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In the fall of 2005, Dawn Penner received a call to form an organization that would provide multi-streamed services for Christian organizations and their leaders. For over twenty years of ministry and professional practice, Dawn Penner has walked alongside hundreds of Christian leaders and organizations. She recognized the need for an organization that restored, refreshed and resourced Christian leaders, intersecting their mental, spiritual, relational and organizational health. It would reach out to pastors, missionaries, executive directors, and presidents, as well as targeting their work teams and provide services to their family members. An organization is limited or freed by the dysfunction and health of its leaders and Dawn sought to build an organization that not only invited others to develop functional structures, godly relationships and effective ministries, but also exemplified the values it tried to instill in others. Healing Streams was founded in January 2006. It was established as a Trust and achieved charitable status in Canada in the same year. Healing Streams has grown and continues to move toward its goal of providing quality professional services that are built on the experience and wisdom of seasoned leaders. Healing Streams vision is to see Christian organizations accomplishing their kingdom purposes through healthy leaders, functional structures, godly relationships and effective ministry. We provide services that restore, refresh and resource Christian leaders and the organizations they serve in Canada and in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. This region includes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. In 2006 Healing Streams responded to an invitation from CSCODI, a Congolese community development organization, to train pastors, government workers and community leaders in how to care for war trauma and rape survivors. A manual was developed in response to requests from CSCODI and seminar participants to provide written resources to assist them in their ministry and an ongoing ministry in eastern Congo in partnership with CSCODI was developed. |
