From the Directors

by Johna Hale, Executive Director

We are so grateful and encouraged by the positive feedback that we have received from the attendees at the L.I.F.E. Training and Certification conference. The encouragement definitely comes from hearing from many individuals how L.I.F.E. groups have been such a life changing experience. One mother came from Florida at the request of her son, who is in a L.I.F.E. Group in another state. She stood up and gave a testimony on how his L.I.F.E. Group has helped save her son's marriage and his life. We heard testimony after testimony with similar same praise reports. We give all the honor and glory to the Lord.

I personally started the conference Friday evening with my own story. I talked about the pain and shame of my past , having been a sex addict myself and the spouse of several sex addicts; and how I felt compelled to leave the church because it wasn't a safe place which I was convinced wouldn't accept me. The Lord has used that shame and pain from the past to provide that safe place in the church for others, through the L.I.F.E. groups. For this, I am truly grateful.

Sue and Larry, the primary presenters, gave an enormous amount of information. In fact, we were not able to cover all the subject matters on some of the topics. The L.I.F.E. Ministry team has since met and gone over the feedback forms, and we are planning an even more in-depth training event next year. To accomplish this, the training will be a full two days, with break-out workshops using experienced L.I.F.E. team members as instructors. We are exploring the use of two training tracks: one for existing facilitators and another for folks seeking overall recovery knowledge. We are planning on such training becoming an annual event.

During the coming year, Sue will make training available in person to any church or organization that would like to benefit from her expertise. The post conference evaluations confirmed her skill and dedication as a teacher and speaker. She is an incredible gift to the ministry, to help us build community and train facilitators for even more effective groups. Several attended who weren't facilitators and told us of their enthusiasm to learn more about sexual addiction and sponsorship, among many other valuable tools.

We have many exciting new ways of communicating on our new website which will be available soon. The Lord certainly is blessing L.I.F.E. with many ways to reach God's hurting and struggling people; including a program to translate L.I.F.E. Guides into Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese, and thus be available to reach roughly half the world. We are humbled and eternally grateful to all who are helping make this possible.

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