Egypt (MNN) — As a young girl growing up in Egypt, Wakeela* was treated differently than her brothers. Her parents had only wanted boys, and they made sure Wakeela knew that.
Later, as a young woman, Wakeela struggled to feel loved and accepted. She saw herself as worthless.
That all started to change when Wakeela began watching SAT-7’s satellite television program My Mirror. The program encourages Arab women in their God-given value and identity in Christ.
Marianne Awaraji, presenter of My Mirror. (Photo, caption courtesy of SAT-7 USA)
Joe Willey with SAT-7 says Wakeela eventually connected with their Viewer Support Team. “The program My Mirror gave her an opportunity to say, ‘I’m really struggling with this.’ But the Viewer Support Team was also able to show her that these negative beliefs that she had about herself aren’t true according to Scripture and according to how God sees her.”
Through SAT-7’s encouragement and programming that pointed her to the Bible, Wakeela came to understand her worth in the eyes of her Heavenly Father.
There are other Arab women like Wakeela in Egypt who need your prayers!
Willey asks, “Pray for young girls, young women, women who are mature – first and foremost, that they would understand how they are valued in the eyes of God. That is a bedrock principle.
“But secondly, [pray] that they would be valued by their husbands, by their families, by their siblings. Then that value, I believe, will be translated into being valued in the culture – and that is what SAT-7 is going to say. Women [and] girls are not pieces of property. They’re not to be bought or sold or treated poorly. They are a person made in the image of God.”
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*Name changed by SAT-7 for security.
Header photo courtesy of SAT-7 USA.
