Overcoming Strongholds

At this seminar, you will learn how childhood wounds, abuse, and sin create strongholds that shape how we think, feel, act, and react to life. Learn to overcome strongholds that keep us from flourishing as beloved children of God. Find healing in the Lord and learn how to forgive and be forgiven. Seminar includes:

• Powerful teachings and testimonies
• Opportunities for prayer & worship
• Refreshments & coffee
• Saturday Lunch included

There is no charge for this seminar (donations accepted for cost of food). Women and men 18+ are welcome.

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Email questions to [email protected]. All inquiries are confidential! Sponsored by the new Family Ministry at St. Joe’s.
 

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Testimonies from Past Participants
of Overcoming Strongholds & Living Waters
Overcoming Strongholds is a mini-version of a longer, 20-week program called “Living Waters.” Living Waters is a font of healing for anyone who has struggled with the effects of abuse, addiction, habitual sin, feelings of inadequacy, problems trusting others, broken relationships, issues with anger, fear, confusion, resentment, unforgiveness or unwanted same-sex attraction ... really, anyone who suffers from the effects of the Fall... which is all of us! Below are some testimonies from people who have experience the healing Living Waters/Overcoming Strongholds has to offer. We hope you will consider joining us for the seminar and/or the 20-week course. For more information email Suzie Fazzini or [email protected].


Participant: "John"
I was bullied as a child. It wasn’t just once or twice, but a constant assault at home and at school. My first memory is of being bullied. Even though it subsided when I reached 10th grade, it scarred me. I had this bit of brokenness in me, and I tried a thousand ways to compensate for my wound. It was like I had a broken leg, and all the other muscles in my body tried to compensate for my injury. In a way, I had come to a point where my damage was hardly noticeable. Though my steady job, marriage, and long list of accomplishments disguised the fact that I was still very broken inside, I was forever that bullied kid in my heart. 

“Living Waters” helped me fearlessly examine myself. It put me face to face with Jesus and His unrelenting love and healing. I was led to a deeper relationship with God and a greater trust in him, more than ever before. Its all about Jesus: He has living water, wholeness, love, and mercy waiting for us.

None of us can ever know who we truly are without seeing ourselves through Jesus’s eyes. Consider joining us if you are thirsty for His healing and ready to lay your brokenness at his feet.


Participant: "Sarah"
As an active (convert) member of the church and a happily married wife and mother, I tried very hard to put my past behind me and be grateful for my many blessings. 

As a child, I had experienced sexual and physical abuse. As a teenage runaway, I was sucked into the world of sex and drug trafficking. Certain that in time I would eventually get over it, I did my best to tamp down bouts of sadness and rage.  Because of regular nightmares, I still slept with the lights on well into my adulthood. I was too ashamed to speak of any fear or pain because I didn't want to be weak.

Psalm 34:18 says, "The Lord is near to the broken hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit." With the words and the prayers of the people in this ministry, I was shown the nearness and the healing power of the Lord's love in a whole new way. Everything is different now. I can't thank God enough for the blessings that I've received here!


Participant "Randy"
I came to Living Waters out of curiosity and need. It had done wonders for my wife of 26 years that I could not explain, and did not try. I was just grateful. They had given her a joy in living that neither I nor her 14 kids could have ever given her.  

I had been a 35-year active member of a group of men and women who worked hard to not drink, or get high. I was involved for 20 years in a small crew that sought to emulate St. Francis of Assisi and I had a good job. I had 14 kids, so I was busy. But I was facing retirement and for seven years I talked to anyone who would listen about my need to be with my family, make money, and work for the church.

All my old drug addict insecurities rose to the top. Even years into sobriety I had cheated my wife and kids. My guilt and desire to save the world had hurt the people I loved and as I faced retirement, I could not shake the reality of who I really might be.  So, I entered into Living Waters expecting nothing, but hoping. That hope calmed my fears. I was placed in God’s hands and His direction was slowly revealed to me.  

Now, five years into Living Waters and over four into retirement, I am so grateful that my curiosity and need were met and fulfilled in this beautiful group.


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