Hidden Wounds offers hope. Hope that as a parent you don't need to choose between your faith and your child. A safe place where you can bring all your doubts, fears, and questions to God and share your experience with other parents walking a similar journey. It is a place where you can meet other parents and process your experience in a safe, spiritually nurturing environment.
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Somewhere in your journey, you encountered Jesus, and your faith became your own. You met the love of your life, got married, and started a family. You found a community of believers, started serving God, and developed close relationships as you struggled through life’s complexities together.
And then it all came to a screeching halt. Your child, whom you love more than life itself, shared that they were gay. Suddenly a flood of questions explodes in your head. How did this happen? Is this my fault? What will my friends and family think? What will my church think? May my child still have a relationship with God? May I?
You feel you cannot safely give voice to these questions in your church, not even in your small group or Bible class who have been like family for years. You feel alone, struggling with fear and doubts. You find yourself grieving over what this might mean for your child’s future. You may feel alone and alienated - even from God.
There is Hope. Hidden Wounds provides a safe place for parents of LGBQT+ children of any age to start picking up the pieces.
A place to start is a weekend retreat where you will find a community of other moms and dads on the same journey. A retreat that offers hope that you don’t have to choose between your faith and your child. In a weekend environment at a beautiful facility right here in Michigan, find an atmosphere of safety and be introduced to parents from all over who like you are seeking a place of understanding and support.
Scroll down to Parent Resources below, select the RETREAT INFORMATION link, and take that step toward healing.
“I want a reason for the way things have to be. I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me.” Train Calling All Angels. https://youtu.be/TaG9SDxwPBg?si=Lrygm0aieQXLLqun
Empathy is such a powerful thing. Sympathy not so much. But empathy, when you meet someone and they go, “Oh, I know!” and you feel they do know. Or hear a line from a song that connects, like the one above. There is something about knowing that you’re not the only one wondering, you’re not the only one hurting, you’re not the only one gripped by fear. There is something about encountering someone else who felt and experienced exactly what you are feeling, and they were able to put words around it maybe in a way that you are not.
When your child came out you may have felt you had no resources, tools, or even a reference of where to begin. You don’t even have the vocabulary to know how to express the questions still rolling around in your heart.
Come to a Hidden Wounds Retreat where you will find an atmosphere of safety and be introduced to parents from all over who are similarly situated, seeking a place of understanding and support.
Have you ever been invited to something, and thought, “Oh, I don’t want to go,” but you went anyway and something amazing happened? Later, while reflecting on that event, you thought, “Oh my goodness, what if I hadn’t gone!” You were just so close to having missed out on something epic.
We realize you might be wrestling with the issue of getting help for yourself emotionally and spiritually while dealing with your child’s recent revelation. You may have a multitude of reasons why it’s unreasonable to attend a retreat for parents of LGBTQ children. It’s going to cost too much; I don’t have the time; I don’t have the emotional energy; people are going to judge me; it’s not going to work out timewise...We’re just asking that you consider joining us. Ask God if it’s something you’re supposed to do.
Committing to attend a weekend retreat offers hope that as a parent of a gay child, you don’t need to choose between your faith and your child. You’ll find an atmosphere of safety and be introduced to other parents who are similarly situated and seeking a place of understanding and support.
You won’t regret taking this next step toward hope.
Hidden Wounds offers individual life coaching or care groups where you can meet other parents and process your experience in a safe, spiritually nurturing environment. You may be feeling isolated and struggling with doubts, fear, and questions you don't even know how to put into words.
Hidden Wounds in partnership with PeacePrints offers retreats in a weekend environment. It is a setting where you can begin to process your child's coming out. Feelings associated with the discovery of a child's sexuality can be debilitating for some parents. Having those feelings validated and being provided a safe place to express them is key to moving past the pain.
PeacePrints, a division of CenterPeace, has been offering retreats for parents of LGBTQ children of any age in the southern part of the United States for over 15 years. Hidden Wounds is partnering with PeacePrints to help bring these retreats to Michigan and the Midwestern United States.
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We're always looking for new partners to collaborate with on projects and events. If your organization shares our values and mission, let's work together to make a positive impact in the Midwest.
Contact us and let's find ways we can work together.
We can't do this work without you! CenterPeace, PeacePrints, and Hidden Wounds are completely reliant on donors like you. CenterPeace is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that individual donors sustain. Donations to this effort, to be a tax-deductible contribution, need to be made through their website or mailed to CenterPeace, PO Box 497554 Garland, TX 75049.
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