Intertribal Life Newspaper -

VANCOUVER, BC—Rising Above recently held their 20th Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia and it was a great success. Reports of God’s healing power evident in many lives, “setting them free from deep wounds and bondages of the past.”

According to a letter from Terry Martin, Director of Operations and Event Manager for Rising Above, “the team of Rising Above speakers, most of them First Nations, addressed the issues of sexual abuse and residential school experience head on, acknowledging the reality of the pain and wrongdoing and describing the impact.”

Martin writes...