Becca Arnold, one of our interns in the office last year, is currently in Jeffreys Bay helping lead our FYM team.  She just took part of Beat the Drum, where they go into the local schools and teach about sexual purity.  Here is her latest blog entry after returning from this ministry.  This helps you to see what the team is facing and how important the ministry they are doing in Jeffreys really is.

Becca's Entry:

Godfrey and my class had about 20 members and their stories would stun you. The second

day we asked the students to write their stories down and give them to Francis. Francis is a character from the movie (of course they were going to Godfrey and I). They did.

When I read them I was shocked, upset, confused. I took all the weight of the letters on me. You see at the bottom aof almost everyone was the words- Help Me Please. I didn't know how to help them I didn't know what even to say to them. I couldn't figure out why I was born in America and these kids were born in Africa. Why am I so blessed?

With a lot of prayer and encouragement from the team I was able to let go of the weight and trust the Lord with it. To know that its not me to help those kids but that it's the Lord. So I trust him to comfort and give hope to our class. Here are a few of their stories. Please join me in prayer for them.

Dear Francis,

   The most hurtful thing happened to me. I lost my virginity at an early age. That was not my dream; my dream was to wait till I get married. That's the worst thing that happened to my life losing my virginity and to someone I don't even love.

 As you can see these kids have been thru a lot. Please join me in prayer that they will come to all know Christ and know of his hope and peace. So many in my class are just hopeless. They don't feel that they have anything to live for. Which is not the truth? So Godfrey and I spent the week telling them of the HOPE that Christ offers. Also pray that they will abstain. I was unable to teach the last day because of scheduling mix up and was never able to see where they all stand. Even if they make that decision it will be a hard one, so many of their friends and people they know pressure them into it. There is also the enemy. He is not going to want them to stop having sex. He doesn't want Aids to stop spreading. So Again I ask you to pray for the kids of Johnson School 11^th grade classroom C8.