Vicki Courtney

Vicki Courtney is a speaker and author and the founder of Virtuous Reality Ministries, which seeks to encourage and equip teenagers and mothers to address cultural concerns from a Christian perspective, with an emphasis on virtuous living. [ http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/files/lwcF_corp_factsandtrends_06MarchApril.pdf Facts and Trends magazine: “Get in the trenches to protect your girls”]

Courtney began her speaking ministry in 1995 and then developed Virtuous RealityMinistries in 1998. Initially her ministry was geared toward college women, but when they began telling her they wished they had heard her message sooner, she began including younger girls in her ministry audience. [http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/files/lwcF_corp_factsandtrends_06MarchApril.pdf Facts and Trends magazine: “Get in the trenches to protect your girls”] Today her national ministry’s website, resources, and events reach 150,000 teenagers and mothers each year. [http://www.phenixpublicity.com/2007_div_press/bio_release.php?book_id=237 Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists AP Press Release] Courtney’s 2005 "TeenVirtue" project won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Medallion of Excellence. [http://www.bhpublishinggroup.com/article.asp?article=69 B&H Publishing Group: “Vicki Courtney's TeenVirtue wins ECPA Christian Book Award”]

In 2000, Courtney launched her online Virtuous Reality magazine for college women and later expanded it to reach middle school and high school girls and mothers. Her Yada Yada events focus on seventh graders through twelfth graders, while Yada Yada Junior events are designed for girls in third grade through sixth grade and their mothers. Courtney’s You and Your Girl mother/daughter events, hosted by LifeWay Christian Resources, focus on the keys to helping young women be confident and resist cultural pressures against purity and modesty. Her website Virtue Alert is designed to give mothers a quick look at current issues that they may face with their teenagers and strategies for how to address them. [http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/files/lwcF_corp_factsandtrends_06MarchApril.pdf Facts and Trends magazine: “Get in the trenches to protect your girls”]

Biography

As a junior in college, Vicki Courtney was a self-proclaimed agnostic and feminist, who strongly opposed Christianity. [http://www.phenixpublicity.com/2007_div_press/bio_release.php?book_id=237 Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists AP Press Release] At the same time, she struggled against an eating disorder and was experiencing guilt after an abortion. [http://www.baptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?id=5469 Baptist Press: “Courtney takes message of hope, forgiveness to women on university campuses”] Still, she agreed to go to a Christian conference with a friend. It was there that she became a Christian. Today Courtney lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Keith. They are the parents of three teenagers. [http://www.phenixpublicity.com/2007_div_press/bio_release.php?book_id=237 Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists AP Press Release]

elected works

Logged On and Tuned Out, ISBN 0805446656
TeenVirtue Confidential, ISBN 0805441921
Between, ISBN 080544193X
Your Boy: Raising a Godly Son in an Ungodly World, ISBN 0805430555
TeenVirtue, winner of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Medallion of Excellence, ISBN 0805430563
Your Girl: Raising a Godly Daughter in an Ungodly World, ISBN 0805430539

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External links

[http://www.vickicourtney.com/ VickiCourtney official website]
[http://virtuousreality.com/ Virtuous Reality]
[http://virtuealert.com/ Virtue Alert]
[http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/ LifeWay Christian Resources]