Author: Adventures

Atlanta Retreat-June 11-13

          Welcome to Beauty for Ashes at Adventures in Missions… YOUR JOURNEY TO RESTORATION BEGINS HERE   ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JUNE 11-13, 2010   We are all carrying around our own set of emotional wounds and hurts from life. Perhaps they are wounds we received in childhood or maybe hurts we’ve picked up along the way – but we all have them!   God has given us some wonderful ways to be healed from these wounds – no matter how deep and big they may be. This is based on Isaiah 61 where we exchange our...

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Healing Resources

Great Books we highly recommend for healing, transformation, restoration Captivating by Stasi Eldredge Healing Toxic Emotions by Mary Alice Isleib Shattered Dreams by Larry Crab Breaking Free by Beth Moore Out of Control & Loving It by Lisa Bevere The Seven Desires of Every Heart by Mark & Debra Laaser Freedom from Addiction by Neil Anderson & Mike Quarles Broken Children, Grown up Pain: understanding the effects of your wounded past by Paul Hegstrom The Life Model: Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You by Friesen, Wilder, Bierling, Koepcke, Poole Changes that...

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A Little History

“I am HIV positive and my ten year old son is HIV positive. I have seven other children. I am sick.”  This quote came from a woman who shared her pain during February 2009 at the first Beauty for Ashes retreat in Manzini, Swaziland.  It was a story that echoes thousands of other women across Africa. For years, God had been speaking to Seth Barnes, the founder of Adventures in Missions about the women of Swaziland being the hope for this nation.  In a culture where there is so much brokenness (a large population of orphans and widows) and many people hiding behind...

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Beauty for Ashes

There is a movement of God on the earth that is calling women into the reality of who they are and into the healing and freedom that was always intended for them.       Beauty for Ashes is a part of that movement.   Beauty for Ashes is an opportunity for women to be restored to wholeness through Jesus Christ.  We aim to provide women with safe communities worldwide where they can exchange their ashes of isolation, shame and wounds from the past for the crowns of beauty that God promised us in Isaiah 61.  The vision of B4A is to see restored women of all nations...

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Beauty for Ashes is both a program and an event where we will walk women through their story, using the Holy Spirit and community to bring healing to the areas that haven’t yet been brought to the light. Drawing from past experiences we will encourage them to hear from the Holy Spirit about how God wants to redeem the dark parts and give the women a hope and a plan for the future. These seminars will incorporate three major parts. The first being that a woman’s story is powerful, we believe that when a woman comes to share her story that healing will take place as the Holy Spirit...

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Links

Beauty for Ashes   Seth Barnes’ Blog Beauty for Ashes Staff: Christina Barnes    Betty Gomez    Angel Warren    Schuylar Reggi   Chelsea Rae       

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