LIVING WATERS: RESTORING SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS | KAIROS GLOBAL | JUNE 2024

Author: Dino Raj Paul

Intro: Dino Raj Paul shares the backstory to the Living Waters training that took place in Bangalore in March 2024.

It was January 2023 when the Jesus Youth India National Pro-Life ministry sat for a consultation with Manoj Sunny, Formation Director, JY International, regarding the future vision for the ministry. It was there that Manoj raised one of the challenging areas that needed focus – LGBTQ. He mentioned how important it was to have a pastoral approach to people struggling with these issues, as well as to help and guide them in a Catholic way. He mentioned Desert Streams, a healing ministry in the US, who are quite effective as well as established in this area. He had visited their office in Kansas City and requested them to come to India to train the Jesus Youth movement. Around that time, the pro-life ministry had also been contemplating something similar and this was an opportunity opened for us to improve our way of approach in dealing with various aspects of LGBTQ. 

(The pro-life ministry has always been able to empower and convince people from logical, scientific as well as theological dimensions on how various anti-life agendas are ruining our lives and our need to embrace a holy and chaste life according to God’s will. Only by leading a life according to God’s will can we enjoy true freedom and peace. However we were struggling to help people with easy and simple techniques that could provide them healing and deliverance from these issues. That’s where we embraced Unbound and Living Waters’ teachings and began promoting them across JY circles for implementation.)

In a few weeks, by mid-February 2023, Manoj informed us about an upcoming Living Waters training (Desert Stream ministries’ initiative to help heal people from sexual and relationship brokenness) in Thailand. So three of us from the JY National Pro-life team, Esmin Thayana Phils, Dr Mammen P Cherian and myself travelled to Thailand to attend this. Our goal was to see what we could learn for our ministry and to help others; however Esmin came for a deep healing from some of her childhood traumas which were still impacting her.  

The training was held in a forest resort near the Cambodia border, called Ubon Ratchathani. Surprisingly for us this was an ecumenical group where many participants and leaders were from non-Catholic denominations. The training, worship, every bit of it was just mind blowing and we were in awe of what we were seeing and experiencing during those five intense days. All three of us received healing in different hidden areas of our past, especially Esmin. She experienced such amazing deep healing from the Lord and the conviction that her life was restored in Christ. 

During the training we got the opportunity to interact with the founder and head of Desert Streams Ministries, Andrew Comiskey as well as his deputy Abigail Foard. Based on our request they agreed to come down to India to train Jesus Youth during March 2024. We were so amazed to learn that Andrew had been leading an active homosexual lifestyle during his adolescence and was later healed and restored by Jesus. He is now a very powerful instrument of God helping heal people struggling in areas related to LGBTQ as well as sexual and relationship brokenness. A converted Catholic, Andrew is today married and leads a peaceful life with his grandchildren in the US. Being in the pro-life ministry for many years, I was so amazed at Andrew’s approach to help people who are broken, with so much conviction yet in a non-judgemental attitude, full of love and compassion for the person.   

It was the result of the effort and prayers of many people that, finally, in March 2024 Jesus Youth organised its first ever Living Waters training in Bangalore, India. We had 63 participants from across India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Qatar. We had 25 Living Waters leaders who came from different parts of the world to Bangalore to make this dream come true for us. 

The training from Day 1 was amazing and people started experiencing deep healing and deliverance from many of their past as well as current issues, especially in the areas of sexual and relationship brokenness. We bought around 40 boxes of tissue which we used to wipe tears of people pouring out during the sharing and healing services. Every participant was placed in a same gender small group of around 5 people with a trained Living Waters leader, and based on the sessions of that day, a very deep and intimate sharing took place in every group with prayers of healing. Many received deep healing from years of brokenness in different areas they had been struggling with. The teaching concepts and dynamics of Living Waters training are quite unique and powerful. This is probably the best training I have attended in my life thus far and I am so inspired to embrace this as a personal mission. The beauty is, once you experience this deep healing, the method and dynamics are so simple and effective and can be shared to help others also.

Personally, I recommend that should an opportunity to attend a Living Waters training present itself, nobody should miss it. It will be a game changer for your life, which will directly impact in a very positive way your spiritual life, family life and ministry life. 

For further details or to attend a Living Waters training, please feel free to contact me (jydinopaul@gmail.com or +91 9886042540) or Esmin Thayana Phils (esmin.thayana95@gmail.com or +91 6361004926).

Ave Maria!

Dino Raj Paul is an IT engineer, currently living in Bangalore with his wife, mother and four kids. He is the coordinator of JY India pro-life ministry.

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Daughter of a Living, Loving God

I lived my life believing the lie that I was a victim and my identity was that of a victim until I attended Living Waters. Despite attending multiple healing retreats and being active in JY for years, I struggled in my marital sexuality due to the wounds from my past abuses. Finally it was in the Living Waters training that I received profound healing from my wounds when Jesus poured out his Precious Blood into my heart. This restored the physical intimacy with my spouse in my married life. Today I have come to understand that I have a Father who fights in heaven and I am a daughter of a living God. I would like to tell you all that your wound is not your fault, but healing is your responsibility.

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From Confusion about to Loving my Femininity

I was brought up in a family where women were treated without respect and dignity and I grew up witnessing and experiencing domestic violence. I was exposed to sexual abuse and this created deep fear in me, being a woman and I could not understand the role of a woman or me in this world. All this created serious hatred towards men and women. I started to fantasise about romantic relationships with women, where I found myself in a much safer space. As these fantasies grew and with exposure to the LGBTQ community, I was more confused about my identity as a woman. 

Encounter with Jesus Youth and growing in faith started my healing process. However my homosexual fantasies kept growing and I found myself leading a divided life internally. A spiritual counselling session helped me to identify my wounds. After three months of fasting and prayer I ended up in the Living Waters training. Through Living Waters I received complete healing from hatred towards men, women and myself; healing from the confusion of my identity and role in this world and also from my homosexual fantasies. 

Living Waters helped me have a deeper relationship with the Lord; today I love being a woman and I see my purpose in this world.