Description
Available on Kindle!
In the spirit of the author's best-selling book The Real Deal, this new book from Billie Montgomery/Cook ushers young women (ages 18-35) into a warm and welcoming relationship with the women of the Bible. How can this generation of women find mentors in their scriptural sisters? Through the stories of women such as Eve, Sarah, and Vashti, encountering relationship, trust and self-respect issues that many young women of today face. Inspiring, enlightening, and empowering, young women will see themselves in these stories and find hope, love, and faith. Cook includes questions for reflection and discussion with a contemporary mentor as well.
Key features:
• Helps young women to see commonalities with women of the Bible and that their stories can teach us important lessons about life
• Reveals how God moves in our lives and how God is always present
• Shows that it is the "inner stuff" and not the "outside wrapping" that really counts with God
• Includes Scripture passages related to the profiles, questions
Author Bio
Billie Montgomery Cook is a graduate of Spelman College and served as Academic Advancement Advisor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is author of The Real Deal: A Spiritual Guide for Black Teen Girls. Cook is also a local history researcher, writer, and dramaturg.
Churches across the country are using The Real Deal as resource material for Bible studies for singles groups, rites of passage programs for youth, women's retreats, prison ministries and vacation Bible school programming. Additionally, the book is used as the foundation for Billie Cook's "REAL DEAL" workshops and presentations to women and youth groups.