It was the best weekend of my life. For the first time in 20 years, I was able to share my grief, my guilt, my anger. I was able to mourn the loss of my baby.
Rachel’s Vineyard is a safe place to renew and rebuild your life after experiencing the trauma of abortion. The healing weekends offer you a supportive, confidential and non-judgemental environment where women and men can deal with painful post-abortive emotions.
Rachel’s Vineyard can help you experience God’s love and compassion on a profound level. It creates a place where men and women can share, often for the first time, their deepest feelings about abortion.
Rachel’s Vineyard is is a place of reconciliation. Participants, who have often experienced deep anger toward themselves or others, experience forgiveness. Peace is found. Lives are restored. A sense of hope and meaning for the future is discovered.
Words could never be enough to explain the gratitude that I feel for having the opportunity to attend a Rachel’s Vineyard weekend.
What is Rachel’s Vineyard?
Rachel’s Vineyard weekends, for healing after abortion, are offered throughout the year in South Africa. The weekend is a chance to get away from all the daily pressures of work and family – read more
Questions Answered
If you are thinking about coming on a healing weekend, you are likely to have lots of anxieties and probably as many questions. Here are some of the more common ones that you might have – read more
I was very scared and apprehensive about coming to Rachel’s Vineyard and having to share my story. It was the best experience of my life!
I had given up on myself, and thought that I had nothing else to offer anyone in life. I had tried all types of counseling and therapy and nothing worked for me.
I got the peace that only God could give me.