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...
This week we remember and celebrate the last week of Jesus’ life. It is a very special week in the Christian calendar. The Gospels devote almost one-third of their length to Jesus’ final seven days. Ironically, Christmas is a much, much bigger American holiday. But...
Who would be interested in a unique investment opportunity in a foreign country with an estimated 24 trillion (you read that correctly) in minerals just waiting to be dug out of the ground? What if you knew that this investment had a historic return of over 500 to 1?...
Dear friends, I am excited to tell you that in a few weeks we will be having two Africa trip fundraisers in Phoenix. As most of you know, Mending the Soul for over a decade has been helping trauma survivors around the world. Since 2007 we have placed a particular...
Given the fact that Mending the Soul’s mission is to create educational and healing resources on abuse, it is not surprising that we’ve been inundated with comments and questions about the #Metoo movement and related social/political controversies. Hence, this post is...
In many respects, Celestia and I mark our lives by the year 2007, the year we first went to Africa, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to conduct a series of trauma trainings for Mending the Soul. What we experienced in the Congo was so life transforming that we...
Through God's provision, MTS has equipped local and global leaders from California to Virginia and Asia to Africa! If you are serving individuals with complex trauma such as human trafficking this training is for you. It is experiential, practical, and interactive. In...
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...
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,...