No Sex 'Til Marriage was started in October 1996 by Gregg Wilson, a Youth Pastor of a local Assembly of God church in The Bahamas. With more than twenty-eight years of experience in dealing with youths in The Bahamas, the Caribbean and United States. The program was envisioned within the church after the cry was heard of Christian youths that had fallen to the temptation of peer pressure and after the discovery was made that the ratio of premarital sex was equally high amongst Christian youths as non Christians.
The seminar was designed and developed to educate teens and single young adults in regards to Biblical but practical principles on sexual abstinence. The course is twenty-five hours in length and is conducted over a six day period. The seminar is concluded with a unique Covenant Ceremony. A one years Leaders Study Guide is provided which is mailed out on a monthly basis. Due to our comprehensive our policy is to return the following year as a follow-up to all previous participants. Everywhere NSTM has been taught, participants have considered the 120 topic curriculum to be one of the most detailed courses in comparison to most school or church organizations. The seminar is considered to be one of the most thorough, in depth Christian teaching on sex to teens and single young adults. Our leaders have placed a lot of hard work and research into the material and we assure you that your church youth group will be encourage beyond measure.
NSTM teachings principles are realistic, practical and right to the point. Young people leave the seminar overwhelmingly informed, refreshed and excited about their new life of abstinence. The course exposes the dangers of premarital sex and it gives clear alternative in waiting for marriage. It reveals the misconceptions of sex education in both public and private schools. NSTM exposes the dangers of provocative and explicit secular music, TV ads, television sitcoms and magazines articles youths hold so dare to be true. NSTM has the facts and exposes those that twist or bend the truth and brainwash kids with subliminal marketings. The course is for juniors through young adult level. The seminar leaves no stone unturned in regards to human sexuality and deals with subject matters most educators and clergyman shy away from such as premarital sex, sexual diseases, incest, rape and the growing homosexuality culture.
The goal of NSTM is to inform, educate and teach on the dangers of premarital sex from a Biblical point of view. NSTM has a new twist and a fresh approach in conducting seminars on sexual abstinence for young people. NSTM makes twenty-five hours feel like a great big fellowship through dialogue and interaction and when it's all over, young people has always asked us to come back.
What makes NSTM unique is its cross-cultural international approach in which it adapts perfectly for the Caribbean youths, Caucasian youths, but deal with issues facing most African American lifestyles often left out in most major abstinence program.