• All God asks of us is to be willing to be used of Him. You will need women with a willing heart, a desire to invest in the lives of young women, and experience as a wife, homemaker, and mother.
  
• Seek out young women who desire to be discipled by older women and have them commit to joining a Secrets small group.
• You will need to purchase the Secrets Savored Book One Leader Guide which is complete with lesson plans for 8-10 weeks of instruction. Note: There are four books of curriculum within the Secrets study. See curriculum/shop on our website.
• You will need to purchase one copy of the Secrets Savored Student Workbook which is a companion guide for those young women participating in the class.
• Use the free informational DVD download to introduce your church staff and the women within your church or community to the Secrets ministry.

• Begin to asking women in your sphere of influence to pray about being involved in a ministry that creates community between the generations and disciples young women in the practical and spiritual aspects of life.
• Have a coffee or tea and invite the women whom you feel might be an asset to the ministry and are potentially willing to invest in the lives of young women.
• Visit small groups (Life groups, Sunday School classes, etc.) in your church, and share what you desire to accomplish through implementing the Secrets ministry. Ask for those present to pray about being involved.
• Share your heart and desire to reach young women with women in your church/community, and then introduce them to Secrets through the website, the material offered, and the informational DVD download.
• When hosting a tea or visiting a group, invite a young woman to go with you and share her desire to be discipled practically and spiritually by an older woman.

• Pray them in! If God has laid the desire on your heart to disciple young women using the Secrets curriculum, pray for God to raise up the young women. Ask Him to place within their hearts a need for community with older women.
• From a practical perspective, go where they are!
• Place the Secrets flyer provided on this website’s Resource page in the young married and nursery areas of your church and on your church’s website. Place a post on Social Media announcing the registration for the Secrets class. Place flyers on bulletin boards in local grocery stores, at the local YMCA, and at Mother’s Day Out programs.
• Target neighborhoods consisting of young families and leave flyers on their front door.
• For reaching single young women, place flyers on bulletin boards at local colleges, in the college and singles area of your church, at the local grocery stores, and workout facilities in your community.
• Visit classes or small groups within your church, and tell the young women about the Secrets ministry. Invite them to be a part and to bring a friend!

• Start slow. When beginning, do not try to implement too many classes. Start with one or two and establish these classes before adding any additional classes. Note: We started with two classes, a nighttime and a daytime class. We offered these for two years before adding any additional classes.
• View Secrets as an on-going ministry—not a program! Year after year, make it a part of your overall Women’s Ministry.
• Use the curriculum books consecutively. There are four books of curriculum, covering four semesters or two years. Note: We began with Book One and Book Two offering one in the fall and the other in the winter. Books Three and Four were added later. We now have young women taking the Secrets classes for two years working through all four books.
• Follow the structure covered in the Leader Guide. Example: Meet weekly, have 3-4 older women for every group of 10-12 young women, etc. Note: In the Structure and Components sections of the Leader Guide, we have laid a format that we have found to be successful.
• Allow young women to repeat a class if they so desire. Note: Many young women have wanted to repeat a year’s study, and we have allowed them to do so. When a young woman wants to return, this means it is meeting a need in her life.
• Meet in a host home. This creates a much more inviting atmosphere, a sense of community, and is less intimidating than meeting at a church. Note: We have found that young women love to be in the homes of the older women. This gives the young women a good example of what hospitality looks like. 
• There is something very inviting about being in a home kitchen; women are comfortable there. Most home kitchens are equipped with everything needed to instruct the classes.
• “Being perfect isn’t as important as being real.”
• BE REAL! BE OPEN! BE TRANSPARENT! If you want to reach young women and have an impact on their lives, you must be genuine! They are not looking for perfection; in fact, perfection or the appearance of perfection will turn them away. Note: We have all made mistakes along the way. The young women need to know that. Perhaps they can learn from our mistakes and avoid some heartache as they journey through life.

• No! We are all gifted differently, and that is what makes this ministry work so beautifully! Each discipling leader brings something uniquely different to the table of ministry.
• This ministry is not about “perfection,” but women with a genuinely open and honest heart to disciple young women practically and spiritually.
• If you will offer yourself to the young women involved, God will use your gifts and life experiences to bless each one.

Yes, young women absolutely do want to be around older godly women! Note: I wasn’t convinced of this until two things happened to help me see that young women desire and even long to be around, learn from, and have their lives impacted by women who are further down the road.

• The first was an event, a Women’s Leadership Conference, where the attendees were given the option of choosing several breakout sessions. I selected a breakout on how to reach this current generation. As a part of the session, a young woman was interviewed, and what she said changed my mind on the question of whether or not young women want to be around us. She said, “First of all, we want to know if they (older Christian women) are real. They may go to church and even say they are Christians, but does their life reflect it? Do they give to the poor and sacrifice for the needs of others? Secondly, we want to be in their homes. We want to see how this Christian life is lived out. We want to see what a Christian home looks like.” I left that breakout session convinced that God was onto something in placing the Secrets ministry in my heart. He used that session to confirm the great need and desire for this ministry in the lives of young women.
• The second thing God has used to convince me of the necessity of this ministry is the evidence of the changed lives of the young women who have participated since we began several years ago. God knows the needs of the young women of today. They desperately need godly role models; not perfect older women, but older women willing to disciple them  practically and spiritually.
• It is a lie of the enemy that young women do not want to be around older women. It is also a lie that we as older women are not equipped to disciple young women. All God wants is a willing heart. If you are willing to be used by Him, He will give you all you need to fulfill His mandate in Titus 2 for older women to disciple young women. He will use you in ways you never dreamed to encourage and instruct the young women He brings into your life.