Seasons Change International began as "Seasons Change: For Ladies Only" - a 6-month project in 1996, in Tampa, FL, and a ministry to hurting women and girls. In her travels as Director of Community Relations for WellCare HMO, Inc., Psalmist and Worship Leader, and Motivational Speaker, Selia Darlene Bervine came across women and girls who had been wounded and left for spiritual and emotional death. The 6-month project provided free, two-hour sessions which included music ministry, teaching, drama, the reading of three of her personal journals, and provision of resources helpful to the emotional healing of each woman & girl. 

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Offered to Women at Without Walls International Church (under then the leadership of Pastors Paula and Randy White), Selia provided Seasons Change: For Ladies Only to fellow leaders, and other women within the congregation. The ministry grew, and  Selia was asked to provide this same ministry to COED audiences, and began supporting the healing and restoration of both males and females in churches, at retreats, and other meetings, expanding the experiences from homes, and females only. 

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In 2001, when Selia moved to Virginia Beach to attend Regent University, Seasons Change moved to International status when after 911, a Pastor, who was also a Student, lost his Mother. She went to be with the Lord and he was unable - like many foreign Students - to leave the US and return. Seasons Change planned and directed a Memorial Service for the Pastor's Mother - allowing him to appropriately grieve (though long distance), and hold a service and repass, at the same time of his 12 Brothers and Sisters, in the country of Sudan. With the full support of the University, and the School of Divinity, in particular, the Pastor was surrounded by One Body of Believers, who helped him to process, appropriately, the devastating loss of his Mother, though unable to experience saying goodbye, in the comforting arms of his Brothers, Sisters, and extended family, who lived over 6,548 miles away. This, began a new focus of ministering to individuals transitioning to Glory, and supporting Loved Ones of Others by planning and facilitating Funeral Services. 

 

Seasons Change International expanded, yet again, during times of crisis in Florida, Pennsylvania, and wherever help was needed, through Project Reach and Community Education. Attention on Police Officers and their Districts, and Communities in grief and strife, Seasons Change International provides prayer, comfort, nourishment and intervention in support of families, law officials, and more. Appropriate supplies, and development of teams for prayer and other support is achieved to increase the potential for peace, comfort, stability and provision. 

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Endorsed, in 2001, by Dr. Ann L. Stanford, (Retired) US Consul General, and Professor of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, Seasons Change International continues to provide grassroots, on the ground, hands on support, to families and individuals, in crisis and experiencing loss. Long distance support is also experienced through prayer, coordination of services and times of comfort to individuals and families. Helping people to appropriately grieve, heal, forgive and stand in troubling times, continues to be our mandate today.  

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