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These Bible insights can provide critical information and give you direction for your Biblical ministry to help better serve the needs of people in your community.
Weeping Turned to Dancing
In the foothills of Swaziland, a small country in Southern Africa, Sophie* shuffled into a cement classroom and found a seat on the dirt floor. As men and women filed into the room, she smiled, flashing an ear-to-ear grin. But beneath her smile, Sophie carried deep wounds—both emotional and physical. Like more than 380,000 adults in Swaziland, Sophie lives with…
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After A Violent Militia Attack, God’s Word Healed One Woman
While hiding in a field of overgrown grass, Leyla* watched a crowd of soldiers enter a thatched hut in Tore Wandi, her home village. She heard scuffling on the dirt floor. She heard the shrill of voices. And she watched the soldiers burn the hut to the ground. Just weeks earlier, a woman from another South Sudanese village told Leyla…
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Living with HIV, One Woman Found Hope
For years, Grace feared walking to the market with her friends. She dreaded celebrating holidays with her family. And she constantly worried about sleeping, wondering if her agonizing nightmares would return. Every day, Grace endured judgment, rejection and hostility—because every day, Grace endured life with HIV....they experience life as castaways—as outsiders stripped of their voice. In Grace’s South Sudanese community,…
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After Soldiers Murdered His Family, One Man Chose Forgiveness
Martin stashed his belongings into a bag, stuffed his feet into a pair of shoes and began to run. After soldiers brutally killed his father, mother and grandmother during the Burundian Civil War—an ethnic conflict that began in the mid-1990s between tribes in the tiny, East African country—Martin set out to flee his violent surroundings. He desperately wanted a fresh…
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In Kenya, Trauma Healing Offers Hope in the Midst of Turmoil
Less than a year ago, a husband and wife team visited Garissa University College in northeast Kenya to host a Bible-based trauma healing session, a program that helps survivors of violence, abuse and natural disasters find healing through God’s Word. Because the region is prone to militant attacks, the couple shared their training with a group of 35 local students.…
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Bible-based trauma healing launches in the Middle East
In a small room just outside of the city of Amman, Jordan, nearly 50 people gathered in December to attend the first Bible-based trauma healing session in the Middle East.Trauma healing is especially urgent for the church in Jordan because of the large number of Syrian and Iraqi refugees who are flooding into the country after experiencing violence and war.…
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