directly supports missionaries and their ministries overseas.
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