Great Worth

Girls in many places around the world experience severe discrimination. They are often abused, exploited, or neglected. The lie that is frequently communicated to and experienced by many girls is that their worth is less than that of boys.

MB Mission workers Tim and Nancy* serve in a restricted access country in Asia where gender discrimination is widespread. Nancy teaches English every week to two sisters who are 8 and 11 years old.

Jun and Mee* come from an extremely dysfunctional family. Verbal and physical abuse occur frequently in their home. When they arrive for their English lessons at 11am, Jun and Mee have often not yet had anything to eat.

Recently, they asked Nancy, "Do you like girls or boys better?" Nancy responded by telling the girls that she liked both equally. Jun and Mee shared their belief that being a girl from the country they live in was bad, but they thought that it would be okay if they were foreign girls.

Nancy was saddened when they told her this, but she was not surprised. Jun and Mee are regularly told by their parents that they wish they were boys and that having girls is so much trouble.

This was an incredible opportunity for Nancy to speak truth into their lives. She shared with Jun and Mee that God created them and that they are very important to Him no matter what other people say.

Pray that Jun and Mee will grasp tightly to this truth and will have a deep hunger to know Jesus. Pray that God will speak to them continually about His great love for them and plans for their lives.

For You created my inmost being;
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14

* Names have been changed