Three months weekly Seminar on Emotional Healing and Parenting has been done from February to May 2008. 70 people attended it : Pastors, Deacons, Parents, Social service workers (Rehab centers and prisons), Medical Doctors, both christians and non christians. This is the most receptive group and fruitful work we’ve ever had since 1991. Lives have been transformed : some have been healed from rejection and deep seated anger, others found their self esteem restored, many discovered their childhood wounds and got to know their identity in Christ, faithful servants of God have experienced emotional healing, and their distorted image of God (an old mean man with a long stick, a vindictive God, a perfectionist boss…) got changed.

After each healing process, they got closer to God : they have personal relationship and an intimate friendship with God. One mother who had never meaningfully touched her children (which is not a Malagasy culture) learnt to touch them on a regular basis and this affects their school positively. Other parents decided to affirm their children and as a result their self esteem has gone high. Workaholic parents became aware of the imminent danger of not spending quality time with their children. Married couples have been saved from divorce. As a result, some couples have shared with us their hunger for Marriage Therapy to strengthen their couple’s life. Some people, when their felt need have been met, gave their life to Jesus

Mini-discipleship : 30 people who have done the seminar attended the 2 months weekly spiritual follow up with BALM OF SOUL. This happened a couple of weeks after the seminar. Subjects that were taught were like :
“Once saved, saved forever”
How to hear God’s voice?
Learning obedience
Led by the Spirit
Dying to self
the Power of Prayer
“Temptation, Trials and Pruning”.

Feedback after the classes : “I really need spiritual follow up to help me keep the emotional healing and restoration that I went through”, “we have experienced a close relationship with God and a spiritual growth as individual and as a couple. This has a positive impact on our family life”, “God brought me closer to Him through the teachings and revelation after the class. This broke my rational thinking about being a christian : He wants me to be not to do, to accept His love not to perform ”,
“ We got to learn how to hear God’s voice and to know His calling in our life as a married couple”.