MEMORANDUM
Date: February 12, 2010
To: Owen Williamson
From: Oscar E. Acuña
Subject: Nueva Esperanza Church as an agency for the topic of Adolescent Pregnancy
The church of Nueva Esperanza is the agency that will be used for information to carry on with the topic of Adolescent Pregnancy. This is a good source to show how adolescent pregnancy goes against God’s word.
Attached are three main types of observations and analysis about the agency:
· The characteristics of the agency
· The discourse practices of the agency
· My relation of it to adolescent pregnancy
The Characteristics of the Agency
Nueva Esperanza Church is mainly composed of Hispanics, but anyone is accepted. It is a Christian Baptist Church opened on Wednesdays from 7 pm to 8 pm for a prayer session, Saturdays from 1 pm to 3 pm for music classes and 5pm to 9pm for the youth group and children choir, and Sundays from 9:45 am to 11 am for Sunday school, 11 pm to 1 pm and 6 pm to 7 pm for preaching. Nueva Esperanza has different groups that the members can join: choir, children choir, youth group, music group, female group, and guitar lessons. The church also has a group of leaders composed of the leaders of all the groups and the treasurer, vice president, and president.
The Discourse Practices of the Agency
Nueva Esperanza Church runs with the support of its members, which can be anyone. It is a place to worship God and to learn about God’s word. It mainly uses The Bible as a source of reference, but also some other texts are used including pamphlets and lyrics to songs. The church’s group of leader meets once a month on a Saturday to talk about the church’s needs and a week after that the whole church has a business session where all the members are given announcements and information on what the church is doing, where the money is being spent, and new projects that would be worked on.
My Relation of it to Adolescent Pregnancy
This agency was chosen in relation to adolescent pregnancy because it talks about God’s word. It is a place that can prove how adolescent pregnancy goes against God’s word, though it is not what the agency does specifically. It is preached that God is against sex before marriage and when an adolescent gets pregnant God is being offended by both the father and mother of the child if they are not married. Like this, there are many other things that are going against God when an adolescent gets pregnant. The only place to know more about how this is true is in a place like this.