Biblical Wisdom for Raising Girls with Ricky Chelette

Guest: Ricky Chelette

***Ricky will be speaking at PCA for two PCA parent training sessions, first on Monday evening, January 23rd in the SLC on the Plano campus starting at 6:30 pm as well as the following Monday evening, January 30th in The Gathering at the North Campus beginning at 6:45 pm. Childcare is not available for these sessions.***

Living Hope Ministries

As Executive Director, Ricky’s vision, leadership, compassion and passion for truth has helped LHM grow and expand amidst a culture often antagonistic to its mission. Before joining Living Hope Ministries, Ricky served the Lord as a single adult/outreach pastor, youth pastor, education minister, and even used his gifts of singing and teaching traveling the US performing gospel concerts. Ricky was one of the founders of LHM’s online support forums and was instrumental in establishing satellites of LHM in Denton and Houston. Ricky holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/ Pre-Law, A Master of Arts in Religious Education, is an ordained minister, and has taught at seminaries, colleges, and universities in addition to speaking throughout the US and abroad. While serving as executive director, Ricky concurrently serves on the pastoral staff at First Baptist Church, Arlington, TX as an ordained pastor.

 

Over his more than thirty years in ministry, Ricky has vast experience speaking to and journeying with thousands of men, women, and friends and family of those struggling with gender and identity confusion. Ricky enjoys traveling, cooking, painting, writing, reading, and seeing people’s lives transformed by Jesus. His real passions are teaching the word of God, serving the church and her people, and hosting folks at his house for his personally prepared gourmet meals. Ricky was joyously married for thirty years to the late Merlinda Allen Chelette, who went to be with the Lord in April 2019.

Starting the conversation with raising girls today (boys will be next week). 

Ricky sees the gender “confusion” today as a “social contagion” - many young girls are following the lead of another or even someone famous

Where do we begin this conversation with our daughters?

• Talk with your daughters about why God created gender, especially the beauty of being created as a woman.

• Is there anything that a woman can’t do in today’s current culture?

• Are there things that specifically a woman can do that is special and unique?

If you just allow a person to progress normally through puberty, 75-85% of gender confusion will resolve for the sex to which they are born.

Parents - celebrate the way that your child was created by God - if they are a boy, celebrate that they are male - if they are a girl, celebrate that they are female. Remember that God doesn’t make mistakes - your children were created by God for a purpose, which includes their gender.

Parents - understand the influence that social media is having on the hearts and minds of your children!

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!