To empower and support parents to faithfully play their custodial role over their children as God’s gifts. Parents are to steward their children in the fear of God therefore fulfilling their God-given mandate. This role includes protecting children/youth from vices that endanger them. Presently, threats such as the sexualization agenda, invasion of culture that is foreign to both our Christian and African values. Parents are also challenged resource-wise and battered by own challenges of vulnerability. God’s aim in parenting is to raise them as godly seed.
Many men and women are battling sexual confusion impacted negatively by sexual and relational brokenness. We are here for you. Some are married and yet many more are yet to be married. Majority of people are wounded by relational brokenness that define dysfunctional families; divorce, separation, absentee fathers, overbearing mothers, rebellious and wayward children, death of loved ones, incest and many other realities that leave trauma as the experience of many in our society.
Majority of the people are wounded and broken. Broken people break other people. These soul wounds bleed on others. The next generation (children & youth) is left vulnerable to those with ill intent to sway and corrupt their ways. Corruption especially of a sexual nature attracts God’s wrath as seen in Genesis 19 and Numbers 25. King David’s adulterous relationship with Bathsheba (Uriah’s wife) brought irreparable damage to his family. The consequences were dire. Many lives were lost unnecessarily. After he repented in Psalm 51, there was reprieve. But the consequences continued across his generations. God is seeking to bring healing, restoration and alignment for those who are seeking help.
The extent of societal brokenness is evident in social statistics, but intentional action can help restore families and protect children: