Reach 4Life Campaign
Through the Reach 4Life program (R4L), Evangelizing Youth Ministries, plans to aggressively challenge youth in our inner city with a program on abstinence, and a challenge to sexual purity.
The program is biblical based and the need is greater than ever (no need to spout statistics I’m sure everyone is aware of). Our main focus will be the city of Baltimore, which for the last few years ranked among the highest in the nation in teen pregnancies, HIV and STD’s,.
This is a program that includes a curriculum about sexual purity; God’s standards for living, how to live free from disease such as STI’s and HIV, and how to impact other young people and peers.
It points’ out that they have a choice; it is a choice between life and good and death and evil. The simple fact is that choosing to have sex outside of the marriage bond and the faithfulness that it represents has now become much more than a choice whose consequences might be pregnancy, a broken heart, or a sexually transmitted disease. It now has become, even in the United States, a decision that has life or death consequences. The Choice is a Choice between Life and Death, Good and Evil.
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers,”
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
We view this campaign as an aid helping our youth and others to see abstinence as one of the greatest gifts they could give to a God who has everything.
