For millions in Canada, the wounds from trauma are life-limiting, compromising spiritual, mental and physical health and affecting relationships. Caring for the Wounded Heart is CBS’ trauma healing ministry drawing on the restorative power of God’s Word.
People support each other in study groups as they explore the Bible-based curriculum and basic mental health concepts. A CBS-trained facilitator helps them identify their pain, share their suffering, forgive their oppressors, and bring their pain to God for healing.
Caring for the Wounded Heart has already been embraced in English, French and diaspora churches, as well as in Indigenous communities, among military veterans and in correctional facilities.
Since July 2020, CBS has been building a team of trained facilitators to bring trauma healing to more people. Now, the training and mentoring of facilitators, and master facilitators is beginning to expand rapidly.
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CANADIAN FACILITATORS WITH INTERNATIONAL REACH
- Five CBS-trained facilitators in Hong Kong are leading Cantonese groups. Meanwhile, 21 people in Hong Kong qualified as Apprentice Facilitators and are learning to lead groups.
- Other facilitators, trained by CBS and now living in the US traveled to Belize to run a healing group and trained the staff of an anti-human trafficking organization.
MOVING TOWARDS HEALING: In a recent presentation, Bishop Isaiah Beardy, an Indigenous Anglican bishop and hereditary chief from Northern Manitoba, shared how reconnecting with his people’s Cree language—through Scriptures, songs, and church liturgy—was vital to his healing from the trauma of residential schools. Bishop Beardy has a vision to introduce Caring for the Wounded Heart to 14 of his communities in Northern Manitoba and invited CBS to partner with him in that outreach.
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