The mission of the Young Ladies Christian Fellowship is to promote a standard of Christian femininity. We seek to provide encouragement and fellowship for women young and old, by way of inspirational writings and musings, and through testimony and parables of everyday living. It is our goal to facilitate relationships and friendships for like-minded women the world over, under the banner of a common faith in Jesus Christ.
Values of the YLCF
- We value the Bible as the holy, inspired, inerrant Word of God, and esteem it as the ultimate standard for life.
- We value a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. This relationship is achieved only through reliance on the finished and redemptive work of Christ and is received by grace through faith. (Click here to read more about how to know Christ.)
- We value the worth of women and their intrinsic, God-given significance in the Kingdom.
- We value the distinctive role that women can play in the Body of Christ, whether married or single, parents or childless.
- We value the completed-ness of a human being in Christ. We do not consider a single woman to be “incomplete.” She may be waiting on God for a husband, but she is not deficient in any way to live up to her ultimate potential in Christ.
- We value the permanence of marriage and esteem it as something to be entered into only with the greatest solemnity and awe as a sacred vow before God.
- We value the voluntary submission of a wife to her husband as expressed in Scripture, not as a position of less importance or of subordination, but as befits the God-instituted and God-emulated structuring of a family.
- We value the God-given role of parents. We see this as a role of command for the child, transitioning gradually to a role of counsel as maturity is reached.
- We value children, born and unborn, as a blessing and a gift from God.
- We value the home as an institution of God and homemaking a high calling that is worthy to be considered as a career.
- We value the responsibility of older women to instruct and encourage the younger as expressed in Scripture, and believe that all women are an “older woman” to someone.
What our readers are saying…
“YLCF is a fun, traditional, honest and sweet website. When you read the blogs after a few weeks you feel like you know the writers for real.” -Rachael
“YLCF is an online meeting place for Christian young ladies who are sincerely devoted to following the Lord. It is a place of encouragement that often refreshes, inspires, and encourages me. One thing I love about YLCF is that it is so supportive of homeschooling, being a daughter, being a wife-in-preparation, and being a whole-hearted Christian. It is a place that connects like-minded young ladies from all over the world. It is here that they can feel they belong somewhere and that they are understood. YLCF provides companionship that encourages me when I feel lonely and isolated. It reassures me that I am not the only good, godly girl left in the world who lives by high standards. It is such a blessing to know like-minded young ladies, through the blog and articles. YLCF encourages girls who are different, for His sake, to keep being different. It encourages young ladies in purity and usefulness as they walk through the difficult, waiting period of singleness.” -Whitney
History of the YLCF
The ministry of the Young Ladies Christian Fellowship as we know it began back in January 1991, with cousins Melissa Brink and Gretchen Glaser (then 6 and 7 years old).
Funding for YLCF
The YLCF is a non-profit ministry. Everyone involved with the YLCF helps out on a volunteer basis. The website hosting is funded entirely by commission from online book retailers we partner with. Your click-throughs and orders of the books we link to, and your purchases using the online book store search boxes in the sidebar, are what enables ylcf.org to stay online–thank you!
If you wish, you may also donate directly to the YLCF through PayPal (but please note that donations are not tax-deductable at this time).
Please Note
The writers featured on ylcf.org are all readers of a broad range of subjects and authors. Each quote, link, or book recommendation does not necessarily imply an endorsement of every writing or statement from that particular author or website. Nor are the individual opinions expressed in posts and comments always those of YLCF or every Team Member.
Copyright/Reprint Policy of the YLCF
All writing, photography, and other content/ideas on ylcf.org is copyright by its author and/or the Young Ladies Christian Fellowship. All rights are reserved. Reprinting is not permitted in any form without written permission from the author, except for short quotations for review/linking purposes. When you quote/link, please be sure to credit the author’s name, the Young Ladies Christian Fellowship, and the full source URL. Thank you!
