Services – 7 Bells Refuge

The role and mission of Wendy Lowry inside 7 Bells is determined by where she is most
needed at each moment. Wendy’s life was in a state of sustained crisis before she met Jesus near death in 1991, so she has a great sensitivity to the level of crisis a person is in when they reach out to her. She strives to offer the next step and clearest, most simple path to relief.
Wendy gets an average of 15 serious requests a day for some type of crisis intervention. She responds according to urgency and whether she can assist or refer to another source better equipped to help. She feels her gifting is the person who feels stuck spiritually or emotionally and wants help trying to remove the barrier between themselves and God. The desired outcome is a closer and more intimate walk with Jesus Christ.

Wendy has spent many years studying and operating in deep prayer work for her own freedom and has continued to learn and grow as she meets more complicated and seemingly hopeless situations. Prayer ministry is her top priority. The greater amount of her time is given to meeting those in spiritual crisis and helping them towards freedom.

Wendy also has great experience with men and women inside the correctional system, psych wards, treatment centers, sexual assaults, domestic issues, a variety of addiction issues, and hopelessness in general. She coaches many calls and situations related to these areas nearly daily. She is a “go to” person for many due to her length of time and consistent experience in these very difficult areas.

Wendy also leases 3 homes to provide safe housing for women who need to live outside of the city in order to stay steady in life. She and the Ministers that God brings to 7 Bells invest significant time in helping the women grow and prosper in every way. These women have to work to pay rent and all additional expenses are provided through gracious donors. Wendy remains very hands on and involved daily in the affairs of the 7 Bells women’s houses.

Wendy also spends 2 afternoons a week at Metro Hope Ministries in downtown Minneapolis. They graciously provide her an office to do prayer work with their clients and others as needed in the City of Minneapolis.
She has been speaking weekly “live” on our 7 Bells Facebook page. She has a passion to
share the gospel of Jesus Christ and to provide clarity on issues that are frequently brought to her that she feels need a voice.
We would love to have you consider becoming a partner of 7 Bells. We have an outside team operating our finances and keeping us accountable. Integrity is a top priority for us at all levels in this ministry.
Most importantly, we need intercessors, volunteers and to offer assistance to you if we are able. We desire to serve and bless as we are able.

Crisis Coaching / Sobriety Support

Many in recovery do well inside the predictability of a structured program; but, when expected to create and manage your own stability, it feels overbearing.

7 Bells will help you with:

Unhealed areas.
These become easy triggers for relapse and usually originate from broken relationships and unresolved emotional issues.
Relapse shame.
The shame from relapse is very intense and can cause you to totally unravel. When you seek support from us we assess, and minimize shame damage by quickly finding your fastest recovery possible with minimal loss of ground.
Distance.
You sometimes need to remove yourself from where you are and go to, a safe place to gain/regain stability. Those at 7 Bells are compassionate and appropriately skilled, having been there before, and will walk with you and keep you supported and stable.

Need support?

Community

What happens when a person leaves the protected and predictable lives they had in a rehab program? For many it’s like being jettisoned into a vast, murky space where they can’t find a landing place into which they “fit”.

7 Bells is helping those in recovery build faith-based sober communities similar to ones like AA. Those coming out of faith programs want — and need — uplifting, fun events and group activities.

Those of us in the variety of stages of recovery don’t want to feel sorted out by who is sober and who isn’t. We want it to be a safe platform. 7 Bells is eager to engage people and use our specific and amazing gifts in healthy, entertaining ways.

Art & Craft groups
Faith support communities
Bonfires
Bible studies
Safe social media support communities

If everyone participates, even a little, we can create a common area where many can come and feel understood, safe and “normal”. Everyone has something worthwhile to bring to that space.

Our ultimate goal is to:

continuously post new scheduled events on the website
be a clearinghouse for new events and activity ideas
provide support for new community ventures

Need a safe community?

Prayer

The most important piece for peace

God promises that in Christ I am “a new creation; the old is gone; the new is come”. But I (Wendy) realized early in my sobriety that I was not able to be that “new creation” who everyone in the church wanted me to be.

I was deeply traumatized and damaged by my sin. I needed more help than was available or known to anyone around me at that time (see my full story). Through those years, and various seasons of crisis, I was introduced to people that offered me “prayer ministry” to help me heal from my past. Some of it was helpful. Some of it further traumatized me. Some of it did nothing good or bad, but felt really invasive. After experiencing nearly every form of prayer intervention, from every phase of crisis, I’ve developed what I’ve found to be “best practices” and I have carefully implemented them into the various 7 Bells services offered. I am not saying this is best for everyone, but it has helped many.

My priority in life is to help others as quickly as possible get free from:

generational sin
your own sin
sins of others against you

I want others to understand the authority of Jesus (which He died to give us) and how to use it like He intended. I want to help people understand and break down the strongholds, soul ties, vows and judgments that plague their lives. Since gaining this knowledge and walking in Jesus’ Biblical authority, my life is amazing. Jesus wants the same for your life.

A stronghold is a faulty thinking pattern based on lies and deception. Deception is one of the primary weapons of the devil, because it is the building blocks for a stronghold. What strongholds can do is cause us to think in ways which block us from receiving God’s best.

The Bible doesn’t use the expression “soul tie”, but that’s what is meant when it talks about souls being “knit together”, becoming “one flesh”. A soul tie can serve many functions, but in its simplest form, it ties two souls together in the spiritual realm.

Inner vows and “bitterroot judgments” are responses to hurts, unfulfilled expectations, or unmet needs. They can be defined as decisions or determinations designed by us when we are children and set into our hearts as templates or “tracks to follow”, until they are broken.

We have a trained core prayer team who will walk with you through the deliverance process.

Need prayer?