February has been Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM). FOCUS Ministries is here for the students, the teens, the tweens, college people and all young people who are trying to navigate strange times and difficult relationships. Here are some important …
You cut me deep you cut me quick way down to the core so I weep silently. I weep for me I weep for you because what you’re doing to me. How can you say how can you do this …
Because we recognize the month of February as a time to build awareness of Teen Dating Violence, I am re-posting the story I wrote last year about how Little Wife started out being an abused little teenage girl. Not much …
We are happy and blessed to announce a very original fundraiser happening right NOW for the FOCUS Ministries TEEN program. Because February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, we have been “focusing” on the reality and the tragedy of teen …
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. We are looking at this very important topic all month long. The reason? Simply this: if we build awareness of abuse at the teen/college level of relationships, we will reduce the number of …
Maybe you thought February is all about Valentine’s Day? Actually February has been designated as Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. Even though we are still in January (and it has been a long month), we are beginning to look at …
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. The problem of dating violence gets worse every year and we are thankful for the awareness that the government is giving to this devastating and sinful epidemic. And yes, I know that we …
What’s that old saying? “There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” Likely, most of us understand the implications of that statement. But I wonder, is it fair to say that some questions are better than others? We could probably …
As I was pondering the recent Little Wife story about how she tried to quit drinking as a new year resolution, I remembered my own problems with substances in the past. We don’t like to think about those times, do …
Little Wife set her empty wine glass on the kitchen table and gazed sadly out the window at the falling snow. The weak mid-January sunlight filtered through the cold clouds barely reaching the ground before dissolving into another gray afternoon. …