just arrived into the beautifully misty streets of darjeeling for a weekend retreat with my team. what a lovely time its been. cool weather that leaves me aching for a fireplace and another mug of hot coffee or minty hot chocolate (like my mom has at home). this magical mysterious place where worlds collide. white faces trailing along asia searching for a taste of adventure or the way back to themselves...or both.
lovely old nepali faced men wearing their tweade-eske jackets and leaning on their wooden canes that pully them up the hills to their homes. i wander at the people. enjoy the creases in their smiles. and watch as they descend past the nook and cranny breakfast house i found myself in this morning. sipping black coffee and rereading john. i wander and i think and i enjoy. silent moments in the mountains. as i myself try to rediscover who it is i am.
and as i help my team peer through the mist i hope we all discover a little bit more about community and how to love one another as we ourselves map our own trails of asia.
much love from the mountains.
i'll sip some tea in your honor today.
4 comments:
guess i can't skype with you if you're in darjeeling!
may your time be full and good - restful, restorative, filling...and fun!
Beth,
this is something i think you may be interested in. Also, the mountains sound cool.
Love,
jws
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** FAAST releases international curriculum
Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST) releases
"Hands that Heal: International Curriculum to Train Caregivers
of Trafficking Survivors." Materials a result of collaboration
of more than 40 professionals. AG World Missions Project Rescue
Director Beth Grant and team from Project Rescue lead program's
development. More information about FAAST found at
http://www.faastinternational.org/. To learn more about Project
Rescue, see http://www.ProjectRescue.com/.
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** FAAST RELEASES INTERNATIONAL CURRICULUM
On Wednesday, September 12, 2007, at the National Press Club's First
Amendment Room in Washington, D.C., the Faith Alliance Against
Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST) released and hosted a briefing about
"Hands that Heal: International Curriculum to Train Caregivers of
Trafficking Survivors."
FAAST representatives state that sex trafficking is modern-day
slavery in which people are exploited and sold in the commercial sex
industry. Holistic care is necessary for traumatized survivors to
find healing from their abuse and to learn the skills needed to
succeed in beginning a new life.
The FAAST curriculum, 'Hands that Heal,' is a comprehensive,
Christian curriculum to train global caregivers who are frontline
providers of aftercare for women, children and men that have been
trafficked into the commercial sex industry.
The curriculum is the result of a collaboration among more than 40
academicians and field practitioners from diverse backgrounds and
organizations that address the needs of trafficked individuals.
"The curriculum is an integration of best practice with the
component of faith in the love and transforming power of Jesus
Christ," says Dr. Beth Grant, Assemblies of God World Missions
Project Rescue director and editor of the FAAST curriculum. "From
our years of experience with Project Rescue, without aftercare that
introduces survivors to the only One who can bring new life,
survivors of sexual slavery have little hope for true rescue and a
new beginning."
FAAST also developed "Hands that Heal" as a tool to inform and
inspire churches, communities, organizations and individuals around
the world to engage in the battle against the injustice of human
trafficking and to help equip them to provide transformational care
to survivors.
There are two editions of "Hands that Heal." The Academic Edition is
designed as an undergraduate or graduate course to introduce future
caregivers to the wide-ranging needs of survivors of sex
trafficking, as well as to enhance the skills of current caregivers.
The Community-Based Edition utilizes a participatory training
approach that can be used at the local level by churches,
organizations and local community groups around the world.
FAAST's members include Project Rescue International - AG World
Missions, The Salvation Army U.S. National Headquarters, The
Salvation Army World Service Office, World Hope International and
World Relief.
Project Rescue was the lead organization in developing the FAAST
curriculum as Grant directed the curriculum process, which included
more than 40 contributors. Grant and Cindy Hudlin, also of Project
Rescue, served as editors.
"Our Project Rescue team undertook the curriculum project as a way
of blessing not only survivors of trafficking around the world,"
Grant says, "but as a way to strengthen the work of the Kingdom
around the world - across denominations, organizations and
nationalities."
To learn more about the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and
Trafficking, visit the FAAST Web site at
http://www.faastinternational.org/. To learn more about Project
Rescue, see http://www.ProjectRescue.com/ .
--AG News
hey john, thanks, in fact i know beth and work along side folks in project rescue. small world i suppose. thanks for the info.
love,
beth
praying your time is refreshing...we miss you.
Jen
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