Secret Keeper Girl

In spring of 2010, Dannah Gresh will release her next book for older teens and college-aged women on the subject of sexual purity. This gritty look at the challenging questions that today’s young woman face is something Dannah has been praying over and working on for eight years. During that time, she has been tracing the Hebrew word for sex from Genesis through to Revelation where we see its Greek equivalent. This has provided some amazing insight into God’s thoughts about sex. It promises to deliver powerful biblical truth to a confused generation. As Dannah finishes up the manuscript, she is working with her publisher to find the right title to draw readers  in.  We need your opinion. If you are a teen, college-aged woman or the mom of one, she needs your opinion by Wednesday morning to provide some preliminary feedback to her team at Waterbrook/Multnomah. On Wednesday, we will randomly select a winner to receive ten copies of either And the Bride Wore White or Lies Young Women Believe. To be included in the drawing, you need to answer each of these questions thoroughly in the comments section below. Thanks for your help.

• 1.) How old are you? (If you are the mom of a teen or college aged girl, note that fact along with the age of your daughter.)
• 2.) Which of the titles below do you like the most? Why?
• 3.) Which of the titles below do you like the least? Why?
• 4.) Do you have any title ideas you want to suggest?

What Are You Waiting For? The One-Word Answer to the Love Your Soul Longs For 

A Lotta Yada: The One Thing No One Ever Tells You About Sex 

 ONE: The Surprising One-Word Answer to Your Questions About Sex

Known: Discover the Hidden Beauty of Pure Sexuality 

Revelation Sex: What Are You Waiting For? 

THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY HAS BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED. IT WAS MOLLY! YOU CAN STILL FEEL FREE TO LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK CONCERNING THE TITLE. DANNAH WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR OPINION!

Posted by SKG intern, Melanie Cherland

Secret Keeper Girl has hit the big time, this weekend’s event at Raleigh Christian Community sold out WEEKS ago! In fact, tickets were so hard to come by that one desperate mom even posted an ad requesting tickets on Craig’s List! Her plea was answered and Stephanie and her daughter, Samantha, came to this event as our guests- check out our event pictures and you can find them pictured with Janet and me after the show!

Our new hot pink Secret Keeper Girl t-shirts made their debut in Raleigh, as you can see in the pictures they’re TOTALLY CUTE and were a big hit! I think it was the t-shirts that gave our girls the edge they needed to beat the mom’s in the TIE BREAKER round of our flying saucer game.

More importantly we spent an incredible night with God! Mom’s and daughters bonded while they learned about how God is crafting them into beautiful masterpieces. It’s incredible how much love I saw as I watched these mother’s tie friendship bracelets onto their daughter’s wrists and pray that these girls would see themselves as God sees them.

To wrap up this show Janet had the audience scream and clap for Jesus, it was so loud that our friends in the tech booth said it was over 96 dB’s! (in case you wondered, that’s REALLY LOUD!!) So thank you Raleigh, I think, for exercising our ears a bit. This was truly a SOULED out show!!

Posted By Dannah Gresh, Creator of Secret Keeper GirlOk, ladies! It’s crunch time. Six Ways To Keep the Little in Your Girl is due March 5th, so it can be ready for you to read by September. I am holed up at home this weekend while the rest of my family goes in various directions. (You’ll find Lexi on stage to lead worship at the SOLD OUT Secret Keeper Girl event in Raleigh, N.C. this Saturday night.) I’m hoping to get through enough good writing hours to earn a two-hour movie break on Friday night, but I need your help. As I work on the chapter about Friendship, I need creative ideas from you. If I use your idea, I’ll also include your name in the book.Just answer these questions as a comment, and …I’ll let my facebook friends know if I earned the movie. (Movie suggestions are also happily suggested.) 1.) How do you insert yourself into your daughter’s friendships? Do you lead Awana? Host an after-school book club? Volunteer at school? 2.) What’s the most creative “friend” event you’ve ever done with your daughter and her friends? 3.) How do you say “no” when your daughter wants to do something or having something that “everyone else” is doing or has?

