Friday, February 26, 2010

Chicas y Muchachos

We are currently doing a series in our High School Ministry called "Chicas y Muchachos". The point of this series to talk about sex. Yep, you read it right; sex. We want to teach our high school about sex and how to wait. See I have worked with students now for almost eight years and the reoccurring theme I hear is the pain and hurt from unwise sexual decisions. The series has been a home run so far (I never played baseball but have always wanted to say that).

The great thing about doing a series on purity is we get the chance to radically be involved in the lives of the students we work with. The adverse side of this is that stuff comes out. I think there are times that I avoid teaching on a topic because I know stuff is going to come out. Like when the hurricane happen in Louisiana the water filled the sewers and stuff came out that no one wanted to deal with; well we have some rad leaders who are prepared to deal with the stuff that comes out!

Here's how the series breaks out:
Week 1: Sex and Love, Love > Sex (Intro week)
Week 2: R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (you gotta respect yourself)
Week 3: The Difference between Pink and Blue
Week 4: Dealing with Lives Hurts
Week 5: I got a Question
Week 6: The Choice of Purity

See the first three weeks of this series we have just talked about sex and how that impacts us and the world we live in (we live in Sin City) and the last three weeks we are going to talk about healing and how to make right choices to avoid the pain of unwise sexual decisions.

5 comments:

Larissa Joy said...

Just a friendly grammar police person doin' a little trolling: should it not be "life's hurts"?

Sara said...

Just wanted to throw this out there...If you ever needed someone to talk about their experience or hurts or consequences or the blessings...Nick and I are your peeps!

Neal Benson said...

Hey Sara,
Maybe we can use your story next year? That would be sweet!

Anonymous said...

Thought I would comment and say neat theme, did you make it for yourself? It's really awesome!

Neal Benson said...

Thank you. I did make the graphic and designed the series flow. I stole the idea of the man I interned under!