I got to spend the last week with the WMF Staff, and some of the Sari Bari leadership staff at a "Hands that Heal" training event. It is a curriculum that "provides a comprehensive approach to serving victims of trafficking and educating caregivers so that they may appropriately and effectively provide care and support." (here's a link to their website).
...man, it was amazing.
...it was amazing to watch the way the women interacted with the curriculum.
...it was amazing to watch them get up and speak in public...to tell parts of their stories.
they were so confident. so confident. willing to speak to the whole group.
they even split up into different groups (there were 6 of us there, and they just split up into different groups and got involved!)
they were like sponges...soaking up the information...and soaking up the opportunity to be invested in.
it was such a privelege to see some fruit from of the investment and development that we've done in the past.
like when we were talking about emotions and they said, "oh, we've talked about this before at our leadership school"
and even their understanding of God, and the ways they see Him and know Him...
like at one point we were talking about the character of God, and my group was asked to read a verse and discuss what we can know about God from him. it was the verse about how the "old is gone, the new has come" and i said something along the lines of, "well, if God can make us new then we can believe that he can also make other people new" and one of the SB ladies said, "no, it's not that he can. he WILL" - how about that?!?!
and then another time we were talking about the passage where the 4 friends lower their paralytic friend through the roof to be healed by Jesus...and the speaker asked what different resources were used...and after the obvious things had been exhausted one of the women said, "they used their faith" and someone else said, "they used their minds...their cleverness" man, they blow me away.
in the training we talked about how part of community development is observing...and listening to the community...entering in...that we don't need external experts...but that the communities we are entering into are full of resources and wisdom. isn't that the truth?! it was such a joy to see the experts within SB. it was a privilege to listen as they spoke from their experiences, and their perspectives, and to learn from and alongside them.
...man, it was amazing.
...it was amazing to watch the way the women interacted with the curriculum.
...it was amazing to watch them get up and speak in public...to tell parts of their stories.
they were so confident. so confident. willing to speak to the whole group.
they even split up into different groups (there were 6 of us there, and they just split up into different groups and got involved!)
they were like sponges...soaking up the information...and soaking up the opportunity to be invested in.
it was such a privelege to see some fruit from of the investment and development that we've done in the past.
like when we were talking about emotions and they said, "oh, we've talked about this before at our leadership school"
and even their understanding of God, and the ways they see Him and know Him...
like at one point we were talking about the character of God, and my group was asked to read a verse and discuss what we can know about God from him. it was the verse about how the "old is gone, the new has come" and i said something along the lines of, "well, if God can make us new then we can believe that he can also make other people new" and one of the SB ladies said, "no, it's not that he can. he WILL" - how about that?!?!
and then another time we were talking about the passage where the 4 friends lower their paralytic friend through the roof to be healed by Jesus...and the speaker asked what different resources were used...and after the obvious things had been exhausted one of the women said, "they used their faith" and someone else said, "they used their minds...their cleverness" man, they blow me away.
in the training we talked about how part of community development is observing...and listening to the community...entering in...that we don't need external experts...but that the communities we are entering into are full of resources and wisdom. isn't that the truth?! it was such a joy to see the experts within SB. it was a privilege to listen as they spoke from their experiences, and their perspectives, and to learn from and alongside them.
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This is really beautiful!
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