How We Serve
Helping starts with understandingWomen in Potentially Destructive and Harmful Relationships
Do you constantly find yourself “walking on eggshells” in order to avoid upsetting your partner? Does your partner constantly criticize you? Are you confused about what a healthy relationship looks like?
How we serve individuals
We serve victims of abuse through a comprehensive, compassionate, Christ-centered response. We believe God’s heart is for the oppressed and long to see the captives set free (Isaiah 61:1-4). We provide support to the oppressed through resources, practical assistance, education, and Christian mentoring to overcome the spiritual, physical, and mental impacts of abuse. We offer direct assistance through the following avenues:
- Advocates assist in helping survivors by guiding them through the intricate matters they face. They connect survivors to resources and tools to help them explore their options in order to achieve the best possible outcome.
- Support Groups combine scriptural truth with education on the dynamics and impacts of domestic abuse and coercive control, as well as research-based practices for overcoming trauma.(Online and Nationwide)
- Church Support through educational events, training, and mentorship from a biblical perspective we equip churches and ministry leaders to provide the best possible outcome for women in destructive marriages.
- Healing Retreats bring together the leading Christian domestic abuse experts to provide expertise, education, and support for both survivors and people helpers.
Practical Assistance (Emergency help with practical needs)
Friends and Family
Are you heartbroken by a situation you’ve been made aware of in your family or circle of friends? Has someone you love suddenly cut off contact, especially after beginning a new relationship? Has someone told you they think they are in an abusive relationship, but you’re not sure and want to understand more about the dynamics of domestic abuse?
Churches
For many abused women, the first person they reach out to is a ministry leader or pastor. How can you as a pastor or church leader tell the difference between a disappointing marriage and an abusive one? What do you do when the stories don’t match? How can you make sure you’re keeping the true victim safe and holding the abuser accountable in order to care for both of them without harming either one of them?
How We Serve Churches
We host educational events and provide training and mentoring from a biblical perspective to equip churches and ministry leaders to be able to provide the best possible outcome for a destructive marriage.
Counselors and People Helpers
Are you providing marriage counseling or mentoring to a couple and confused by how it’s going? Do you know what red flags to look for and how to counsel a marriage devastated by abuse? How do you tell when a relationship crosses the line to abuse? Do you clearly see an abusive situation and need to know what the next steps are?
How We Serve Counselors and People Helpers
We have a number of training videos as well as providing advocacy consultation and resources. Many counselors and people helpers choose to take our advocacy training program in order to learn all they can about ways to help their clients.