ACTeens Challenge Team presents positive role models

When students are surrounded by shockingly thin super models, explicit musical lyrics and graphic movie scenes, people sometimes wonder where young girls can turn for role models.
   
Alabama Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) presents the 2003 Alabama ACTeens Challenge Team, a team of five teenage girls who are making a difference for Christ in their communities, state and world.
   
The five-member team includes:
   
–Tiffany Davidson of Hueytown, a member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church;
   
–Ashley Lang of Madison, a member of Belmor Baptist Church;
   
–Caitlin Early of Fort Payne, a member of Second Baptist Church;
   
–Amanda Kramer of Alabaster, a member of First Baptist Church
   
–Whitney Zickafoose of Harvest, a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church.
   
Each year, Alabama WMU selects young women from throughout the state to serve as part of an advisory panel. The high school students help plan events such as Acteens Pizzazz, a gathering for girls in grades 7 through 12, and Student Missions Weekend, an intense missions weekend for the entire youth group.
  
In addition, the Challenge Team members are available to speak to churches and youth groups throughout the state.
   
Davidson, a senior in high school, said, “I love Acteens because I get to do missions. I feel that God has called me to be a missionary, and Acteens is giving me some experience.”
   
Lang, the second high school senior member, is a four-year member of Acteens and is involved in her church’s FAITH evangelism ministry. “Through Acteens Activators, I learned to establish a daily study time and the importance of it,” she said. “I also learned and experienced the power and importance of prayer.”
   
Early, a 16-year-old in Fort Payne, said, “I am eager to encourage other teenage girls to become involved in Acteens … and I would like to work with other Christian teens that we might strengthen our walk with Christ together.”
   
Kramer, a high school sophomore, serves on the youth council, teaches children’s church, attends weekly Acteens meetings and helps a neighboring church with a backyard Bible club for Hispanic children.
   
“Acteens has given me a chance to find out who I really am and can be through Christ,” she said.
Zickafoose, said, “I have always felt a special calling to missions and a burden for unreached people groups. Acteens provides ways to help missionaries and train for the missions field, whether it be in my neighborhood or on another continent.”
   
For more information about the Alabama ACTeens Challenge Team, contact Alabama WMU Students Consultant Candace McIntosh at 1-800-264-1225, Ext. 222 or at cmcintosh@alsbom.org. (WMU)