YoungLives offers support, friendship for teen moms
Young Life staffers Lisa Naydenov, left, and Kelly Wemp play with 1-year-old Porter as his mother, 19-year-old Piper Bradshaw, looks on. Bradshaw was one of several young moms at YoungLives, a youth program to support teenage parents.
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Amari Razo exchanges silly faces with her cousin’s son, 3-month-old Josiah, at a YoungLives gathering Thursday. Razo, 18, is due to have her own baby boy in nine weeks.
Taryn Janke, 19, snuggles her sleeping 3-month-old son Hudson at YoungLives Thursday. An unexpected pregnancy derailed some of Janke’s plans, but she’s found support both in her family and in YoungLives.
Piper Bradshaw and her son Porter take a break at the YoungLives meeting Thursday at Moses Lake Alliance Church. The tattoo Bradshaw wears refers to a Bible verse that says in part “Do not fear, for I am with you.”
MOSES LAKE — It’s a Thursday night at the Moses Lake Alliance Church, and the teenagers are eating, doing crafts, talking and praying, just like any other faith-based youth group. But this one is a little different: they’re all girls, and more than half are mothers.
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