When she hears the buzzword “safe place,” school isn’t what normally comes to mind for 13-year-old Lexie P. Full article at Focusonthefamily.com
As a middle-school student in Georgia, too often she feels she “can’t talk about my faith without being told, ‘No.’ I have to learn about other religions in school that I don’t follow, and I can’t even learn about my own religion at school, which really upsets me,” she explains. “It’s not a safe place to me.”
Last year, however—for at least one whole school day—that changed: “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” she says, “was one of the safest days I’ve ever [had] in school. Kids were talking about [Jesus], they were professing the Gospel and I just felt like there was nothing to fear, the light has come in and there was no more darkness.”
Lexie was one of more than 155,000 students nationwide—from kindergarten to college—who participated in the event. Sponsored annually by Focus on the Family, the event empowers students to take their Bibles to school as a visual way to share God’s hope with friends and celebrate their right to free speech.