Spirituality sets the affections on things above and brings the entire emotional nature under the regulating and redeeming sway of the Holy Spirit, adjusting reason and intellect to the divine reason, and enabling man to think God's thoughts and discern His purposes, nature and will. A spiritually-minded man is one whose will is set on God as well as his intellect and affections. In every fiber of his moral being, and in all the activities of his soul, he is under the guidance and dominion of the Holy Spirit. A spiritual mature person is not controlled by the desire of the flesh, a spiritual mature person is the one whose fleshy body and its desire is brought under the subjection of the spirit, and walks in the spirit which makes it impossible to fulfill the desire of the flesh which are adultery, fornication, drunkard immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), envy, drunkenness, carousing. A spiritual minded and mature person is the one who can resist the evil desire of the flesh or sin, and choose to be obedient to God and live in harmony with God’s will. A spiritual person have more regard to spiritual things that the physical, thus mortifying flesh and its desire and can choose to do all thing for the sake of Christ. Promoting spiritual upliftment among the youth can bring a prominent impact in transforming the lives of the youth producing an ideal moral character among the youth.
Lifestyle is defined as the way in which a person or a group of people live and work. Lifestyle may include views on religion, health, intimacy, and more.A lifestyle typically reflects an individual's attitudes, values.All of these aspects play a role in shaping someone's lifestyle. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual. It is the typical manner in which an individual conducts his life, such as; smoking, alcoholism and reckless behavior. There are some lifestyles and risky behaviors which predispose people to the disease and spread. Risky lifestyles increase prevalence of HIV/AIDS, a lifestyle that increases a person’s risk of contracting HIV/AIDS is sexual promiscuity or having more than one sexual partner. Teenage pregnancies are extremely common in Botswana. In the sentinel survey studies carried out in antenatal clinics throughout Botswana, the number of unmarried pregnant youth is exceptionally high, accounting for over 78% of all clients and within this group the HIV prevalence is highest in all test sites with ranges from 39.2% -51.9 %. Clearly there is urgent need to address issues of sexuality as they pertain to youth. If education programmes succeed in doing nothing more than encouraging youth to delay sexual debut or adopt a lifestyle of abstinence to marriage, their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS can be substantially reduced. A considerable amount of unprotected sex is occurring if it is resulting in so many pregnancies. This calls for a re-look at the effectiveness of the HIV/AIDS prevention messages. Most of Batswana youth have a lifestyle of living together with their partners outside marriage which also is a factor that increases the rate of un-married pregnancy, unfaithfulness and violence among the youth. Nowadays there is an insignificant practice of abstinence to marriage lifestyle. Alcoholism is a term used to describe a state in which an individual indulges in excessive drinking of alcohol and that this might make or influence a man to have unsafe sexual practices like rape, alcohol consumption reduces social and sexual inhibitions which facilitate casual sex and increased number of sexual partners. Smoking and drug and alcohol use are habit forming activities which make up an individual’s lifestyle. Partying lifestyle is also common among the youth, which involves indulging excessive drug, alcohol, drug that make or influence reckless behavior, unsafe sexual practices leading to a deviant lifestyle of greater possibilities of relations with multiple sex partners, and this are time where there is a lot of peer and sexual pressure. Lifestyle variants constitute risk to HIV/AIDS prevalence. A change of lifestyle to the one that God advocates is the best possible way of ridding the world of this modern scourge.
Key initiative
- Facilitate for youth conferences, outreaches and camps: This will be by bringing together the youth from different denomination and bringing about a gathering of youth. Outreaches will be conducted by volunteers and members of the organization.
- Collaboration with churches/faith based organization.
- Training and skill development: Discipleship school;To bring about organized man and women (youth) who will serve as disciples in promoting spiritual upliftment and building ideal moral character among the youth.
