After incendiary news about past sexual assaults in regards to our Presidential candidates, the New York Times had an article about Kelly Oxford, a social media powerhouse, as she was called, and her astounding twitter experience. On Friday, October 7, …
AVA (Abuse)
IT IS NOT A SECRET ANYMORE! EVERYONE IS TALKING!
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Written on October 14th, 2016
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
More on Why They Stay
by Kay Marshall Strom
With one vicious punch to his fiancée, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice pounded the issue of domestic violence into our national conscience. We recoiled at the video of him callously dragging her limp body out …
AVA’s Suggestions for the NFL
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Written on September 9th, 2014
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
by Yvonne DeVaughn, AVA Director for the Evangelical Covenant Church
AVA (Advocacy for Victims of Abuse) stands in solidarity against all manner of domestic violence in our communities. We believe that God created women and men in the image of …
Mending the Soul Training is Here
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Written on April 2nd, 2012
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Events, Updates, Women's Issues
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Events, Updates, Women's Issues
AVA and Mending the Soul–a partnership to serve the Church!
NEXT MENDING THE SOUL TRAINING: May 4-5, 2012 on the campus of North Park University, Chicago, Illinois. Registration info HERE.
Through a new partnership with Mending the Soul…
It’s Spring and Everything Is Emerging!
Hi Friends:
With apologies for going dark on you for several weeks now, I want to exult in spring with you for just a bit! If you’re not a Chicagoan, you’ve probably heard what a gorgeous stretch of warm weather …
AVA—It’s International!
Something wonderful happened a few weeks ago. A group of more than 50 Colombian women and men joined together in Bogota for three incredible days of learning about abuse. Pastors, church leaders, and volunteers of every stripe, came with a …
Hold Them in Your Heart
You are terrific intercessors, most of you, I know!
So when I ask you to pray, it’s a tremendous feeling, knowing you take the request seriously.
Last Saturday I went to Stockton, California to participate in the memorial service for …
AVA Advocate Becomes Victim
What sadness we feel as we have learned of the tragic death of Advocacy for Victims of Abuse (AVA) advocate Katy McGehee.
Katy was found dead in her Manteca, California home on Monday of this week; her son, Dawson McGehee …
Travesty in Topeka!
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Written on October 11th, 2011
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Updates
Tags: AVA, domestic violence
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Updates
Tags: AVA, domestic violence
It’s amazing. The city of Topeka, Kansas is moving toward decriminalizing domestic violence. Citing the need for extreme belt-tightening, Shawnee County pushed the prosecution of DV cases off to the city, which is facing its own need to cut costs. …
Un-Connecting is Hard!
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Written on September 27th, 2011
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Events, Human Trafficking, Leadership, Updates
Tags: domestic violence training, leadership development, retreats
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Events, Human Trafficking, Leadership, Updates
Tags: domestic violence training, leadership development, retreats
After connecting so richly at three fantastic retreats with the wonderful women of the Central and Pacific Southwest Conferences, I’m having withdrawal pains. Now I know that in order to experience withdrawal, one must first develop a physical or mental …
