The Girlhood Home Companion is available in single print issues or  subscriptions  
 

Since resuming publication in 2006,  
our new topics of study  include:

Becoming a Faith-filled Daughter
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Mother and Daughters Holding Hands
(Taking Responsibility)
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Clothing Your Spirit
in Beauty

(Due May 1st, 2008)
 

Also available in our Girlhood Store:

 

 

  The Girlhood Back Issue  Album~
All 13 Lovely Back Issues in One Album.
Hours and Hours of Delightful Reading

Hospitality & Servanthood
Ministering Kindness
Gratitude
Godly Contentment
A Quiet & Gentle Spirit
Trusting In the Lord
Courage
Dependability
Perseverance
Forgiveness
Femininity & Grace
Obedience
& Patience

370 pages  
Perfect Bound
 

Available for purchase
in The Girlhood Store

 

"I received my back issue compilation of Girlhood Home Companion about a month ago. It will take me a while to work my way through it, but I have enjoyed what I have read so far. I especially appreciate the spirit in which everything is written, especially since we are surrounded by a culture that denigrates the roles of homemaker and mother. I am leading a group for girls this spring and I tell them the purpose of the club is to equip them to make their homes places of ministry and industry. Girlhood Home Companion is doing a wonderful job equipping me so I can equip them."

Thank You!
Cindy Puhek
 

The Mission of
The Girlhood Home Companion

      Companion. It’s not a word you hear much anymore, but in the 1800’s it was commonly used to describe a young woman’s employment by an older relative or family acquaintance. A mature girl, usually age 12 or older, would be hired to spend countless hours keeping her elderly charge company. While “having tea” or sitting together in the drawing room, the two would discuss matters of general interest and domesticity.
      Besides reading the Bible, it was the companion’s job to read through volumes of books such as Emerson’s Essays and Voices of the Night Ballads and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And if her older counterpart happened to “doze off” during one of those prolonged reading sessions, the younger was free, for a time, to pursue her own interests.
      Being a companion was tiresome work – but not without its rewards, especially if your employer planned to travel abroad. You may remember the scene in Little Women where Jo grumbles about the injustices of having to be the companion of that “crabby old miser” Aunt March. The only bright spot on her horizon was a potential trip to Europe. The relationship between the two March women was strained and hardly represents the true spirit in which companionship is to be given or received.
      The word companion is found only 13 times in the Bible. In the Greek New Testament the word sugkoinonos means: participant with others in anything, a joint partnership. Another word which is closely related to it is sunergos, meaning: a companion of labor, one who labors in furthering the cause of Christ. I think these two words perfectly describe the ministry of The Girlhood Home Companion. We are joint partners with your daughter, helping her to participate in all that is feminine and lovely as she grows in the Lord, and a companion in labor, helping her cultivate godly character qualities, thus furthering the cause of Christ.

                                                          Mrs. Jill E. Novak