Posted by SKG intern, Melanie Cherland

While the boys watched football Sunday night, the girls flocked to Christ United Methodist Church in Sugar Land for a night of fun with Secret Keeper Girl. The show started off with a bang as our mom’s showed us a bit about the history of fashion, it’s hard to believe people actually wore those clothes! So of course later in the show the daughters were able to show mom what cute and modest fashion looks like today. With a bit of a smaller group we were able to have some more intimate moments talking about true beauty and really praying for mom’s and daughter’s to be able to win the battle of insecurity. Suzy shared with these girls the reality that as daughter’s of the King they are true princesses! Thanks Sugar Land for such a fantastic night!

Posted by SKG intern, Melanie Cherland

Well I certainly can’t think of a better place to be on the night before the historic Saints superbowl victory than the First Baptist Church of West Monroe, Louisiana. Talk about a sea of black and gold, with all of the Saints shirts and painted faces there was no question who our audience was rooting for. Even SKG team member (and major Saints fan) Suzy Weibel went all out for the New Orleans team! These folks were also dedicated Secret Keeper Girl fans- a group from Calvary Baptist Church in Arkansas (pictured below dressed in red) drove over 6 HOURS to be with us!  With all of the energy in that room it’s no wonder we had a fantastic time singing, chatting, and of course dancing the YMCA.

Posted by SKG Intern, Melanie Cherland

Y’all (yes, I picked up some vocabulary this week) what a party! Oak Grove Baptist Church has definitely earned the “most matchy matchy” award for our Texas tour. One group arrived accompanied by a flock of feather boas that left colorful decorations for us all over the church, in fact we’re still finding them in our stage decorations! Another mom and daughter told Dannah (via facebook I believe) that they had made their own t-shirts that read “I <3 my secret keeper girl” and “I <3 my secret keeper mom.” Of course we made sure they modeled them for us up on stage! It seems to me as if the whole town has a lot of flare, one of our fashion show girls did an awesome job of making one of this season’s outfit’s her own by wearing her brightly colored headbands “sweatband style,” I LOVED IT! Thanks Nacogdoches for keeping us entertained all night long!

Posted by SKG Intern, Melanie Cherland

WOW KINGWOOD! You officially rocked my socks off-in fact it’s hard for me to even remember what socks look like! Woodridge Baptist Church was packed with moms and daughters, and even more so packed with excitement, this Thursday night as they discovered what true beauty is all about with our SKG team!What stuck out to me even more than the incredible energy brought on by our raving fans in the audience, were the volunteers that helped put us put on such an incredible show. From before we arrived until after we walked out the doors Miss Linda and her team were ready and willing to preform any task we needed. Some of our volunteers, as you can see in the pictures below, were so dedicated they flowed from one task to another without stopping for breath- such as our model moms who doubled as merchandise saleswomen. Their children’s ministry pastor was dedicated enough to actually put on a Secret Keeper Girl shirt. Now that’s a confident man! You gotta love a guy like that!

My name is Melanie and I’m the new SKG intern- that means that I’m going to be on stage at ALL of the events this spring, starting THIS WEEK! I’m SO excited to meet some of you girls (and moms) plus I get to travel to states I’ve never been to. States like Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Tenessee, and Mississippi. We’ll also be going through some states I HAVE been to- Texas, North Carolina, Illinois, and Ohio. Phew! It’s going to be a crazy tour- crazy fun!

This week I’ve been preparing for our marathon of 4 events in 4 days in Texas and Louisiana- There was a LOT of packing to do. Check out some pictures of me getting SKG ready to hit the road!

Posted by Dannah Gresh

Hi moms and Secret Keeper Girls. No doubt, you’ve heard about the devastation in Haiti and may even be considering how you can help. I have a great idea for you. Holt International is the 2010 sponsor of the Secret Keeper Girl Tour. They are a leader in international adoption and orphan care. (We met them when we adopted our daughter Autumn in 2007, and we love them.) Specifically, my friend Kris Thompson is our liaison to Holt. Kris was in Haiti Tuesday with the Christian singing group Julian Drive who was visiting Holt Fontana Children’s Village. Kris and the band are still there, helping with the aftermath. None of the orphans was harmed, but some of the staff members lost family members. They continue to work faithfully. As you can imagine, Haiti has a lot of new orphans this week who will need love, support and possibly new families. Please pray for Kris and the staff at Fontana Children’s Village. If you want to do more than pray, consider giving to Holt’s Emergency Relief Fund for orphans in Haiti.