Grace Point! July 2015 | Page 34

for and about today’s youth from Timothy Ministries-The True Son & accompanying blog, The Maiden’s Portion Cut to the Quick In the spring of 2012, where we were ministering at an emerging skate church, my husband would walk the perimeter of the grounds praying for the youth. In the group of teens that came daily after school to skate, there were quite a few that needed to hear that Jesus loved them. For the time we were there, we labored in a field of white, ready to harvest. There was also a home school program run in the morning hours fours days a week by the pastor's mother. One particular mother in the program had two teenage daughters, a preteen daughter, and a six year old son. It was plain that something was not quite right about the family, and soon enough we saw what it was. One morning, when the oldest daughter was taking too long to solve a math problem, the mother let loose a tirade of insults, so loud that everyone could hear her. Some of us went into a room close by and prayed for this woman while another interrupted the math lesson and talked privately with her. On many occasions, when my husband would walk the property any pray, he would find wads of paper towels~lots of them~with brown stains. We reported our findings to the leadership, but all were puzzled as to what it could be. It wasn't until one day, soon after the math incident, that my husband was walking and praying that he found 'fresh' paper towels and realized the brown stains had been dried blood. When the ugly truth came out, both of the older girls were being physically and verbally abused by their mother. At that point, social workers came into the picture, and we lost contact with the family, but it was obvious that the cutting was an attempt to deal with the pain inflicted by the mother. 34 photo courtesy of Kiran Foster via Flickr | License | read more at The Maiden's Portion