Young women who find themselves not married and still in their parents' home have many options for the way that they might live and serve the Lord. As marriage is a picture of Christ in the church, singleness is as well. Singleness, when we're single, we can give ourselves wholeheartedly to the Lord and serve Him. And that would be our young women and our young men. So I always encourage our young women to give your whole heart to the Lord.

Serve Him with all of your heart. You don't have a husband and children to take care of. Give Him all you got 24-7. Wear yourself out for the kingdom of God. Now I know for these young women who are single and still in our household, there's a lot of questions on what they should do.

You know the scripture doesn't tell us real clearly, but there are some some norms we know that we're preparing for. The normative is to prepare for marriage and motherhood, and so we want to be sure that we have the skills and love those things and know that that's what we desire but if God doesn't bring that at this point in time in our lives then what are we going to do? I think that there's principles that still need to be put in place, and one of those is that a young woman needs to be protected. I generally encourage my daughters not to be so busy that you don't have time to help people. People need help, And they don't need help all the time, but when they need help, if no one is available, then who's going to help them?

There's got to be some flexibility in your schedule and your time, so when someone else in the church or someone else needs your help, a widow down the street or a young mother across the street with young children. If somebody needs our needs help and calls our household I just hope that somebody's is ready to help. So that's one thing but at the same time we should be busy doing something and not sitting around maybe all that waiting for something to happen.