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The Impact of Sexual Abuse and How God’s Grace Heals and Transforms Lives

 |  Ellen Mary Dykas
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Sexual abuse is a pervasive and dark reality in our broken world, affecting more women than we’d ever realize. The effects of sexual abuse penetrate a woman’s heart and shape her beliefs, emotions, and views of God, relationships, and sexuality. Jesus Christ came “to proclaim good news to the poor and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners” (Isaiah 61:1). With a focus on the good gospel news of salvation in Christ as the foundation, this workshop helps explain how sexual abuse breaks the hearts and lives of women, and how God’s people can effectively receive and minister his healing grace.

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Ellen Mary Dykas (MA, Covenant Theological Seminary) is the director of equipping for ministry to women for Harvest USA, a national organization committed to Christ-centered discipleship and church equipping regarding issues of sexuality and gender. She has authored several Harvest USA minibooks, discipleship curriculum, including Jesus and Your Unwanted Journey: Wives Finding Comfort After Sexual Betrayal. Ellen holds a graduate certificate in biblical counseling from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF).