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 …
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
Time and the Healing of Wounds
Note: Recently AVA Director Yvonne DeVaughn was in residence at Covenant Village of Colorado. She taught about Domestic Violence and Childhood Sexual Abuse. She preached, shared, connected, ministered, and listened. And listened. AVA desires to connect similarly with each of …
Why Women Ministries?
January 7, 2013
Why Women Ministries?
It is a good question. We should be asking it—and not just to justify our existence, but to discern how we create vision and move forward.
I’ve considered this question often since you called …
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 …
Miss Representation and You
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Written on October 21st, 2011
Filed under: Updates, Women's Issues
Tags: Gender Equality, Women's Issues
Filed under: Updates, Women's Issues
Tags: Gender Equality, Women's Issues
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
–Psalm 139:13-14
You are so precious and …
Triennial Site Inspection and North Pacific Conference!
Hey! I’ve traveled quite a bit in the last three weeks, so I’ve seen many of you. I returned a week ago from a two-part journey, and I am still getting re-oriented.
I went to the amazing Town and Country …
