Dr. Steve Tracy recently had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Price and Kara Githens of The Innkeepers Podcast by Sanctuary Inn. Sanctuary Inn exists to equip, refresh, and restore God’s global workers. Both Steve and Kara have lived the cross-cultural...
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Mending the Soul Releases New Book!
After three years of contextualization, the By His Wounds: Trauma Healing for Africa Workbook will be available for purchase in November! This resource is an interactive heart guide to be used as a companion resource to the book, By His Wounds: Trauma Healing for...
Update and Prayer Requests for August Mending the Soul Africa Trainings—Nora Poling
Nora Poling flies to Uganda today where she will join Jumah and Emmanuel in conducting 3 weeks of trauma ministry. Listed below is her and the team's schedule and prayer requests. Team members Jumah Patrick - Mending The Soul African Director Nora Poling - Mending the...
Africa Trip Update – Day 5
By His Wounds Intensive Healing Conference, 2019 Fort Portal, Uganda—at the base of the “Mountains of the Moon,” the Rwenzori Mountains My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Hate is the most self-righteous of all emotions. We feel deliciously...
By His Wounds Sudanese Refugee Leaders Training Update: Arua (Bidi Bidi Camp)
Our team arrived safely in Arua on Monday, May 14. We went to the bidi bidi refugee camp that day and saw the dire conditions of the refugees firsthand. The ground where they are living is very rocky with poor soil for growing crops. In addition they are in a drought...
By His Wounds Sudanese Refugee Leaders Training Update: Adjumani
This week, the MTS team has been in the South Sudanese Refugee Camp in Adjumani, Uganda, for the first of two, five-day By His Wounds trauma trainings to train 50 African refugee ministry leaders. Here is an update from the team. Training Day #1 After introductions,...
South Sudanese Refugee Camp Trip Update & Prayer Requests
After a 1.5 hour flight last weekend, the team arrived in Adjumani. The refugee camps are only 18 miles away, but due to the road conditions it takes us one hour one way to drive there. Though we arrived road weary and jostled, our greetings by two local pastors made...
South Sudanese Refugee Camp Trip Prayer Requests
Dear friends, God has given Mending the Soul an amazing opportunity to train 100 African refugee ministry leaders in May. South Sudan, the newest country in the world, is on the brink of collapse. Country-wide conflict has displaced over a third of South Sudan’s...
Uganda Trip Update
Our team has been so blessed to connect with various ministries who are being shaped by Mending the Soul in East Africa. On the team’s next to last day in Kampala we went to a ministry for at-risk children and youth. The founder is a former street kid, and the...