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Saving Herself Saved Him
By on September 19, 2008
Jace teaches the Love, Sex and Relationships LaunchPad curriculum in Boitsebelo. Here’s one of her favorite testimonies from what has already happened in the 5 weeks we’ve been in class.
So far in LaunchPad I have loved connecting with my students and have been enjoying teaching them as well. One girl in particular has stuck out to me: Maditaba. Maditaba has come to every class so far, and after the second class she came up to me and told me about a situation going on with her and her boyfriend. She explained that as a Christian, she wanted to save herself for marriage, but always felt like if she said no to her boyfriend, that he and everyone else in her village would look at her differently. We kept talking, and she told me that she hasn’t given into him yet, but that she doesn’t want their relationship to end because she loves him very much.
I encouraged her to talk to him about her feelings, being open in telling him why it’s so important to her to wait. I also told her that I would love to meet him and talk to the two of them together, and that I wanted him to hear what we were teaching in class as well. At the beginning of the fourth class she came running up to me hand in hand with a boy she introduced as her boyfriend. I shook his hand and we talked for a few minutes, leaving with the promise of more conversations to come.
She thanked me several times that day, and I realized just how much this class will affect both of their lives. I smiled as the impact of the lives that will change finally settled in my heart. It makes me want to become better in teaching as well as put forth more passion and grow stronger in the things I’m teaching. God’s working through every person in every class, whether it’s obvious or not, and I’m so thankful for that.
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danielle says:
that is just…… wow, amazing & wonderful don’t seem to capture what that is.
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Amy Joy says:
Awesome thing to teach huh Jacer.
Its hard some times but man is it important!
I love you and I am very very proud and excited for you.
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Lin says:
It is fascinating to see the clarity which these children see the truth. Hear it, believe it, do it.
I think even more that knowledge you have changed their lives by this statement in your blog…
“I shook his hand and we talked for a few minutes, leaving with the promise of more conversations to come.”
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Jace (Intern) says:
God is totally on the move in the kids at the Boitsebelo Launch pad class, seeing the girl and her boyfriend just really trying to have to have a pure Christian relationship is unbelievable..i can’t wait to see what the rest of the term holds for not only these two teenagers but every teenager in Qwa-Qwa and all over South Africa. LP is changing lives. it’s honor to teach. Amy it is an awesome thing to teach..:)!
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alece says:
amen!
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Amy Joy says:
=) Im jealous of Jace! (but only because I truely know what I am missing)
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Alece says:
come home soon, amy joy!
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Jace (Intern) says:
oo amy jo how much i love you and i have to agree with Alece..COME HOME!!
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