Broken Women in Austria Find Healing
"Hurting people often hurt others. We are in need of forgiveness and we also need to forgive. If we have women who are passionately devoted to the things of Christ and not the things of themselves, then we will have a transformed Church."
(Austria)—Mission Network News reports that Lisa Meyers, working with Greater Europe Mission, has been ministering to bitter and broken women in Austria since 1992.
About five years ago, according to the report, Meyers discovered Open Hearts Ministries ("Befreit Leben" or "Hope for the Wounded" in Austrian); a ministry changing the lives of many women not only in Austria, but also in Germany and Switzerland. (GEM photo)
"They are angry, they're bitter, or they are often depressed, and they just can't seem to get out of it," said Meyers. "There's a principle that hurt people hurt people, and that's what I just saw in Austria a lot. I think that is where I'm seeing real spiritual growth...when people are realizing that we are hurt but are also hurting others. We are in need of forgiveness, and we also need to forgive."
"Austrian women are very shy," she added,"and they do not take on leadership responsibility very easily because they're shy, not because they're passive. [But we are] seeing wounded women wanting to lead these groups, basically because of the principle that we are comforted, and so we can comfort others."
