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January 2020 Update

2/6/2020

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"There are not enough mental health professionals to meet the immense need for
comfort and to teach basic emotional strategies that can bring relief and healing to
people in our communities-including children and teens. This is how the church can
help."
Excerpt from the Life Hurts, Love Heals curriculum.
Trauma is part of the human experience in the broken world. Trauma happens
when a person is overwhelmed with fear, helplessness, or horror in the face of
death or threat of death. This affects their psychological, physical, emotional,
and spiritual well-being.

This is the tragedy of trauma:
  • Trauma disrupts lives.
  • Trauma destroys hope.
  • Trauma perpetuates in cycles of violence.
  • Trauma isolates people from self, others, and God.

Which brings up our central questions. How do people recover from trauma?
Can the Bible help? What can the church do? You know I have been involved in
the adult and teen curriculum for Healing the Wounds of Trauma. This month, I
also had the opportunity to participate in the children's version.
Why is Children’s Trauma Healing Needed?

Whenever a community is traumatized, children suffer, but often they are
without a voice and their heart wounds go untreated. Children have some basic
needs: safety, structure, order, protection, comfort, intimacy, adults they can
trust, autonomy, and control of their lives. But when there is trauma, it fills
their formative years with violence, abandonment, neglect, chaos,
unpredictability, danger, cruelty, abuse, boundary violation, and exploitation.
Living in the present, children have no backdrop of the past to help them
under stand what has happened. Because they believe adults are good, often
they conclude they are responsible for bad things that happen. They have great
difficulty articulating their inner pain because their language skills are still in
development. When adults don’t know how to help traumatized children,
their response is one of frustration, which only increases the child’s pain and
despair.

This is where the Children's Training in Healing the Wounds of Trauma can help.
In Uganda, we did a 3-day classroom training with 26 adults and then
facilitated a 5-day Healing Hearts Club camp with 84 kids from the ages of 8 to
13 in attendance. It was a long 8 days but beautiful in how we saw the Lord
work, including 7 of those children giving their lives to Christ. We are thankful
for the facilitation team who made it possible, Good Shepherd's Fold for hosting
the event, and the Trauma Healing Institute for continuing to develop tools for
our tool kits in helping those whose hearts have been wounded! Thank you to
my partners in the states for making it possible for both me and Rumbi to
attend!!

Thank you for your continued love and support,

Misty
Prayer requests and praises:
  • For my family as we walk this grief journey, transitioning from times of anger and denial to no hope
  • For travel to Ethiopia February 2nd and then to the states February 14
  • For travel to Florida February 23rd and as we pilot our 2nd To Strength From Weakness Group February 24-26
  • For my mom: for peace and financial provision as she received some unexpected news about her health
  • For continued healing for my grandma as she continues Physical Therapy after a fall
  • Praise for the 7 who gave their lives to the Lord
  • Praise for the Advanced Equipping in Uganda
  • Praise for our first Community of Practice for Trauma Healing in Jinja
  • Praise for renewal of friendships and relationships in Uganda
  • Praise for time spent with Rumbi
Would you prayerfully consider becoming a partner of Misty Bodkins in 2020? There are 2 ways you may donate to Misty at Ministry Care. You can make checks payable to “Ministry Care” and send them to:
Ministry Care
14934 Pacer Ct.
Carmel, IN 46032

Or you can also make an online donation, using Givelify, on our website
at www.ministrycareinternational.org

Ministry Care is a 501c3 therefore your donation will be tax deductible.
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If you have any questions feel free to email us as ministrycareinternational@gmail.com
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    Misty Bodkins has a Master's degree in clinical psychology. She has worked both stateside and internationally doing counseling, training, teaching, and research. Her passion is working with people who are in crisis. 

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