The Hastings Family

Hello all,

I am writing a new post to ask you all to pray especially for the teens that attend our childcare centers and schools here in Guatemala City. Yesterday, we brought them all together for the afternoon for a special conference. There was about 400 of them here at our Verbena school.

An organization called "Juven-Fami" exists here in Guatemala to teach young people Christian principles about life issues. They are best known for their seminars on sexual purity and that is the one that they conducted here for our teens yesterday. Several presenters spent three hours teaching the teens about the biblical basis for sexual purity as well as the risks and consequences of sexual activity outside of the marriage union. They talked about everything from the media's influence on sexuality to sexually transmitted diseases to abortion.

At the end of the seminar, students were offered a diploma/committment form and they could choose to sign it making a public profession of their committment to sexual purity before God. While some chose not to sign, many of the teens did.

Please pray for our teens as they receive follow-up counseling in this area from their Bible teachers and project directors.