100% PURITY

When I left Nejapa, El Salvador in August of 2009 on the way to the airport I told Rachel that I was concerned about the teenage pregnancy rate of the country and how the girls that I had just cared for for the past two months would make it without becoming another statistic.  It seemed as though those who did were in the minority.  How do you help change something that seems to be a part of a culture for generations? 

I made plans to come back and hopefully share God's Word about purity with those girls and the girls in the community.  What I didn't know was that about 6 months later, God would call me to make a two year commitment to helping direct the home administratively. 

Now that the busyness of those transitions have settled I was recently able to sort through a collection of things I brought from home a year and a half ago.  I came across five books that I had bought in order to teach on God's call for purity for girls.  I suddenly remembered how motivated I was before to share this material with as many girls as I could.

This week is week 5 of the group study that developed at my house on Thursday afternoons.  I am so pleased by how it all turned out.  I asked the three oldest girls in our children's home if they wanted to read this book with me while we eat sweet bread and drink coffee.  All of them were open to it and every week they check in with me several times to make sure we are going to do it again on Thursday.

We are studying God's word on how to live pure in all areas of our lives.  I am impressed by the openness of the girls to express their opinions, questions and stories.  I thought they would be closed minded and maybe just laugh and giggle over some of the material but it has been the opposite.  We have talked about some uncomfortable subjects but when I know that I get a chance to share truth with them, it's a seed that will grow and hopefully multiply to all those who know them. 

I am so proud of these girls.  They are the same girls that I took care of 3 summers ago and to see how much they have grown to be wonderful girls who love and know Jesus makes my heart content.  God has really gripped the lives of these girls and has called them His own.  I can see the fruits of His labor in their lives and I'm just glad I get a chance to be a part of it!