Healing Women Ministry
My name is Julie Grossman, and I am called to healing women ministry. I’m from Saint Paul, Minnesota, where I was born and raised, and currently live. We have a thriving Christian Church in my area, and I love being a Christian leader. Many women are suffering from assault, abuse, harassment, sickness, loss, and other trauma. For many women, this leads them away from Christ.
My story is similar. I had a wonderful childhood, raised Baptist, attended church every Sunday with my family of four. God gifted me with singing abilities. I participated in the music ministry, often singing with my father. It was at Church summer camp that I formally turned my life over to Jesus, and I was baptized at age 9. I attended the DTI (Discipleship Training Institute) summer program as a teenager.
My church family was immensely supportive when I became ill. I found out I had Crohn’s Disease at age 14, and they surrounded me with healing and loving support. Still, I struggled much with anxiety and depression.
God Brought Healing and Opportunity for Ministry
In my twenties, I didn’t live a very Godly life. I completed my Bachelors and Masters degrees. But I also drank, went out a lot, and made terrible decisions in my relationships. A turning point for me was my assault. Someone gave me a drink of orange punch while at a friend’s apartment one night to watch a movie. I blacked out and woke up later with him on top of me. Terrified, confused and unable to move, I blacked out again.
The experience didn’t destroy me. It brought me closer to God and my mission. I met a man who attended the Catholic church, and I asked him to take me to a mass. I ended up going to RCIA and joining the Catholic church. We married in the fall of 2015, and our son was born the next summer.
I did a lot of work to heal the depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress after my assault. Yoga and exercise, along with meditation and contemplation (and of course, therapy) helped heal my symptoms. The Lord also helped heal my spirituality. I started working with women who have experienced trauma — assault, abuse or loss — teaching yoga and running healing circles with inspirational readings and music.
That’s when a lightbulb went on — this could become a healing women ministry. Women could be guided to the Lord with movement, Scripture, meditation, contemplation, and prayer. I created womenshealingcircle.org and found Christian Leaders Institute as a way to learn skills in Women’s Ministry. With my young, struggling family, CLI’s free education is a Godsend.
Advice for Healing Women
It is my dream to bring healing to women suffering from trauma through my healing women ministry. I want to bring them closer to the Lord. I continue to read and study every day and feel my ministry is vital to me and my relationship with God.
Many women who have experienced the trauma of assault and abuse contact me. I offer the following advice in my healing women ministry:
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God. Isaiah 43:2-3
He has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. Hebrews 13:5
YOU ARE NOT DAMAGED
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. John 15:3
THE LORD BRINGS HEALING
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalms 147:3
‘But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the Lord. Jeremiah 30:17
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10)
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Changed Life
My name is Christopher, and I have a changed life in Christ Jesus. I was born in Singapore, into a Buddhist family. However, I attended a Christian school (elementary to senior high) as my dad was previously in that school. My dad was a believer in Christ, but my mom and my siblings were not. They were staunch Buddhist believers.
Despite knowing many stories and verses from the Bible, I never had an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, I tended to avoid Christians after my graduation from the Christian school.
I worked for some years, and I started my own business when I turned 30. Through a dare and challenge by an army mate, which I met while I was back in military camp for my (reservist) training, I went back to church. Somehow, throughout all the Sundays sitting in the congregation of thousands of worshippers, I felt that God directed the sermons at me. It was as if God was talking to me personally every Sunday. Subsequently, nine months later, I gave up my pride and sin. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
My mom saw my changed life immediately after I became a Christian. This changed life made her curious as to what changed me. Four years later, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and given less than nine months to live. I spent time taking care of her and sharing Christ with her. She accepted Christ as her Lord and Saviour too just ten days prior to her passing on. This conversion was an incredible event as she was a firm Buddhist believer before that. To this day, I praise and thank God for all that He has done for me. With faith, trust, and hope in Him, I know that I will see my mom again someday.
And now I have this opportunity to receive free ministry training at Christian Leaders Institute. May the Lord guide me to the ministry work He has for me to do. I thank you, CLI, and may the Lord bless all of you here.
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By listening to God and then obeying Him, Brooke found CLI online and can now fulfill her calling of working in women ministry in her local community.
Women Ministry: I Found Christian Leaders Institute
My name is Brooke Brueckner, and I am called to women ministry. I’m from a small town in the United States of America, Black Canyon City, Arizona.
My husband and I have been youth leaders at Calvary of Black Canyon for nearly three years now. We teach and guide children from ages 3 to 12. Though our town is beautiful and sweet, it has its share of problems with drugs and such. So we also run and coordinate the town’s outreach program (Open Gym) at our local elementary school. Many of our children have parents that don’t come to church. So these little guys get themselves up and ready on Thursdays and Sundays to go to our bus stop to get picked up for church! It is my joy to guide them in the way of the Lord. I learn from them, just as I continuously teach them in return.
I grew up in a Christian home and went to church often. When I was a teen, my mom was dealing with mental health issues. This was very tough for me, and I decided to leave home. With this decision, I also decided to leave my walk with the Lord and go down my path for about nine years. This path was very rough and steep because I wasn’t making my decisions with or for the Lord.
One day, I felt the Lord knocking on my heart of stone and slowly started to come around. I came in full swing when we moved to Black Canyon City, and God led me to Calvary. As my relationship with the Lord became strong, my mother and I rekindled our relationship, and her mental health is getting better.
The enemy is always at work and swoops in to bring us back a few steps. That did not stop us from moving forward. Instead, I became even stronger in my walk with Him. I would encourage my mom instead of abandoning her because the Lord never abandoned me. He was always there by my side. Now my mom is taking control of her health! She often helps me with many things, including homeschooling our children. God is GOOD!
While I was making pancakes one morning and talking to God, He told me I needed to focus on women ministry! So I asked him, “How do I do this, Lord?” That’s when I got a feeling to get online, and there’s where I found Christian Leaders Institute. I’m so excited because my dream is to not only help the children of our town but to help their parents! God is preparing my husband and me to help these broken families.
Christian Leaders Institute is going to guide me down the right path to reach that goal. God is amazing and always provides. You see, I can’t afford classes from many of the other online schools. I looked into it, and it is just not in my budget. But God kept bringing me back to the CLI website. I’m forever grateful to all that made this online school possible for free — not only the people that created this program but the Vision Partners as well. I’m very excited to become a vision partner soon myself.
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