(10/6) Jordan Kologe – BELOVED. Jesus loves you, Jesus loves me. We hear this regularly, but do we believe it? Do we live in the reality of our belovedness? Or, do our own insecurities and outside messages conspire to haunt us with the suspicion that, deep down, we are unlovable? Let’s explore our belovedness as we trust the Holy Spirit to pour out the truth of our belovedness on us.

(10/6) Lori Mateer – FINDING TRUE COMFORT TALKING TO IMMANUEL Life gets going and we often wonder, where can I find true peace, true comfort? Isn’t that what we are all looking for, grasping for in a world that has anything but peace to offer us? Yet there is a place when we sit and quiet ourselves that we feel seen, heard, understood, that someone is glad to be with us in the distress and can do something to help us. In this time we will explore how to find this peace and comfort.

(10/7) Rob Byker – WE DO NOT GRIEVE AS THOSE WITH NO HOPE. “Brothers and sisters we do not want you to… grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again…”(1 Thessalonians 4:13-14b). Christians are not stoics who reject their tears. But neither do we let our tears rule or define us. Instead, we grieve with hope in our Resurrected Lord Jesus. Pastor Rob Byker will share how the Lord transformed his experience of trial — as one burdened to care for a beloved wife through mental illness and terminal cancer while fathering a family and pastoring a church — into a testimony of enduring and everlasting hope.

(10/7) Summer Gross – EARLY ATTACHMENT WOUNDS AND ANXIETY: Summer grew up with high anxiety, learning later in life how her early childhood attachment style developed a tendency to be hyper-vigilant. Now, she teaches others to recognize their own attachment style and how the neuropathways received in their first three years often form a skewed image of the love of their Abba. By discovering the tendencies inherent in their early attachment wounds, and dwelling in God’s love through spiritual practices like Lectio Divina and Ignatian Imaginative Prayer, people can begin to look up and encounter the tenderness of His face always shining towards them.

(10/7) Kim Bagato – WILL I EVER BE ABLE TO TRUST AGAIN? This is a question asked by women who have been betrayed by their husband’s pornography addiction or infidelity. Betrayal is like riding in the passenger seat of a car on a road trip and you’re suddenly ejected out of the vehicle and into the air. You land and become part of the roadside rubble. You’re stunned, hurt, burning with pain. You lie there in the sweltering sun wondering what happened to your life. Kim has spent the last decade walking alongside women who’ve been betrayed. She invites them to trust God, themselves and others again. She emphasizes that healing happens in community and encourages women to seek support from others who are trustworthy.

(10/7) Ken Robertson – LGBTQ+ AND SEEKING CHRIST’S POWER FOR BIBLICAL SEXUAL ETHIC. The church’s endless debates about LGBTQ+ ideology, belonging, and cultural expression often ignore an important reality: LGBTQ+ persons are already within our churches, seeking Christ’s power to live according to a biblical sexual ethic. What can we learn from these brothers and sisters who are finding healing in Christ? How might they lead the church in being agents of healing to this community? And could those within the church who don’t identify as LGBTQ+ even learn to be discipled by them, welcoming them to expose the false gospels and hidden idols that lay just beneath the surface of our best intentions? As we walk together, there is opportunity to discover the gospel that’s been there all along. Join us as Father Ken offers the fruits of 10 years of pastoral ministry in this community, walking more deeply into the healing we all so desperately need.

(10/7) Bishop Ken Ross will celebrate the closing Eucharist for Healing Journey 2023.

Brian Kam is the worship leader for Healing Journey 2023 : “I am excited to be planning and playing the music for Healing Journey 2023. Healing Journey has been a time of renewal and strengthening in different ways for my journey as a father and husband. It has helped to remind me of the healing power of Christ physically, emotionally, and spiritually. In HJ2023, we will use song to remind us of the healing power of our Lord and Savior. As a people, we remember where our help comes from by looking to the mountains and remembering how our God has saved His people in the past and continues to save us now.”