Terebinth Refuge Holding Rise for Hope Breakfast In September

(KNSI) – Terebinth Refuge’s annual Rise For Hope breakfast fundraiser is less than a month away.

The woman’s shelter takes victims of human trafficking and helps them recover, learn necessary life skills, and eventually graduate to a normal life. Founder CeCe Terlouw-Kvistad tells KNSI News trafficking stories are tragic, but empowering. One of those will be featured during the breakfast.

“We have an amazing speaker. Her name is Sula Lael, and she is a person who’s come out of trafficking and has a very powerful testimony of her life and how she has turned her pain into helping other survivors.”

Terlouw-Kvistad adds the event is a chance to inform people about the great work done at the women’s shelter. “Our hope and our goal is to see them through our program into a life of independence and stability. And, so, that involves healing in four areas, and we call that our holistic model of healing in body, mind, soul and spirit.”

She defines body as being in a safe place with a nurse available to examine them and help them heal physically. Mind is the mental health aspect of recovery. They can meet with survivors, go to group therapy, and there are specialized programs that use dogs and horses to help them find peace.

Soul refers to what makes them unique as a person. Are they interested in going back to school? What hobbies do they enjoy? How do they maximize their talents and abilities? Spirit is the chance to use religion to help along the way. Terlouw-Kvistad says the therapy is a long-term process.

Tickets can be purchased at the Terebinth Refuge website. Doors will open for the event at 7:00 a.m. at the Park Event Center in Waite Park. The meal is served at 7:30 and everything is wrapped up by 9:00.

___