Bristol Palin will participate in a LoveFest in Arcadia on Feb. 12-13.
LoveFest 9 is the ninth annual event hosted by Our Savior Lutheran Church that brings together youth and adults to interact with experts about pressing issues facing teenagers.
Bristol Palin
This year’s program, themed “Empowered,” features keynote speakers Bristol Palin, Chad Eastham and Karen Kropf, and Dove Award-winning Group 1 Crew performing on Saturday, Feb. 12.
Topics of discussion will again include abstinence, sex, and bullying, sexting, adoption, drug use, peer pressure, and gangs, body image, depression, raising adult children, and Internet dangers.
Palin, who recently became the Teen Ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation, which works to educate America’s youth about the consequences of teenage pregnancy, will speak about abstinence, faith, life and her very public teen pregnancy, the birth of her son Tripp and the challenges of balancing life as a mother and a teenager.
Author and Revolve Tour speaker Chad Eastman shares the stage with Bristol, as the resident expert on guys and relationships. Chad speaks to thousands of teens each year and is an author, column writer and teen culture expert for HealthyVisions.org. Chad will be speaking about his new book that will release at LoveFest called The Truth About Dating, Love and Just Being Friends
Karen Kropf, a LoveFest favorite, returns to examine how culture influences the kind of story our lives will tell. She will be teaching one of her most popular classes “Worth Waiting For” which reflects on how early decisions about sex and relationships carries on throughout our lives. Karen runs the non-profit Positively Waiting, which is a community outreach dedicated to revealing the positive benefits of sexual self-control.
Advance registration is required.
Tickets for LoveFest9: Empowered are $20 each and include lunch by In-N-Out Burgers as well as dinner by Peppers Mexican Restaurant. Seats are limited. Call (626) 447-7690 for registration information.
– By Scott Hettrick
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Seriously, Bristol Palin is not a role model, I wouldn’t attend this event if they paid me.
I don’t believe she is speaking as a role model, rather as a teen who has “been there, done that”. If the only speakers at events like this one are people who have stuck to the straight and narrow their entire lives, teens would not be able to relate. Just because Bristol is not a “role model” does not mean others cannot learn from her mistakes. Also, she is only one speaker at an event that looks like it has alot to offer. Open your minds and hearts, our youth needs all the help it can get!
I am sure that Bristol Palin will be an inspiration to all those who attend this year. She is the sweetest, kindest and most humble young lady and she is a gentle spirit and loving mother to her little son, Tripp.
This is a young woman who made a very poor decision and a teenager, and has faced all the consequences associated with that decision and many undeserving consequences, as well due to her mother’s political career. Parents and teenagers alike will love her when they meet her. She is a lovely young woman who not only talks-the-talk but walks-the-walk. God bless her and her adorable son, Tripp.
WHAT IS ARCADIA THINKING? Bristol Palin is no role model… She has no credibility at ALL. Just because she’s Palin’s daughter doesn’t mean she’s all that or special… I doubt that any teenagers at all will benefit from listening to Bristol.
I went. I benefited. She’s a great speaker and made as many mistakes as we all do and will continue making mistakes but this time grasping more firmly to her faith in God.