Being the Best You

Together with my pastor's wife, I'm in the process of co-ordinating a program to be run as part of the first year's high school curriculum. It is called the SHINE program and is pioneered by Hillsong Emerge. It is about helping girls between the age of 12-14 to value themselves, to find the strength within themselves, and to live a life of purpose in the bigger scheme of things. It's about caring for their body (value), mind (strength) and soul (purpose).

It has been a passion of mine to free people to be who the Creator (aka God, Yahweh) had meant for us to be. It's about discovering our innate talents that had been bestowed upon each individual and using those talents to the fullest. It's about being freed of the distractions in this world that is pulling us away from our purpose. Being a woman, it is only natural for me to help other women and future women in this area.

Co-ordinating this program involves the initial selling of the program to the local high school's principal, then getting sponsorships from local businesses to help fund the program, and then the actual running of the program in the schools for a period of 8 weeks where girls get to experience hands-on haircare, nailcare, skincare & make-up, respect & etiquette, hear talks on nutrition, fitness and deportment as ways of valuing themselves and walking tall in their purpose. Unlike other personal hygiene talks or girlie commercial magazines, the emphasis on truths about why we do vain things and why we should take care of ourselves are re-instated throughout the whole course.

Personally, it's going to be so challenging and exciting. I personally cannot wait to actually see this program up and running, and to face the exciting challenges along the way.

I hope that whoever reads this blog will also go away with the truth that you have a purpose in God and to challenge you to find that purpose. There's nothing more exciting than being the best You that you can be!