Sometimes a teacher wonders: Do these kids listen to anything we say? I found out last week that one of our Red Hill teenagers, a 15-year-old, is pregnant. Just five months ago she attended our annual Wait4Me concert and pledged to abstain from sex before marriage.
Sadly, young girls in the townships often seek their identity and purpose from men rather than God. An older teenage boy, or maybe a young man in his 20s, will come along and tell her she’s pretty. He promises to provide for her. She feels “loved” and gives him her body. Then she becomes pregnant, he disappears, and now there’s one more fatherless child and one more teenage mother with a bleak future. Not to mention the possible spread of HIV because this man has multiple sexual partners.
But the work must go on. The message must go out. The prayers must go up. Lord, please save these young people from a lifestyle of sexual promiscuity.
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