Teach the children the right way; before the are shown by the world what's wrong

I am a 26 years old in college. I am a God fearing child. I do everything in God's will. I am working in my church as working with the youths, and I am on the church choir, and usher board. I am very active and always on the go. One thing you will learn about me is I have a passion for kids. Children are my heart, I would do anything to be there with kids who need a helping hand. When I first learned about Peas In Their Pods I said wow, how can I be apart of it? Next thing I know I joined and starting helping to keep track of our missing children. In my testiomony you will leran who I am now and how I become to the person I am now. When I say I am going to do something I keep my word to doing it. Below you will see my testimony.

There is a woman who thanks God for taking her through many trials and tribulations, because if it was not for Him... Thank You God... she would not be here to glorify HIS holy name and to praise HIM. She is now 26 years old and she have been through as much as was mentioned earlier. Her life is a true testimony. Her father left her and her mother when she was 2 years old. Her mother had family members to help her to raise the baby. By the time she turned 11 her father came back into her life. She couldn't understand him; simply because it took him that long to come back. On her 12th birthday she found out that he went and had kids by other women. She was too young to understand; he told her. She really didn't have a father figure in her life as she was growing up. She really didn't know who GOD was at this time, and she didn't know who to turn to. Her closest family member, her grandmother had died when she was 6 years old.
She was placed in foster care when she was 13 because her mother picked her boyfriend over this precious child. She was tired of her mother choosing her boyfriend over her so she took a letter that she had written to her Godmother and showed it to her teacher. When she read it she said: "OH MY GOD"! She then said: "Let's go to your guidance counselor". The guidance counselor said the same thing. "OH MY GOD"! They both agreed that she couldn’t go back to that house. What her mother’s boyfriend would do is when her mother would leave to go to work; he would come into her room and fondle her. She would be in her room asleep and she slept very hard so in the beginning she didn’t know what was happening. Her body would be stiff in the mornings if she didn’t wake up to realize what was happening to her while it was happening. After several times of this happening he became worse and even though she would be awake he would forced her to perform oral sex on him. . She had begun to see that her mother was acting differently because she was doing drugs. As my mother’s boyfriend became worse with her he forced her again and that particular evening she went to her neighbor and told her what happened and stayed there until it was time to go to school the next morning. Yes, she put herself in foster care.
She learned who Jesus really was at age 15. When she was in her first foster home she was treated badly, so she left. Since that first home she has been in 5 or more foster homes. When she was 15 a family came to take her in. She learned they were Pastor's, but yet they didn't treat her as though they were. One day she was suppose to go to school... (This was high school time) she didn't want to go because she had to go to detention that day. So she skipped school and went somewhere with her so called foster sister and was raped by her boyfriend’s friend. She was crying and very upset. Because she kept telling the boy that she was not there for sex. And she kept telling him to stop. But he wouldn't she was slapped by him multiple of times. While she didn't know how it felt to lose her virginity it made things worse. When she heard a pop she started crying more. He slapped her again because he thought that she was not a virgin and she ran away from the house. And she said some words. A couple days went by the guy found out where she lived and called her name. She thought that she was dreaming, but she wasn't. He said "don't snitch or I will kill you". She got scared and crawled off her bed and ran upstairs to tell her foster parents. That next day she left to go to another foster home with her social worker.
At the age of 16, she then was given to another family that was Pastor's. Her dad is now a Bishop. In 2006 while she was in college she was raped yet again. The rapist was identified and not charged. Her friends said you were drunk and that was it. She remembers putting her drink down and going back to dance. When she woke up she didn't know where she was. She woke up looking around and trying to figure out her surroundings. She also saw a guy lying next to her. This time she was to find that she was pregnant as a result and by a 3am phone call. A couple days after this call from her mother she asked her friends "What happened to me at the club?" They just said you got drunk and I couldn't understand. Shrita said what type of friends would let me do this? In this fact she told them that she was three months pregnant. She doesn’t believe in abortions, so she kept her child and her adoptive parents are taking care of her until she finishes school. She is a unique baby and Shrita loves her. Jesus, Shrita thank you and give you praise at all times for the gifts that you’ve given her and for the plans you have for her life. The Lord has given Shrita many talents. She thanks God for her Youth and Healing Ministry that will be in the process of during in the next 2 years.
For all of my mothers and sisters in her life who has lost a love one Shrita want you to know that you are not alone. She lost her mother over this past summer 2008, but she knows she is in a better place. She doesn’t have to worry about her suffering anymore. She knows that God is going to use her to reach out to other women because she is a living testimony. God has a plan for all of our lives.
She was molested at a young age and her real mother didn't even believe her. In founding about that she was slapped. Yes she put herself in foster care as a teenager. She was tempted by many to do wrong. As she got older she started to read the Bible more to understand why she had gone through the things she had. She had been sent from one place to another in order to secure a proper place for her to grow into the women she is now.
When she was 19-20 years she learned that her mother was HIV positive she became afraid for her mother and her own life. She began to worry that she may be HIV positive... she wondered whether or not she was pregnant with Shrita when she got it. Shrita have been tested and SHE IS NOT HIV POSITIVE. She was so relieved to hear that.
As she became older she began to see things in her spiritual eyes about her mother without her telling Shrita. At age 23 her mother started to get sicker. So Shrita spent more time with her until she went back to school. When she turned 25, doctors told her that her mother wouldn't be here for long. She helped her and did all she could while she was there with her and when nobody wanted to help her. She died this past summer 2008.
If she didn't know who Jesus was she could have lost it. Her mother died just before time for her to return to college. So that summer Shrita had to plan to bury her mother and do all the work by herself. But God! Shrita already had a vision from the Lord on how she wanted her mother funeral to be. She had aunt who would always nag about stuff that made her upset. She thank God each day because He gave her a family who will always be there for her and he also gave her sisters (all of you) to pray with her or talk to. She knows by having God in her life it changed her a lot. God is still helping her to reach out to tell the youths her testimony. Thank you for helping Shrita to get started with her story.
We all have to Let Go and Let God! I know I did. And it feels great!
A Prayer For Our Young People


God our Father, You see Your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world.

Show them that Your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following You is better than chasing after selfish goals.

Help them to take failure, not as a measure of their worth, but as a chance for a new start.

Give them strength to hold their faith in you, and to keep alive their joy in your creation.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen