During the service the parents and congregation committed themselves to supporting the teens in their promise to remain sexually pure until marriage. It began with a commitment to godly courtship the young people made at an Acquire the Fire Convention in March. True Love Waits is an international campaign designed to challenge teens and college students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. The campaign was created April 1993 and continues to be coordinated by the Baptist Sunday School Board. Forty-two denominations and various Christian student organizations are actively carrying the True Love Waits challenge to students.
Many valuable resources are available to assist in implementing a True Love Waits program.
The family worship plan was laid out for the parents in an easy to understand fashion, so even if they had not conducted family worship they could be successful. In an effort to bolster them in this endeavor, the youth ministry led the teens through a six-week study using a book by Lane Powell titled Holding Out for True Love. Each week the youths read a chapter in the book, then went through group learning activities the following Saturday to reemphasize the key points of the chapter. The book, a service of the Baptist Sunday School Board, takes the students through the process of understanding how important they are to God and his plan for their relationships with the opposite sex. Dr. Powell spent the rest of the book convincing the youths of that fact and encouraging them to use the power God gave them over their feelings.