We are women, strong women, with our own stories to tell.
We are not a paint-by-numbers group. We are all ages, coming from different places, with unique histories. Like so many women, many of us have abuse in our pasts. Some of that abuse has been as bad as abuse can get. Some of it is was less violent, but still left a haunting, nagging pain that is impossible to shake without help. Like so many women, we have needed time and counsel to heal. Like so many women, we have found that healing in Jesus Christ and the gospel preached in His Church. For us, that healing has specifically happened at Christ Church of Moscow, Idaho. For us, God has used our pastor, Douglas Wilson, as a faithful minister of His grace. We are thankful for our community and blessed beyond measure.
Why We’re Anonymous
We aren’t. Not to our pastor and families and closest friends. They know these stories, and they know our names. But they also know that these stories do not define us. Abusers do not get to assign us our fundamental identities. Christ does that. His covenant does that. Our children and husbands and families do that. We are anonymous here because we do not want those who attack our church to side with our abusers and attempt to brand us with our wounds, to know us only by our old injuries. If we were naming our abusers, levying accusations, then we would name ourselves as well. But we aren’t. We are simply women saying thank you to a pastor whose work for us and many others has been denied, because it has been unseen.