Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women Bible Study – Second Edition
FEB 8, 2023
Note from the editor to the Friends of Five Aspects Ministries:
The Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women and the associated Leader’s Guide have been in print since 2000. Except for some editing and a reprint in 2001, the work has remained untouched and in print without hiccups. Now, it had been our plan all along to update and refresh this work, but it kept getting pushed to the back burner. However, late in 2022, due to updates in publishing technology, the print file was no longer publishable, and necessity bore down on us. Updating the Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women became a priority.
I have poured through the pages of this material for the past several weeks, reading, editing, and reformatting every page. And you know what I found? The material is excellent! The content is on point and particularly relevant now—even twenty years later. The original team that adapted the Five Aspects of Woman material for this younger audience really knew what they were doing.
The biggest change is the update to the cover to make it look like the daughter of the Five Aspects of Women. Over six years ago, I showed our family photographer the cover of the Five Aspects of Woman and told her I needed pictures for the cover of the young woman’s version. Could she help? A few weeks later, these pictures arrived in my inbox. I do not think my friend had ever done the Five Aspects, but I think she “nailed” it. The fact that the dress of the girl in the picture is white all the way through, I think, shows an understanding beyond her understanding—a special grace from God.
I humbly submit this work to you for consideration. I personally led a few groups of high school girls through it back in the early 2000s when my husband and I volunteered with our church’s youth group ministry. I remember those times fondly, and most of those young women are now wives and mothers with daughters of their own, and we are all still friends. Now that my own girls are in junior high and high school, I am thinking it is time to return to this work and use it as a very valuable tool in the discipleship of the lovely young ladies in my life and their friends. I hope that you will do the same.
Sincerely,
Kristine Vermillion