Today's blog comes from Brittney Mc Cook. Brittney has had the joy of serving the Lord in student ministry as a Bible teacher, small group leader, event planner, T-shirt folder, and coffee shop psychologist for over 6 years and wouldn’t change it for the world. She currently serves as one of the Bible Study Teacher for Pillars Girls Ministry at First Baptist Canton in Canton, Ga & is the Founder of Radiant Girl Ministries. Check out their blog at www.radiantgirlministries.blogspot.com.
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Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name” Ps 86:11
The other day I met with a good friend of mine for some lunch and some good old’ fashioned girl talk. As we were sharing with each other all the exciting things God was doing in our lives, she informed me that she would be heading to Iran in April for 5 months to teach English. I knew it had taken her a long time to be okay with leaving everything here in the States to go where God was calling and leading her...so I was more excited than sad.
As blessed as we both were to have grown up in the same student ministry, and even had the same mentor when we were in our late teens/early twenties, no one ever told us what do you do between 16 and the wedding day.We both so deeply longed for a earthly romance, and thought surely by 25 it would have happened by now! We felt we were groomed to live for "that day" and that life only began when you met “the one.” No one every told us that marriage was a gift not a goal. For so many years we both struggled with this whole being single thing. It took us both a long time to learn the beauty of this season and gift of time that God has given us.
I wish someone would have told me before I set my foot into high school and especially college to not chase a relationship but to instead to chase Jesus. Learn to love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind. Instead of wishing away this season embrace it as the gift it is; that until you have a good grasp on you're identity in Christ, fall head over heels in love with Jesus, and are satisfied in Christ alone...a relationship is the last thing you need to be worried about.
It wasn't until I was about 22 or 23 that my heart finally caught up with my head that there really was a reason for this season. God began to cultivate a desire in my heart to be a lady of dilegence and maximize all this spare time I had for His glory. I have time now that I may not have one day to serve, invest, teach, travel, and most importantly to spend with Jesus. By all means; dream, desire, but don’t wish this season away. There is a reason for it.
That's something we need to communicate to teen girls as well.





Our guest blog today comes from Hannah Wakefield, a senior at Union University in Jackson, TN. She has spent the past three summers working with fifth and sixth grade girls at WinShape Camp for Girls in Rome, Georgia. During the school year, she serves as the Girls' J-Step Coordinator for Evangelical Community Church's urban ministry, making dinner and doing Bible study with sixth grade girls on Tuesday nights.
Today's blog comes from Meredith Cromer, Program Specialist in Student Training & Events at LifeWay. Before starting at LifeWay, Meredith served several summers as a Fuge Summer Staffer and then worked as a Student Ministry Associate for two years at Rolling Hills Community Church in Franklin, TN. Meredith has a huge heart to teach girls how to live on mission for the Lord everyday, wherever they are, whatever they're doing.

Today's guest blog comes from Joe Hicks, a dad of three daughters, so he knows a lot about girl world.He works at LifeWay Christian Resources as Team Leader for Fuge Camps. Before coming to Nashville he was the program director at Jenness Park, a camp in northern California, and before that he was a campus minister at Palm Beach Atlantic College. He and his wife, Michelle (one of the regular bloggers on Inside Girls' Ministry) have three children—Karis (17), Kali (15), and Kaia (11). 