True Love Waits ministry celebrates 10th anniversary
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| Cards for Athens Speaker and comedian Keith Deltano holds up a box containing True Love Waits commitment cards signed by youth attending the 10th anniversary celebration in Nashville June 26. The cards will be sent to Athens, where they will be displayed alongside some 400,000 other cards from around the world. Photo by Sara Sanders |
True Love Waits, a ministry of LifeWay Christian Resources, is observing its 10th anniversary this year and the celebration in Nashville recalled a movement that started in 1994 with 200,000 commitment cards for abstinence staked on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In August this year, sponsors of the campaign from LifeWay expect about 400,000 pledge cards to be displayed in Athens, Greece, for the summer Olympic Games.
Comedian and storyteller Keith Deltano served as emcee for the celebration, introducing music performances by Jadyn Maria, Chicago sisters BarlowGirl, and Shaun Groves, a six-time Dove Award nominee. Miss America 1997, Tara Dawn Christensen, shared purity messages from the year of her reign, and Jessica Vaughan, who participated as a student in the first True Love Waits event in Washington, D.C., talked about her failures and successes.
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