Help the Hurting
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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.
54 Supporters
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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Layla’s* situation was hopeless by most standards. She fled her homeland and arrived in our country with little to her name.
Your gifts make a difference. Amira* lives in an IDP camp with her two young daughters, second wife to her husband. Our team uses a weekly mobile mental health project to sit, share, and listen to families in their homes. One of the first weeks in the camp, we met Amira and her daughters and shared the gospel with them. Amira sat attentively, asking questions along the way. Our encounter was the first time she had heard the story of Jesus’s death and resurrection. A few weeks later, our team returned to visit Amira. While there, we shared more from Scripture, and she asked for a Bible. Amira cannot read, so we brought her an audio recording of God’s Word. A few weeks later, we met Layla*, the first wife of Amira’s husband. Early on in the visit with Layla, it was evident she was open to Truth. Our team presented the gospel to her and her daughter. As our team has continued to follow up with Amira, God has given us opportunities to share with her husband and neighbors around her. Amira does not believe, but she continues to be interested in knowing more about our Father. Pray for Amira, Layla, and their husband. Ask the Father to open their eyes to God’s great love for them.