NGU Skyliner

Molly Price
Staff Writer

Many students today deal with issues from their past. Whether those issues stem from alcoholism, abusive parents, drugs or scarring relationships, it is often very hard to know how to deal with the topics from the past and learn to live in the present. North Greenville is offering a Bible study to those students who would like to start a healing process.

“College is a great time to get healing so that the wounds of childhood do not continue to manifest themselves on into marriage and parenting and the workplace,” said Ruth McWhite, director of women’s ministry.

The Bible study is called “Making Peace with Your Past” and is open to all students. Meetings are on Thursday afternoons at 4:30 in the Averyt-Wood rooms 201 and 206.

The study will begin with two small groups with 12 people to each group and will expand in group number if needed. The only limitations within each group are that siblings and significant others cannot be in the same group. The two groups will be led by Jean McManus and Wilson Nelson.

The cost required for the Bible study is for the book Making Peace with Your Past by Tim Sledge which costs $7.50; however, NGU is offering to pay for half the cost.

“This is a self-help group in which group members help one another by talking in a safe, loving environment,” writes Tim Sledge.

“This course will help adults who grew up in a home in which one of the family members had emotional needs so strong that they disrupted the development of healthy relationships. Participants will understand problems from the past and identify and remove emotional, psychological, and spiritual barriers to fellowship with God,” LifewayStores.com says. The study and book also received a 100% positive review on the Web site.

Lorry Green, women’s housing coordinator, feels that this study is essential to the betterment of the NGU campus.

“Through all my years of dealing with young ladies who have had issues with their past problems I know that there are quite a number of students who have many issues with their past. They don’t know how to deal with them and need to learn how to open their hearts to God’s healing,” said Green.

Green strongly encourages students to seize this opportunity to work through any concerns they have with their past.

The study groups will continue their weekly meetings until Nov. 20th.

Tags: Fall 2008, Vol. 108 Fall - Issue 3

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