It would be a horrible feeling to find out that God was blocking your prayers. I find it fascinating that for husbands there is a way you could be living that would mean your prayers are being hindered & blocked. 1 Peter‬ ‭3:7‬ ‭‬‬‬‬‬‬“Husbands, you in turn must treat your […]

While most of us would admit that abuse is wrong, there are still lies we believe that impact our actions and allow abuse to flourish.Here are just a few that I have observed as I’ve talked to people: * It’s better to be silent & cover up the abuse than […]

A few years ago I was attending a government meeting in my city on sexual violence. After two hours of discussion, with no real solutions, a woman stood up and in a passionate voice went on to tell her story. She was violently raped to the point where her back […]

“What did you say?” were the thoughts running through my head as I was interviewing a former prostituted woman. Ally-Marie had grown up in New Zealand and as a little girl, she attended a church where men in that church sexually abused her and the leaders covered it up. “The […]

If it isn’t traumatic enough to experience abuse or being raped, on top of this atrocity is the shame that so many victims carry for years, if not a lifetime. Shame tells a horrible lie that just maybe my abuse was my fault. It whispers other lies like, if I […]

This is an all too common saying that we speak to a person who has messed up and now they are reaping the consequences and there’s not really any hope for the situationThis is a lie!!! Yes there will be consequences for some of our bad decisions, but that does […]

“I’ve healed from the trauma of being raped but not from the trauma of the silence of my family.” At the age of 4 Pita was raped by his 15 year old next door neighbour. Unfortunately, when he told the adults in his family they all pretended like nothing ever […]