A Seminar on the Perils of Pornography. and the Mercies of God

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1 A Seminar on the Perils of Pornography 8000 West River Road Yorktown, IN (765) Sunday School: 9 AM Worship Service: 10:30 AM and the Mercies of God

2 Seminar schedule: Friday Night: Porn S#ll Kills, Jesus S#ll Saves" - Josh Holowell "Out of the Shadow...Finding Hope in the Crisis" - Lisa Ferguson, Licensed Clinical AddicVons Counselor, MA, CSAT, LCAC, CADAC II TesVmony: Michael and KrisVn Cary, Living Truth Ministry Q&A - Panel Men s and Women s Q&A Saturday Morning: Pulling at Pornography s Roots: Dealing with the Problem of Lust - Pastor Brian Allred, New Life Presbyterian Church "Light in Darkness Ministry- Reaching VicVms in Our Own Backyard"- Carolyn Knight, D.Min RedempVon from AddicVon and Idolatry - Mike Spencer, Director of the Biblical Counseling Center of Central Indiana Q&A - Panel Men s and Women s Q&A Recommended Resources: Internet: hbp://fighbhenewdrug.org hbp://purehope.net hbp:// hbp://xxxchurch.com Books: Ren#ng Lacy, Linda Smith and Cindy Coloma Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from Sexual and Rela#onal Brokenness, Harvest USA Sexual Sanity for Men: Re- crea#ng Your Mind in a Crazy Culture, David White Faithful and True: Sexual Integrity in a Fallen World, Mark Laaser and Eli Machen Pure Desire: How One Man s Triumph Can Help Others Break Free From Sexual Tempta#on, Ted Roberts and Steve Arterburn Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addic#on, Patrick Carnes

3 NOTES: Porn Still Kills, Jesus Still Saves" Josh Holowell: Josh and His wife Whitney worked for Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) at Ball State University aher graduavng from Ball State with degrees in Architecture in In June of 2014, they leh campus ministry and Josh joined the full- Vme staff at New Life Presbyterian Church as a Church PlanVng ApprenVce. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Biblical Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary and pursuing ordinavon to plant a mulv- cultural and reformed gospel preaching church in downtown Muncie in the next few years. Josh and Whitney live in Muncie with their 3 children.

4 "Out of the Shadow...Finding Hope in the Crisis" Lisa Ferguson, MA, LCAC, CSAT, CADAC II, is a Licensed Clinical AddicVons Counselor who specializes in helping individuals and families recover from the devastavon of sexual addicvon, chemical addicvon and alcoholism. She has also been a pastoral counselor since 1996, and has focused on the area of addicvons counseling since She is navonally cervfied in Sexual AddicVons Therapy (CSAT) with Patrick Carnes Gentle Path Program through the InternaVonal InsVtute for Trauma and AddicVons Professionals (IITAP). In addivon to her expervse in counseling, she has over a decade of experience teaching at the university level. She is a member of the Indiana Counselors AssociaVon for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and the American AssociaVon of ChrisVan Counselors. She holds an MA from Purdue University, and lives in the Muncie area with her husband of over thirty years. Redemption from Addiction and Idolatry Mike Spencer: Director of the Biblical Counseling Center of Central Indiana Mike has been the director since of the Biblical Counseling Center of Central Indiana since He has been married to his wife Kathy for 30 years and has 5 children, two adopted on 12/12/13. Mike is also a Ruling Elder at New City Church, PCA in Indianapolis.

5 "Light in Darkness Ministry- Reaching Victims in Our Own Backyard" Carolyn Knight, Light in Darkness Ministry Carolyn received a call to missionary service at age thirteen. In 1993 she leh for East Africa and worked in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda for the next ten years doing pioneer evangelism and church planvng. She helped to plant forty churches. Carolyn also founded four church planvng/pastor training insvtutes in order to convnue the mulvplicavon into the future. Aher returning to the United States, Carolyn finished her Doctorate of Ministry and began teaching full- Vme at Wesley College in the Missions Department and in the Department of Counseling. She also founded a ministry called, Light in Darkness. Teams of female evangelists are equipped to go into strip clubs to befriend, evangelize, and rescue women in the sex industry. Prayer Teams cover the Evangelists. Project Teams do holiday gihs and host events to demonstrate the love of God. Legal teams work with police and city officials. This ministry is growing and now has teams working in five states. Carolyn joined One Mission Society three years ago. She is a facilitator for church planvng movements with the Every Community for Christ Department (ECC), and a Cross Cultural Trainer for all new missionaries at OMS. Carolyn is currently assigned to Bangladesh, Singapore, and Malaysia. She also convnues to do evangelism in the US, forming teams of ChrisVan women to be lights in the darkest places of our cives. Testimony: PORN KILLS, Jesus Saves Michael and Kris@n Cary, Living Truth Ministry KrisVn graduated from Indiana University and worked in College Campus Ministry for 15 years unvl God called her into sexual integrity ministry in Michael has a background in computer programming and also spent 5 years working in the music industry. He is passionate about his ministry calling to use new and effecvve ways of understanding and addressing sexual integrity. Michael & KrisVn are now on staff with Living Truth - a ministry dedicated to helping people recover from sexual sin and it s damaging effects.

6 NOTES: Pulling at Pornography s Roots: Dealing with the Problem of Lust Pastor Brian Allred, New Life Presbyterian Church Brian abended Mid- America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana, and graduated in Aher graduavon, he served as a church planter at Trinity PCA in DeMobe, Indiana and as adjunct faculty at Mid- America teaching New Testament Greek. Brian was called to New Life in September 2009 to serve as an associate pastor, the posivon he currently holds. Brian and his wife Stacey live in Yorktown with their two children, Aaron and Miriam.