{"id":934,"date":"2016-12-14T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T13:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=934"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:42:20","slug":"from-abused-to-adored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"From Abused to Adored"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span>“God doesn’t love me!  If God loves me, how could He let this happen to me?”, were the cries heard from 14-year old Teresa as she poured out her heart to the chaplain at her school.  Her hands covered her face as she asked the same question over and over again.  <\/p>\n

Teresa\u2019s stepfather had been sexually abused her since she was ten and for the past two years he had been selling her off to the cartel.  For four years Teresa lived through unimaginable pain, shame, terror and fear until a Mission Generation chaplain showed up at her school with a message of love and healing.  Teresa was touched. A glimmer of hope arose in her as she started to understand her value as a child of God.<\/p>\n

The vice-principle at her middle school worked with the cartel to traffic young girls like Teresa.  Several times a week luxury cars would stop by the school to pick up the girls and often drop them off late at night keeping them from their studies.<\/p>\n

It took three counseling sessions before Teresa opened up to the sympathetic woman who was a chaplain at her school.  Teresa began to tell her heartbreaking stories, giving the chaplain a taste of the suffering she had lived through.  She was terrified to say anything, afraid something terrible would happen to her or her family.  <\/p>\n

The chaplain prayed with her to receive Jesus Christ into her wounded heart.  The Chaplain then called the Mission Generation office asking them to alert government officials.  Police were dispatched to the school and Teresa was placed into protective custody until her grandparents could be contacted.  <\/p>\n

Today Teresa glows with the love of God.  She is currently in the eighth-grade attending another school.  She understands she is greatly adored\u2026  The chaplains report that she is very active in Bible studies and worship services.  She is an excellent student now that she can completely focus on her school work.  She wants to go to university to become a lawyer to help other girls like her.<\/p>\n

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