Why Would We Want To “Save Our Girls”?

One might wonder why a mom of three SONS would co-author a book called Raising a Modern Day Princess.
(Focus on the Family, co-authored with Doreen Hanna). Or ask you to join her to “save our girls”.

Well, I have spent a lifetime mentoring, discipling and equipping women and girls.

Hundreds of them.

And each year, I get more and more concerned about the world they face. Some days it is just HARD to be a woman of integrity, let
alone a girl pursuing goodness. They need our help.  (And God has asked us to mentor our girls: see 2 Tim.2:2, Titus 2:3-5)

Your daughters, the girls of the next generation, need YOU! They need me! Why?  Because their crown
is slipping! Consider these startling statistics from our book, Raising a Modern Day Princess:

• One in three girls becomes pregnant before age 20.3
• One in four will contract a STD (sexually transmitted disease)
• Forty percent of girls at a contraceptive clinic are there without their parents’ knowledge.
• One third of all teen pregnancies will end in an abortion.
• Nearly one-third of all juvenile arrests are girls, and one-third of all property crimes are perpetrated by girls.
• About one-quarter of all aggravated assaults are committed by girls.
• Girls are more likely to be violent at home, and the victim more than any other is her mother.

(Watch this short video for even more on what girls face these days.  Read an excerpt of Modern Day Princess book at Focus  on the Family. )

So what can we do? What Can YOU do? (Pick any or all of the following):

• Go to www.saveourgirls.org and get informed
• Gather a group of moms/ mentors to pray any time on Save Our Girls Day to Pray, Wednesday  Oct 17. (Verses to pray at  http://saveourgirls.org/prayer.html)
• Pray with your own daughter or girls you mentor on Oct 17 (sample prayers)
• “Like” Save Our Girls facebook page. Each day verses, prayers and encouragements are posted now thru Oct
  17—
• Post a picture of you and your daughter on the Save Our Girls page and let’s pray for each other’s children
• Order Raising a Modern Day Princess for you and Becoming a Modern Day Princess Journal
  for your daughter
• Send the www.saveourgirls.org link to your pastor, Director of Women’s Ministry, or Youth pastor or Youth Pastor’s wife
  and volunteer to plant a group in your church.
• Gather some moms together and team to run a ModernDay Princess group for your daughters (7 week program)
• Host a mom and daughter Princess Party (Pam and/or Doreen are available to speak if you’d like to host an event for more than 100.(For Pam or Doreen speaking, click to contact) For smaller groups: Princess Party in a Box is available at www.moderndayprincess.net)
• Start a Modern Day Princess program in your community as an outreach to the most at risk girls
• Get equipped to be a stronger mentor or mom through one of Pam’s books for women: BraveNew Woman, Woman of Influence, Devotions for Women on the Go, 10 Best Decisions a Woman Can Make.
• Post Save Our Girls logo on your social media  and invite others to pray on Oct 17 through your :Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest pages.
• On Oct. 17, stop at noon PT and take 5 minutes (or more) and pray for the next generations of girls and post a prayer at noon on your social media page to say “pray with me to save our girls”.
• Listen to the Focus on the Family weekend broadcast about How to Raise a Modern Day Princess.
• Tune into the interview with authors of Raising a Modern Day Princess, Pam and Doreen on Homeword with Jim Burns and get equipped to strengthen the next generation
• Tell your local media, print up postcards, or bookmarks– spread the word! (All the tools to do this are on the Save Our Girls
  website)

Today’s girls need you . . can you help us “save our girls?”

Here is my heart’s motivation, my two granddaughters who I pray will be strong women of God in their generation- true Modern
Day Princesses who walk as Daughters of our God, “The King of Kings”.

Together we can make a difference—for the girls!

October 17 @ noon

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special  possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you  out of darkness into His wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)