Healing a wounded heart

“Wounded Healers. It made a lot of spiritual sense to me: ‘You are wounded so that you can become a healer through your wounds (which shall have been scarred then),” said Pastor Nomsebenzi Malele from the Wounded Healer’s Women’s Ministry (TWHWM). The ministry will hold a conference next month for women in Protea Glen.

“This is an inter-denominational story-telling ministry in which Christians from different walks of life come together and share their real life stories. The emphasis is not so much on stories themselves but on victories behind those stories,” she said.

Wounded Healers ministry is a ministry whose focus is on emotional healing. Challenges are a part of life but the secret is in how one responds to challenges.

Wounded Healers is a ministry that says there’s life and purpose after that divorce, rape, loss of a loved one, unemployment etc.

“Don’t be silent about your story because through your story (wounds) somebody can be healed”, said Malele the founder of the ministry.

Growing up in Mpumalanga, Malele accepted Jesus as her personal saviour when she was in high school.
From that tender stage of her life, she loved teaching, and that love led her to embark on the journey of teaching the word of God.

As the founder and having been a Pastor for 16 years, Malele explained the conception of the upcoming conference;

“There are times in life when you want to hear somebody who has gone through what you are going through.
“In as much as there is a bible, there are moments when you are so bruised emotionally that surely if somebody who was once bruised like you are (at the moment), can tell his/her story, you can be surely encouraged.

“What will encourage you is to know that you are not the only one and that if somebody made it, you will also make it.”

Due to the name the ministry has, it seems suggestive to residents that it only caters to one specific gender group, however, Malele tried to explain how the name came about.

“Women from different walks of life came and shared their stories and one day I heard the soft voice whispering’ Wounded Healers’ It was like I was coming out of a deep sleep.”

There will be a relaunch of the ministry’s name next year Wounded Healers Ministry (TWHM). According to Malele, this is attributed to the fact that even though its initial conceptions was to organise women, its initiation was in 2010, but two years later men were starting to attend the conferences.

“The spirit of the Lord explained to me how much everyone is wounded irrespective of sex, age, colour of the skin etc. It is because of this that in March this year, the ministry hosted Mother & Son. It is the sons who were sharing their stories.”

This conference is part and parcel of a variety of conferences that the ministry holds on an annual basis. Residents of Protea Glen are invited to attend and to invite other communities within Soweto, as it’s the first time such a conference will be hosted by the ministry in Soweto.

Avid Christians can expect lots of emotional healing and emancipation according to the pastor.

“The rewards or benefits that may entice residents to attend the conference is an emotional healing which will be experienced through real life testimonies.”

With an expectancy of 2000 attendees, Pastor Malele said, “Nothing is too hard for the Lord. There is God’s purpose through that divorce, there is life after that painful experience, there is hope beyond that rejection.

Above all, I am saying come and see God literally giving you beauty for your ashes.”

The conference will take place on August 26 at the Living Waters Assembly in Protea North at 8:30 am.

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