There is a girl that is in my small group of 8 (she is the only girl in the group) and her name is Kim. Kim has not talked much in our small groups, and today I saw her walking in the lunch line, and struck a conversation with her. I asked her, "Kim, I know it might be hard to talk in a group of guys, but really, how are you?" Her response has literally had me in tears for the past 3 hours. Kim's mom and dad split up when she was younger and lived with her mom and 2 brothers in Pennsylvania. Her mom got word that she had a rare case of cancer and was fighting it and Dr.'s said it looked like she was going to come through it OK. On April 19th, this year (just 3 months ago) her mom was killed in an accident from a drunk driver hitting her. Kim now lives in the home her mom owned BY HERSELF! She is 18 years old and her brothers went to live with someone in TX. and she is now painfully going through these days. I talked with her youth pastor and his wife and they were shocked that she talked to me about it. ahhhhhh, pray for Kim! She is so broken, and is not sure if she wants to follow Jesus. She is raw and honest. Some of our kids want to throw her a party tonight to tell her that we love her, so we are going to do it.
We will keep in contact with this girl and even are talking about trying to fly her out to S.F. to spend time with our youth group.
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Awesome story.
Becky Tippitt (mom)
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