VIRTUE Girls began over 10 years ago as a thought that came to me when I first started teaching.  It wasn’t until a couple of years later, though, that a ministry was launched in a meeting room connected to a pizza place.  We had Bible study there for six years, at first every other week, and then weekly.  It is where I found my heart-  ministering to others.  Before VIRTUE girls, if you would’ve asked me what I wanted to do with my life, I would’ve said, teach, coach basketball, maybe be a principal someday… and that was the extent of my dreams.  I should’ve known better, as God had been putting His Words on the inside of me ever since I was a little girl.  And so, VIRTUE girls introduced me to my heart to minister, especially to young women, to teach them the value that God places on their lives, to show them too the value that He places on His Word, and that they really could trust Him with their lives.  We had SO MUCH fun there.  We laughed, we danced, we shared, we enjoyed the Word, we ate LOTS of pizza.  Girls gave their lives to Jesus.  We learned.  We grew.  I grew.

To make the story much shorter than it actually is, some changes took place, and it became clear that it was time to move on to another phase of ministry, as I was asked to begin leading our college/young adult ministry at the church I attended.  That lasted for about 4 years until recently God moved me into a season of rest.  That being said, ending that initial chapter of VIRTUE Girls, wasn’t easy, even though it was certainly God.  Driving away from the pizza place that last night, I had peace, but I felt like I was leaving a big piece of my heart behind.  At some point, after that, possibly when I was reminiscing, I felt like the Lord whispered to my heart that VIRTUE Girls wasn’t over.  And in fact, had only begun.  I think I took that mostly to mean that the girls whose lives were touched by it had been impacted eternally.

Yes, certainly many lives were changed, and one couldn’t place a price on a soul that has received Jesus.  But I felt like the Lord was calling me to write again, specifically to start a blog called VIRTUE GIRLS BLOG to share words that God placed on my heart.  It’s been a few years since I felt that pull, and I haven’t written as much as I’d like to.  But here I stay.  I hope lives have been touched and are continually touched as they happen across here.  But even if this is just for one person, if it just helps one, every moment spent blogging would be worth it.

I do know that we live in a day and age in which people are online.  So much of the information that we get comes from our smart phones, our tablets, etc.  Much less of the information that is received comes from the pulpit, comes from the Bible, comes from Godly parenting… Thus, so much of the information that is received is skewed, is twisted, is false.  Women are bombarded with so many darkened messages as to where their true value is found.  And people everywhere really, whether they know it or not, are crying out for truth.

Yes, this generation will be reached, and one of the ways it will be reached is through social media, through Holy Spirit inspired blogs, through a repost, even through a hashtag.  And that is a big part of what I think is the mission of this site, to be a light in the dark, to meet people right where they are at… right at home on their electronic device of choice.

I know God is at work everywhere, encouraging hearts, teaching wisdom, showing people that Jesus Christ is the only way, that God’s Word really is the best way, and that there is no life more exciting than the one that is found in Him.

So that brings me to now, and I genuinely hope that something on this site will be an encouragement to you, will challenge you, will reveal truth to you, will help change a mindset, all with one goal in mind- to point you to JESUS , the ONE who loves YOU most.