West Huntsville has a teen girls’ Purity Day only once every four years. It’s a day that chock full of encouragement to teen girls; encouragement to live now for the security and happiness of their future lives. What they can absorb in just a few hours truly can make the difference between regret and fulfillment for years down the road. The speaker is Hannah Colley Giselbach. The date is August 2nd. The text is the Word of God. There is no charge for the event and if your group would like free housing on Friday night before the day’s activities, that’s available, too. Where else can you take teens for instruction and KNOW that the manual is flawless? I mean it has all the right answers for the problems that challenge those sweet teen sisters who are looking for the answers that the world around them just doesn’t offer. Hannah plans to give personal, practical and, most importantly, truthful information for maintaining purity of mind and body…a tough goal in 21st century teen America. She will challenge the minds of the girls on topics like sexual morality, their media use, and modesty in demeanor and dress.
I hope you will bring your daughters and the girls between the ages of twelve and twenty in your congregation. I hope you’ll bring their moms and their older mentors. There will be singing, fellowship, lunch, and materials available for later use. Your girls will leave with more confidence to say “no” to the world and “yes” to the Word.
I hope that, even if you can’t come, you will join me in praying for Alissa Clarke and the teen girls at West Huntsville as they work and plan, for their mothers who will also be working, and for every heart of every girl who attends. I hope you will help us get the word out to all who might be able to come. We would love to have many churches represented, but please encourage those in your community who may not belong to the Lord’s church to come with you, too. I cannot think of a better venue for evangelism.
Finally, at the risk of being too open with you, let me say that i am thinking of one young woman, as I write, who came very close to making a huge mistake in her teen years. She stated “ I was about to relinquish everything I knew was good and pure in a moment of passion. But I thought, in that moment, of something Hannah had written in her book “GIFTS”, and it gave me the courage to say ‘Wait, I have changed my mind. I can get out of this situation and live without regret.’” And so she did. She is now the wife of a faithful minister. This is a true story. It is not because of Hannah that she found the strength to choose wisely at that crossroads in her life. It is because of the power of the Word. But it takes time in the Word to build that resolve. I hope you can take some time in the Word on August 2nd. Register here: www.purity.westhuntsville.org. Feel free to Facebook me with any questions you may have.
