On December 23rd Celestia celebrates her 60th birthday and just 24 hours later, we will celebrate 40 years of marriage – that is four decades of loving the most complex and beautiful woman I’ve ever known. When we wed, we purposed to kick the biggest dent in history...
Advent is a profound season in the Christian calendar. We celebrate Jesus coming into our world to bring redemption and life. And in our western culture, we have a host of evocative traditions, music, even decorations which denote the Christmas season. Our minds are...
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...
Intense pain defies words. It is captured instead in fragments by the soul. On mornings when I wake to the heaviness of all that keeps breaking in our world I know I must strap on my pink trainers and head out to walk-run-pray. It is my most desperate grasp for God’s...
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,...
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...