Last Thursday a local church, Bethlehem Aboriginal Fellowship, hosted the BUG tour (Beautiful, Unique Girl). Check out www.bugirl.com to see more about this ministry. They had a vision to host the group - despite the prohibitive cost and high minimum number of youth required to book the BUG tour. They invited local churches & youth groups, ICYA included, to join with them in this. It was an opportunity that I was excited about, but realized we could only really afford to send a couple of girls to it. A couple weeks before the event, we recieved a call that some donors had stepped forward, agreeing to sponsor girls. They could now attend for $5! With that barrier removed, I ended up taking almost 15 teenage girls to BUG and was impressed and inspired by what went on. Almost 40 girls were there, all from various ministries in the North End. Amanda Falk, a local Christian artist, shared the creation story & how God made people and pronounced his creation "very good". They took time to delve into what that means for us as girls, and read Psalm 139 to emphasize how much God cares about us and thinks he did a good job in creating us! She also gave her personal testimony, about how she found HER value in God, and hosted a private concert just for us! There were also drama, manicures, chocolate fondues & a pajama party theme.
While the event was well-run and a lot of fun, what really struck me was the thirst which the girls seemed to have to HEAR these truths about them. They just soaked it up! They were SO responsive to hearing God's word read to them, and yearned desperately to hear those words - that they are BEAUTIFUL, that they are UNIQUE and that God is crazy about them!
It was both a fun & meaningful event & I'm grateful to Debbie Smit, BAF, the BUG tour girls, and the unknown people that made it possible for so many of us to go!
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