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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno County pastors gathered to larn however to respond to home unit reports Wednesday.
Local instrumentality enforcement agencies received much than 9,000 home unit calls successful 2024, and the Marjaree Mason Center says they request much assemblage partners to assistance them trim those calls.
They held a seminar connected home unit for section religion leaders and pastors connected Wednesday.
“It’s overwhelming conscionable to beryllium reminded of statistics,” Clovis Evangelical Free Pastor Pablo Cachon said.
They accidental Fresno County gets much home unit calls per capita than anyplace other successful the state. Kern County takes 2nd place.
Cachon wants to beryllium portion of the solution.
“God did not mean for matrimony to beryllium arsenic specified – surviving done home violence,” Cachon said. “God didn't make that. And so, unfortunately, what we would telephone misdeed and quality brokenness has contributed a batch to it.”
He sat among galore section pastors connected Wednesday, and the Marjaree Mason Center says those ministry partnerships are vital.
“We cognize that churches are considered harmless spaces, particularly for idiosyncratic who mightiness beryllium experiencing immoderate benignant of trauma or, unfortunately, maltreatment successful their relationship,” Ashlee Wolf with the Marjaree Mason Center said.
She says 1 communal crushed victims bash not permission their abusers is that divorcement violates their spiritual beliefs.
Cachon says the contented is nuanced, but urges victims to fto spell of shame and question help.
“Our Western caput has been accustomed to deliberation successful the individualistic league, but the Bible is communal, truthful God doesn't telephone you to beryllium isolated. He called you to beryllium portion of a family,” Cachon said.
He hopes different section pastors volition articulation the concern arsenic well.
They tin find acquisition resources connected home unit done the Marjaree Mason Center website.
