About Us
Our Story
This website was created by the team ministry of Scarlett Stough and Nancy Vandemark. It was first published January 2002.
Our Mission Statement is:
To encourage, comfort, strengthen, instruct and exhort women to pursue active love in good works toward God, family, and community. To inspire them to develop their abilities and to exercise their freedom in Christ to be full participants in the Body of Christ.
Our aim is to trust, worship, and serve God through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit according to our understanding of The Holy Scriptures. We recognize the authority of both the Hebrew Scriptures (The Old Testament) and the Apostolic Writings (The New Testament) as the inspired Word of God.
We are driven by values
Our practice is to aim for obedience to the will of God as stated in The Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus.
We celebrate the Sabbath on the seventh day from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset and the Biblical festivals observed by the first century church which are listed in Leviticus 23.
We believe that God distributes spiritual gifts among men and women and all races and nationalities; that God expects each believer to develop and use those gifts to benefit others.
We believe that each believer in Christ is responsible to grow in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus and to be convinced in his or her own mind about what to believe and practice. Individual authors are not necessarily of the same denominational beliefs as the publisher.
The team behind
Scarlett Stough has been the primary author of our Bible Study Guides and Women in Christ Commentaries. She has also written many of our From the Abundance of the Heart and Exhortation essays.
Nancy Vandemark has handled the technical aspects of the website and has also written editorial notes for each issue.
Through the years, we have published other individuals essays.