Christians as First Responders to Domestic Violence Project

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The goal of the Project is to spread awareness, education, and resources to the local churches regarding the needs  and spiritual concerns of abuse victims and how to intervene to end the perpetuation of abuse, to pull resources and organize services to adequately address our community’s, our states, our countries epidemic. In 2007 our Murrieta community of 100,000 had 3 murders, all were as a result of DV. 100% of these families came from churches in our community. The number of Domestic Violence deaths is steadily increasing. The Christian community needs to become equipped to deal with those who turn to them for help and support.   The church community in the Inland Empire has the ability to impact these rates and the other destructive patterns that result from abuse.  Diane Stelling States "Abuse is often the root cause for many of the destructive behaviors in our society - alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual promiscuity, eating disorders, and cutting, to name a few. And the root cause of a lifelong cycle of self-hatred for many abuse victims is their inability to reconcile their shame and guilt before God."  Through spreading resources and educating church staff, leadership, counseling departments of churches, and women’s and men’s ministries we can equip our churches to fulfill the purpose of the body of Christ in caring for and relieving the oppressed. The goal of the project is to raise funds to get 100 kits to the churches in Riverside County by April of 2008, the one year aniversary of the death of Sadie Finney.  

 
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke