A Cry For Justice – Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Violence and Abuse in its Midst
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Barbara Roberts is one of the presenters at this training in Domestic Violence and the Church training in Charlotte, North Carolina. [You can invite people using the Facebook page in this link.]
Thank you to Julie Owens and others for organising this event 
Saturday, May 4, 2013
8:30am until 3:30pm in EDT
Johnston Memorial Presbyterian Church, 729 E. 36th Street, Charlotte, NC
Domestic Violence and the Church:
Understanding the Issues & Supporting Victims
PRESENTERS:
Julie Owens, DV survivor; HOPE Violence & Trauma Consultants
Barbara Roberts, A Cry For Justice & Not Under Bondage
Sunya Folayan, The Empowerment Project, Inc.
Schedule
8:30 Welcome & Announcements
8:45 Introductions
9:00 Understanding Domestic Violence – Julie Owens
- • Worldwide Violence against Women
- • Historical & Legal Context of Violence against Women
- • Types of Abuse
- • DV Relationship Dynamics
- • DV Myths & Misconceptions- What is DV & Why does it happen?
- • Profile of an Abuser/Understanding the Abuser
- • Intervention with Abusers/ Why ‘Anger Management’ Doesn’t Stop DV
- • Can a Batterer Change?
10:00 Break
10:15 The Levite’s Concubine: domestic abuse in the Bible – Barb Roberts
11:15 Mistakes Christian Helpers make; Commonly Misused Scriptures – Julie Owens
12:00 Brown bag lunch
12:30 Scriptural dilemmas of the Christian victim; When Neutrality is not neutral; Forgiveness & Repentance; Divorce and Remarriage – Barb Roberts
1:30 What Christian Survivors Need to Hear; Helpful Scriptures – Julie Owens
1:45 Providing Respectful Individualized Victim Support – Sunya Folayan
2:30 Do’s and Don’ts group exercise– Barb Roberts
3:00 Resources for Christian victims & helpers
3:15 Evaluations/Completion certificates
3:30 Dismissal
RSVP julieowens@outlook.com
WHERE: Johnston Memorial Presbyterian Church, 729 E. 36th Street, Charlotte, N.C. 28205
TIME: 8:30AM-3:30 PM
COST: FREE
NOTE: Bring your own brownbag lunch
Certificates of attendance will be provided for those attending the full day. CEUs are not offered for this event
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