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Guest Author: Stephanie Banda
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Entries for: December, 2009
Daughters of The King is a rite of passage mentoring program for teen girls started by Doreen Hanna of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The program concludes with a special ceremony where each girl is blessed and welcomed into adulthood by a significant man in her life, be it her father or another male authority figure.
Stephanie Banda is a 24-year-old Daughter of the King (DOK) Alumni from Torrance, CA. She was 17 years old when she participated in the program and was blessed by her Pastor, Don Shoji. At the age of 19, she became a middle school youth leader and led her first group of young ladies through a DOK class. Since then, she has facilitated numerous DOK classes in the South Bay of Los Angeles for other groups and churches. Stephanie shares her story:
This past week I read something like, "Let's not forget to keep Christmas about Jesus." This struck me as funny because I realized that a person would never have to say that about God-ordained holy days. No one could confuse the fact that Hanukkah or Passover or Tabernacles is all about Jesus. It would be like saying, "Don't forget that your toe is attached to your foot."
The truth is, whether your family celebrates Christmas or not, it is a man-made holiday. God has His own calendar, and on it are seven major holy days He established called "Feasts," and no one has ever gotten them confused with any other human celebration.
My life has not been easy because of the hardships I have passed through together with my little sister (Peninah), and brother (Lionel), from losing our biological parents when we were still young. I felt so useless being left with the responsibility of taking care of my siblings when I couldn't even afford to feed them. Our relatives rejected us, probably because they saw us as burden with all our needs and problems.
My sister and I tried all we could do to earn a living but things kept getting worse. We went to bed hungry, stayed in very bad places, and wore poor clothing. What hurt me most was not seeing my sister and brother in school. I feared that my sister would end up in prostitution, and I also worried that my brother might join bad groups and get into drugs-a trend which is so common amongst young boys here who do not go to school.
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