Introduction

Manual Overview

BOOK I: Faith Community Curriculum for Clergy and Lay Leaders

BOOK II: Family Violence: Helping Survivors and Abusers
A Manual for Faith Communities

BOOK III: Pastor’s Packet: Family Violence Awareness Materials for Pastors
Violence
   - Definitions
   - Statistics
   - Who is Impacted?
Christian Myths About Abuse
Signs of Abuse
Domestic Violence Test
Why Do People Stay?
Resources for Survivors
   - How Can We Help?
   - Advocators
   - Collaborators
   - Preventors
   - Responders
   - Family Pledge of Nonviolence
   - Kricket’s poem
Worship Service Resources
   - Sermon Themes
   - Scripture Addressing Violence
   - Lectionary Cycles
   - Domestic Abuse in Jewish Life
   - The Darkness of Violence, the   
     Light of God’s Healing Presence
   - Making the Peace Sunday
   - A Litany of Women
     for the Church
   - Living Parable
   - Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
   - Prayers for Worship
   - Bulletin Articles
   - Songs
Education Resources
   - From Violence to Wholeness
   - What the Church Community
     Can Do
Resources

BOOK IV: Curriculum for Laity

Appendix

Book III
Pastor's Packet: Family Violence Awareness Materials for Pastors

Prepared by: Marlene Jezierski, R.N., Violence Prevention Educator & Program Coordinator in cooperation with Lyla Pagels, R.N., B.A., Parish Nurse Coordinator of Mercy & Unity Hospitals.