Today was probably the toughest most emotional day of ministry so far. It would happen on the last few days we have left of ministry. This week our lesson plan was of sexuality. What my teaching crew, Extreme Discipleship, decided was to separate the boys and the girls and have it become a question and answer type of day. That way the girls and boys would feel comfortable asking whatever they wanted. The first school we went to went well, of course like any school things always come up like school performances but we just went with it and we taught exactly who God wanted us to teach.
The second portion of the day was off to another school, which is natural for us to visit 2-3 schools in one day. This teaching portion would be more of counseling sessions in which in this particular classroom they’ve have out of the 20 girls 14 of them have had thoughts or attempted suicide before. That is an ugly fact anywhere in the world but much harder in a town where the resources aren’t as easily available as there are in a larger more urban city.
We split up in pairs each with their own Spanish interpreter, Erin and I were a teamJ and boy did we get some tough situations. The girls at this school were not shy or timid about pouring out their guts to us like so many others at other school were. These girls were so thirsty for someone to listen to what was weighing down their hearts. I was eager, anxious, nervous, and ready to take on their weight. I’m not going to get into specifics because we promised the girls we were a safe place, that whatever was said would stay in that room, but there were cases from family problems, gossip at school, sex, parental problems, rape, and simple girl talk. Today I met some of the strongest girls I’ve ever met. These girls have struggled with many problems that girls back home have to struggle with but these girls finally had someone to tell them to, just someone who would listen and not judge and just love on them.
No it’s not fair, yes it’s upsetting, yes it’s disgusting, no I can’t change what they’ve been through or their environment, I can’t change their families or their problems, their lacks or their past. I don’t have a supernatural power. I don’t have a degree in counseling to appropriately help each girl and their situation. What I have is a super natural Holy Spirit and a God that never fails. I have all that everyone needs, the only One that can Truly Heal and Redeem.
