Worth Waiting For is a multimedia abstinence and moral purity educational program designed for implementation in both the secular and faith arenas. It uses the arts to convey the message of moral purity. The ministry is facilitated totally by peer educators.

Patricia Pearl, a former teacher, founded the ministry in 1997. The ministry was initially designed to reach inner city youth, but now ministers to inner city, rural, suburban and inter-national youth, through mission trips.

The Vision of Worth Waiting For is to help generate change in the cultural attitude and behavior regarding sex outside of marriage.To increase abstinence until marriage among adolescents.

1. Worth Waiting For Ministries include:
   

2. ✤Worth Waiting For and Blood Money
   

3. ✤Worth Waiting For classroom instruction
   

4. ✤Hearts ‘n’ Hands short-term missions, a rural Jamaican children’s outreach, in its 6th year
   

The ministries of Worth Waiting For annually produce the musical drama, Worth Waiting For (w/a cast of 40 teens and pre-teens) attended by over 52,000 since its inception, in 1998. This play is primarily from a young woman’s perspective, while the new play, Blood Money, is from a young man’s point of view.