Empower recently facilitated a training for the staff of Sonrise Ministries in Jinga, Uganda. Sonrise started as a home for orphan babies in 2009. It has since grown into a Baby Village, a Children’s Village, a Home for street girls, and three community schools. Running all these ministry operations is a work of love for … Read more
For years, Empower Minister Linda Ikeda, RN MFT, has traveled to Malawi, often accompanied by Empower Minister Missionary Sue Kerrigan, RN, bringing two seminars Linda developed: Healing from Trauma, and Created to Belong. The first is to help people suffering from trauma to find healing. The second is for caregivers of those who are traumatized, … Read more
It is always wonderful to hear from pastors in areas we have visited, who are carrying on the work we began. The seeds we have planted by teaching and facilitating seminars are growing into a veritable harvest! An encouraging example of this came this week from Pastor Nation Munthali, a pastor in Northern Malawi, where … Read more
Linda Ikeda, Empower’s director of Created to Belong, and creator of our Healing from Trauma and Created to Belong seminars, recently returned from her trip to Rwanda and Malawi. Once again, the material on trauma, attachment and women’s health was enthusiastically received. Here is her report. By Linda Ikeda Reflecting on a trip like this … Read more
Sue Kerrigan and Jeanette Wheeler recently returned from a two week trip to Malawi, where they taught in two locations: Nkhata Bay and Mulanje. The trip began with four days in Nkhata Bay, where Sue and Jeanette taught Created to Belong, Healing from Trauma, and our new Women’s Health Seminar, which covers a wide range … Read more
Linda Ikeda and Sue Kerrigan are back in Malawi this week, seeing first-hand the effectiveness our “train the trainers” model. Linda reports that she and Sue, along with new partner Ann Lo, have visited ten villages in two days, where graduates of the Created to Belong and Healing from Trauma workshops have trained others. The … Read more
Children who lose their parents go through unimaginable trauma. The loss of the person they’ve just begun to attach to, especially at a tender age, interrupts their emotional and intellectual development. Those left to care for them are often traumatized as well. In areas devastated by the AIDS pandemic, poverty, hunger, and other challenges, trauma … Read more
Dear Friends, Family and Prayer Partners, We are joyously and safely home from Africa thanks to your prayers! Considering that we had 8 flights where multiple things could go wrong with each one, we had very few glitches-one suitcase that arrived a day late, and one delayed flight which meant we missed our connecting flight … Read more