‘Facing our fears will set us free’: Finding healing after an abortion
Take a look inside the world’s largest post-abortion healing ministry
Abortion can be physically and emotionally devastating for women who undergo it, and traumatic for men and women involved in the decision. In 1993, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and licensed professional counselor Theresa Burke began Rachel’s Vineyard, the world’s largest post-abortion healing ministry.
Rachel’s Vineyard
Retreats Rachel’s Vineyard is a safe place to renew, rebuild and redeem hearts broken by abortion. Retreats are held in over 375 locations. They offer you a supportive, confidential and non-judgmental environment where women and men can express, release and reconcile painful post-abortive emotions to begin the process of restoration, renewal and healing.
Men
“Lumina’s Entering Canaan men’s retreat enabled me to confront the reality of what I had done many years ago. At the end of the retreat, the facts had not changed, but I had. A recurring nightmare of more than 30 years, in which the police kept arresting me for a murder I couldn’t remember, suddenly…
