We held an on-line mentoring session a few evenings ago. It was the first we (Liz, Anthea and Darrell) had held for some time, and, do you know, it was great fun! That’s not to suggest that we didn’t think it would be, it’s more to say that as the Sozo for Couples family grows so does our enjoyment as we’re joined by folk from around the world.
This meeting was no exception. It was lovely to see Maureen and Andy from near Philadelphia, Annette in South Africa, Jacqui in New Zealand, Paty and Paula in Mexico, and to be joined by our lovely UK team and those who we met on our recent trip to Shore Life Church in Toms River, New Jersey, truly an international family! There was a tinge of sadness though as we recognised the absence of the SfC team in Ukraine, Nykolai, Sasha and Sveitlana. Please continue to pray for them and for their country.
Other than updating those on-line with news of both our Mexico trip in May and to New Jersey in July we were also able to tell them of our plans to update and revise the Sozo for Couples manual. Those of you involved with Sozo know that things constantly evolve in this ministry. Yvonne Martinez’s teach on trauma has had a radical impact on the way we look at childhood trauma, as has the thought that any bad memory that has lasted through to adulthood can be considered as a potential trauma and sozoed as such. We want our manual to reflect these developments, as well as to contain what we call our “Going Deeper” tools. We’re constantly learning how to offer guests greater levels of freedom, adding to the well of questions we have for Holy Spirit to pull out of as we work with Him, and we want to reflect this learning in the manual.
There’s another aspect too. We’ve always talked about Sozo for Couples as being applicable to any relational breakdown, not just for married couples. We have two sources to thank for this, one is Steve de Silva and Financial Sozo, which has always been applicable to individuals, couples and groups. The other is Tammi Kaufmann in Delaware, who sparked our thinking on Relational Sozo by telling us how she had used SfC on her mother and aunt, to great effect! Although we’ve talked about Relational Sozo it hasn’t been mentioned in the manual…it will be in future!
As ever we’re open to invitations to your church! We’d love to run a marriage retreat for you or train a SfC team, and if we can visit more than one church on a trip then expenses can be shared, so why not get in touch and let us know if that’s of interest? There’s no commitment!