AfterCHOICE is a one-day symposium designed to educate, equip and encourage those who are in a position to break the cycle of silence and misinformation in our community and to facilitate healing for men, women, and families wounded by abortion and desperate for a voice.
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"Making Our Churches Healing Communities For Those Wounded by Abortion"
David C. Reardon, PhD, Director of the Elliot Institute
and
"Trauma, PTSD, and God's Healing Power"
Hani R. Khouzam, MD, MPH, FAPA
Dr. Reardon, biomedical ethicist, researcher, and director of the Elliot Institute, is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on the aftereffects of abortion on women, a field in which he has specialized since 1983. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Aborted Women, Silent No More. Written in 1987, it has become the best-selling book on abortion’s impact on women and has been called “the most powerful book ever written on abortion.”
The Jericho Plan: Breaking Down the Walls That Prevent Post-Abortion Healing is Dr. Reardon's resource book for post-abortion healing, sermon guide,srategy for reaching out with God's love, forgiveness, and wholeness to those wounded by abortion. For more information and/or a free downloadable church leaders' kit and book go to www.afterabortion.org, click on Church Awareness Project.
Dr. Khouzam, Medical Director of Chemical Dependency Treatment Program for VAMC Fresno, is well-respected as a champion of the value of the spiritual component in the healing of PTSD. Not only has he written of this in Emergency Psychiatry Handbook, but as a popular speaker, he also illustrates this from his personal and professional experience.
Saturday,
November 5th, 2011
9:00am - 4:00pm (lunch included)
First Christian Church
1023 N. Chinowth
Visalia, CA
Registration:$30/ person or $25 each/Group Rate (4 or more). The registration fee covers all sessions, materials and resource packet, morning and afternoon snacks, beverages, and lunch.
Check back for 2012's brochure, schedule,
and registration form.
Contact our office @ (559) 732-5000 to register now.*
*Sponsorships are also available! For $100, your church or organization will be listed on the program as a co-sponsor and your head pastor will attend at no additional cost.*
