PeaceWorks Live 2025: The Domestic Abuse Intervention Training Conference | Winfield Baptist Church
Cultural Experiences
Who is the intended audience for PeaceWorks Live 2025?
This year’s conference is intended to serve both professional and lay helpers who are engaged in gospel-centered domestic abuse intervention ministry. Past attendees have included licensed and lay biblical counselors, social workers, pastors, elders, small group leaders, advocates, survivors, and family members of those experiencing or perpetrating abuse. Whether you are a veteran domestic abuse interventionist or you are in the beginning stages understanding this topic, we hope you will join us.
PeaceWorks Live is more than a training event. It's a gathering for people helpers who are committed to responding to domestic abuse with confidence in the sufficiency of Scripture, humble dependence on the Holy Spirit, safety and support for victims, and accountability and repentance opportunities for perpetrators. This is a time for these helpers to reflect on what it means to faithfully respond to these cases with Christ-exalting, gospel-centered solutions and to be reminded that they are not alone in this difficult work.
A Word to Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse:
If you are a perpetrator of domestic abuse in need of resources to aid in your repentance process, please understand PeaceWorks Live is not intended to serve you in this way. Instead, we ask that you please visit www.menofpeace.org to view the resources PeaceWorks has designed specifically for abusive men desiring change.
A Word to Victims of Domestic Abuse:
If you are currently living under the weight of abuse and in need of support as you pursue safety and sanity, please visit www.menofpeace.org/for-spouses to view a list of recommended victim care resources. If you are a survivor of domestic abuse desiring to engage in domestic abuse intervention ministry yourself, we recommend that, if possible, you not attend PeaceWorks Live alone but that you bring with you a trusted friend who can provide you with support throughout the event as the conference content may be triggering for survivors.
Worship & Plenary Sessions
All attendees, regardless of which educational track they register for (see below), will come together throughout the conference for four combined plenary sessions.
Plenary #1 -
Chris Moles
Plenary #2 -
Greg Wilson
Plenary #3 -
Elyse Fitzpatrick
Plenary #4 -
Rachael Denhollander
Plenary session descriptions COMING SOON.
On Friday night of the conference, attendees will also come together for a special night of corporate lament. We hope you will join us as we bring our collective grief and sorrow to the Lord and put our trust in Him as the Redeemer who rescues, restores, and rules over all things.
Worship will be led by
Adam Westlake
.
Educational Tracks
PeaceWorks Live 2025 will feature two educational tracks designed to equip helpers in two key aspects of domestic abuse intervention ministry. Each track will consist of seven training sessions.
Attendees will register for one of these two educational tracks. During the event, attendees must stay in the track for which they registered. To switch tracks, please contact PeaceWorks (revchrismoles.assist@gmail.com) by August 22, 2025. Please be aware that seating is limited in each track and we may not be able to accommodate your requested change.
Stewarding Survivor Stories Track (175 Spots Available)
As helpers, we are given the opportunity to hear and hold survivor stories. This is a great responsibility. How we receive and respond to these stories matters, not only for the survivors we serve, but for the families, churches, and communities they represent. May we be found faithful.
This brand new track (led by
Elyse Fitzpatrick
,
Rachael Denhollander
, and
Melissa Affolter
) will highlight seven common desires survivors have and prepare attendees to steward survivor stories with care and compassion.
Session #1 - Validation:
I want my story to matter.
Session #2 - Redemption:
I want my story to be useful.
Session #3 - Justice:
I want my story to be vindicated.
Session #4 - Protection:
I want my story to not be repeated.
Session #5 - Resolution:
I want my story to make sense.
Session #6 - Presence:
I want my story to be handled with care.
Session #7 - Restoration:
I want my story to have a happy ending.
Stewarding Survivor Stories Track session descriptions COMING SOON.
Men of Peace Facilitator Track (75 Spots Available)
This newly expanded track (led by
Chris Moles
and
Greg Wilson
) will highlight three approaches to perpetrator intervention: coaching, counseling, and groups - with the majority of the training focused on facilitating Men of Peace groups.
Session #1 - Assessing for Risk & Openness to Change
Session #2 - Contributive, Not Causative: Trauma-Informed Biblical Care for Perpetrators
Session #3 - Building Teams
Session #4 - Coaching Perpetrators
Session #5 - Counseling Perpetrators
Session #6 - Men of Peace Groups: The Whys & the Basics
Session #7 - Co-Facilitating Men of Peace Groups
CLICK HERE
to view the Men of Peace Facilitator Track session descriptions.
All PeaceWorks Live 202
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attendees (both in-person and via livestream) will receive
an event attendee PDF packet (which will include all available session notes/outlines).
Please Note: Our attendees will only receive the available session PDF notes/outlines for the combined plenary sessions and the educational track they have registered for. We will not offer printed notes.
Conference Recordings Available for Pre-Order
PeaceWorks Live 2025 attendees can pre-order PeaceWorks Live 2025 conference recordings for only $40 (a 60% discount) when bundled with an in-person or livestream PeaceWorks Live 2025 ticket purchase at check-out. Otherwise, the conference recordings will be available to the public for purchase at full price ($100) after the conference has concluded.
PeaceWorks Live 2025 conference recordings will include
audio/video of the four combined Plenary Sessions,
audio/video of the seven Stewarding Survivor Stories Track sessions, and
corresponding session notes and transcripts.
Any in-person PeaceWorks Live 2025 attendees that purchase the PeaceWorks Live 2025 conference recordings will also receive access to the conference livestream and will have access to the unedited livestream videos for one week after the conference concludes.
There will be a period of time after the conference concludes during which the conference recordings will be edited and formatted. As soon as they are available we will contact pre-order purchasers via email with directions on how to access conference recordings on our Podia page. Podia (https://chrismoles.podia.com/) is our online course and webinar hosting site.
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