Worth the Wait Education

Through Scott and White Hospital’s education program, we seek to engage, educate, and empower students to make healthy sexual, life affirming choices.  Grace House Ministries began offering Worth the Wait in 2004. This free service to the community is conducted through public and private schools where we teach the ten-day program through school health classes.  Issues addressed to help teens in the class are:

• Emotional needs
• Communication skills
• Peer pressure
• Legal issues
• Sexual Transmitted Diseases/Infections
• Pregnancy issues
• High risk behaviors – alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.
• Healthy futures – goal setting, dating and marriage relationships all encouraging kids that “sex is awesome but it is meant for marriage.”

This interactive, educational experience gives teens the opportunity to make healthier choices for a better future.  Grace House teaches the program in several schools:

• Aledo
• Brock
• Graford
• Peaster
• Perrin-Whitt
• Weatherford College

Grace House also helped to implement the program in both Weatherford and Mineral Wells Independent School Districts.  In addition a modified version of the program is currently being taught at Weatherford College.

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Update on Worth the Wait

Shawna, our Worth the Wait Educator, taught in Aledo, Graford, Perrin-Whitt, Peaster,and Brock during the spring semester. She shares some thoughts below.

Our God is AMAZING and he will accomplish His purpose in the most creative of ways.   Every time I stand before a class, in PUBLIC school, I think “I am getting to share TRUTH with these kids".  Some are very receptive of the information I bring, some not so much and some will have their life changed. 

I had a girl at Aledo High School tell me on the last day she had never really thought about it but, after the Worth The Wait class, she would definitely wait until marriage to have sex.  These teens want to know the truth, especially when it comes to sex.  So many of them are not having the conversations they should be having at home with their parents.  Fortunately, we are able to establish enough of a relationship within the 10 days that we are together that they feel comfortable enough to ask me questions. 

One thing that did stand out at several of the schools was the great need for STD testing.  Once they hear the STD statistics, it makes the ones who have been sexually active a little uncomfortable.  They are not going to go to their family doctor or anywhere else where insurance is needed but, they would come to us!! 

We will never know on this side of eternity what decisions were made or lives saved because kids heard truth. My vision is that more kids throughout Parker County will have the opportunity to learn from this curriculum.