We hold the Ring of Honor every February during the valentine week. The event is intended to help singles understand God’s vision for marriage so that they can align their minds to God’s way before they walk into this institution. Why should we always wait to do damage control and crisis management for failing marriages? The Ring of honor works to plant the seed before the rains!

We do this by putting together credible guest speakers to openly share God’s mind on relationships and address various concerns about purity, sex and marriage among others. The core of the event is to feed young people with the truth.

Many young people have been continuously bombarded with lies and misconceptions from the media and other numerous sources. Such kinds of lies have fired up young people to relate with whosever they desire—with zero accountability and no regard to God’s Word. For instance, I once heard an elder at a youth conference share about how “God had vowed to never ever entangle himself in relationship matters! In other words, God had given mankind the liberty to do as he pleased in all relationship matters “. In her opinion, this came about at the time “when Eve led Adam to sin and Adam ended up blaming God for bringing Eve to him.”

These are the kinds of misconceptions that we seek to correct through the Ring of Honor event.

This year, our theme is ‘while I wait’.  Under this theme we intend to focus on matters like the pressures of being single, encouraging honesty and truthfulness to self. We shall therefore handle questions like: ‘How do I make the best of my singlehood? Am I single by choice or am hiding from past pain and experiences? If I am interested in relationships, what do I do? Is it ok not to be interested in relationships, am I normal? etc.

I am personally super excited about this event. It’s a great opportunity to listen to godly men and women in a fun filled environment. All my single friends are hereby invited to flood in and hear from God—the author of relationships!

Gloria, Director Reach Centre.