{"id":21814,"date":"2012-10-08T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=21814"},"modified":"2012-10-09T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:35:25","slug":"the-teenage-life-club-strikes-again-with-advice-for-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-teenage-life-club-strikes-again-with-advice-for-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teenage Life Club Strikes Again with Advice for Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_12761\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/angie-kim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12761\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12761\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/angie-kim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angie Kim, president of The Teenage Life Club<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: We have covered The Teenage Life Club and their projects in <a href=\"\/news\/human-rights\/angie-kim-one-million-letters-campaign\/\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/human-rights\/teenage-life-club-launches-an-april-pro-life-challenge\/\">articles<\/a>. In this article, their president, Angela Kim, shares answers to important questions the teens are often asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">We are pro-life. We are Christians. There are ten of us. And we are all teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>We call ourselves <a href=\"www.theteenagelifeclub.com\">The Teenage Life Club<\/a>, and we have been around since April 1, 2011. Our goal is to spend our teen years fighting the injustice of abortion, to fight for our helpless brothers and sisters who have no voice of their own. We want to open up an opportunity for people (like us) with pro-life views to <em>stand up<\/em> for life and make a difference in small ways. As we act within the pro-life movement, striving to glorify God through all our actions, several questions are constantly pressed upon our ears.<\/p>\n<p>In order to answer these questions, I have interviewed three fellow members from The Teenage Life Club. To start out, we focus on the basics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Why are we pro-life?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m pro-life because first of all, I&#8217;m a servant of Jesus Christ and He commands that we do not murder,\u201d says Elise, \u201c\u2026 because it&#8217;s inhumane and cruel to kill children in their mother&#8217;s womb, which should be the safest place for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blake says, \u201cI&#8217;m pro-life because very simply, all life is from our Creator. And only He should be able to decide whether someone\u2019s life ends or keeps going. We are clay, He is the potter, and honestly, I think we don&#8217;t view it that way very much anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo kill an innocent person is murder. And I believe murder is a terrible thing.\u201d Natalie says simply. \u201cAlso, on a more personal level, I have a little brother with special needs, and abortion often targets other children like him. I hate that. People need to be educated on other ways to cope with having disabled children.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Do we ever feel like our efforts are useless, being teenagers?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d says Natalie. \u201cI often feel that my efforts are useless. I&#8217;m just one person. I don&#8217;t even have a high school diploma yet. But that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so encouraging to me to know that God isn&#8217;t expecting me to do anything on my own. He is strongest when I am weakest, and He&#8217;s also placed me in His bride, the church. All of us Christians working together <em>can <\/em>do amazing things, and that has been promised in Scripture and proved throughout history.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13453\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstimefree_33939.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13453\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13453\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstimefree_33939-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstimefree_33939-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstimefree_33939-1024x900.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teens can change their world.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I start to think, \u2018But my efforts aren&#8217;t helping,\u2019\u201d says Blake, \u201c[God] says, \u2018It\u2019s not about you getting all the glory. I am working all things out for good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laughing, Elise answers, \u201cMaybe once or twice! But I know that I am a part of the next generation, and it&#8217;s my vote and my opinion that are going to matter in 20 years. If we, as teenagers, don&#8217;t stand up now, what makes us think anyone will do it later?\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>If we could say something to every pro-life teen in the world, what would we say?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cBe passionate,&#8221; says Blake. &#8220;Know your facts; don\u2019t let people tell you, [but] search for yourself. Believe what you are saying; if you don&#8217;t believe it no one else will. And make God more important than you wanting to make a change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo research!\u201d Natalie says. \u201cDon&#8217;t sit back and be all like, &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;m pro-life.&#8217; Know <em>why<\/em> you&#8217;re pro-life, and once you know the facts, be willing to take a stand on that issue. It&#8217;s too easy for us teens to get wrapped up in stuff that won&#8217;t matter when we&#8217;re eighty. Whether I finished every season of &#8216;Monk&#8217; won&#8217;t matter then. What will matter is how many people and lives I was able to influence for Jesus. Have I done everything I can to glorify Him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Elise answers, \u201cI would tell them to stay strong. It&#8217;s easy to listen when people tell you, \u2018You&#8217;re just a teenager, what can you do?\u2019 But you are the next generation, even though you can&#8217;t vote. Your opinion matters. Keep going, and doing your part to save children everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never too early to start defending the unborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":14732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Teenage Life Club Strikes Again with Advice for Teens - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-teenage-life-club-strikes-again-with-advice-for-teens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Teenage Life Club Strikes Again with Advice for Teens - 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