Hi everyone it's Leslie Ludi host of the Set-A--Part Girl Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Thanks for joining me.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about how to reach today's young women for Christ. I know that many of you like me have a

burden for today's young women because we can see the battle that is raging over

their lives and we desire to reach them with a message of hope.

Quite a few years ago when my husband Eric and I first started in ministry,

I began to get letters and emails from teenage girls and sometimes the things that they would share with me

were really startling. One time I got a letter from a 12-year-old girl who said

Leslie what do I do? My mom is pressuring me to go out and date around and start sleeping around and I'm only 12.

Another time I got a letter from a 14 year old girl who said,

my parents told me I should never get married because if I do I'll only end up

getting a divorce. Around the same time I began to get letters like this. I also

saw a documentary that PBS had done that was following the true story of a group of teenagers from an upper class

suburb near Atlanta. There were about 200 of them and they had to be treated by the

health department for this massive outbreak of syphilis because of extreme

sexual activity that they were involved in without their parents even knowing.

And sometimes girls even as young as 11, 12, and 13 years old were engaged in activities that

were just shocking to the community and shocking to their parents,

almost all of these teenagers were church-going kids.

They were part of a youth group that were growing up in Christian homes

and yet they were living the secret life of perversion that was

leading to great risk to their health and their future. So it really brought home to me

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