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Ed Welch – The Church as a Place of Healing (#CCEF2023 Main Session 6)
Ed Welch did a session asking us to consider ways we can be growing as a church in light of what we have been learning this weekend. He asked us to consider how our church can be a place of healing? (How has our church already been a place of healing in the past?) Ed… Read More »
Julie Lowe – Growing in Hope (#CCEF2023 Main Session 5)
Darby Strickland – Vigilance and the Invitation to Vulnerability (#CCEF2023 Main Session 3)
Darby Strickland’s main session included an invitation to vulnerability. Scripture calls us to lean into God and fellow believers in seasons of deep anguish. It is not good for us to be alone. But vulnerability requires opening up oneself to another and that can be scary. For those who have been traumatized, there may be… Read More »
Julie Lowe and Darby Strickland – The Experience of Trauma (#CCEF2023 Main Session 2)
For the second session, Julie Lowe and Darby Strickland powerfully drew us into the experience and deep impact of trauma through a role play interwoven with scripture from Jeremiah and Lamentations. The story they used was 15-year-old Kayla, who was groomed and victimized by her soccer coach, Mr. Smith, who was a member of her… Read More »
CCEF 2023: Trauma- Main Session Summaries
For those of you who missed #CCEF2023, or this year’s Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation Conference, below are summaries of the main sessions. This year’s theme was “Trauma: How God’s Light Breaks into Our Deepest Darkness.” I hope these summaries will be a blessing to you. The conference audio is now available for purchase here.