Trish Jackson said one of her favorite things about the recent Complete event was this — the sight of teen girls furiously taking notes.
“We just wanted them to know the Word, just to dig into the Bible,” said Jackson, who serves as NextGen consultant for Alabama Woman’s Missionary Union.
She said teen girls today face a lot of things that are trying to hijack their identity, and often they don’t have the tools in their toolbox to fight back. That’s why she wanted this year’s Complete event to focus on equipping teen girls to know the Word deeply and let that shape who they are.
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“I wanted them to have a passion for seeing how God’s word speaks to their heart and their identity,” she said. “I wanted them to be challenged to have a daily discipline in that.”
So the theme of this year’s Complete, a gathering for teen girls held March 6–7 at First Baptist Church Prattville, was Know the Word, Know Your Worth. Around 250 girls gathered to hear speaker Heather Johnson, who has worked with Thrive, a ministry wives’ certificate program at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
“She made it so approachable, even for the seventh graders,” Jackson said.
Jenna Nicholson, half of the worship duo Jenna & Zoë, led worship.
The girls also had the opportunity to attend breakout sessions intended to help them learn to dive more deeply into Scripture, including topics ranging from “battling the lies of sin with Scripture” to “how to feel God when you’re just not feeling it.”
‘Intentional Bible study tools’
And they were given a number of resources, including the notebooks, pens and highlighters they were using for that furious note taking.
“They told their leaders that they enjoyed the intentional Bible study tools,” Jackson said, noting that overall it was “an amazing” weekend.
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