"The world desperately needs women who have been deeply transformed by Jesus."
One organizing question shapes all twelve months: What lies keep women from living as daughters of God? Each month exposes one lie and replaces it with truth. Four quarters follow the greatest commandment: heart, soul, mind, strength.
Each day has one simple rhythm that takes about fifteen minutes: read the day's chapters, sit in stillness with a written prayer, and choose one line to carry into the day. Day seven is catch-up. Four times a year all of the groups come together: Women's Nights land in the first and third quarters, and Woman Year gatherings land in the second and fourth. These dates are on the year calendar; they may not fall on the last week.
This is a working draft. Read Month 1, walk a 15-minute day, and mark it up.
Contents. A complete first draft of a 12-month discipleship year for the women of Good Shepherd Church: twelve monthly playbooks (48 weeks of teaching essays, written prayers across the 12 domains of a woman's life, weekly practices, personal audits, group discussions, habit trackers, and intake and exit self assessments), a 15-minute daily path, four quarterly gatherings on the year calendar, plus the collateral in the kit. Print a month or a quarter as a booklet. Online journaling fields stay on the daily pages. Every page is print-ready.
Sources. Structure: the twelve Man Year playbooks, provided by Katie, reduced to their skeleton (four quarters of the greatest commandment, the monthly module chain, tracker and assessment mechanics); none of their text is used. Voice: Katie's written answers and her nine Good Shepherd sermons from 2024 to 2026. Conviction: the two-year, 110-sermon Good Shepherd pulpit corpus, plus the teachers the leaders named: Bevere, Sprinkle, Wilkin, Tyson, Willard.
Verification. Read end to end as one book, four editorial passes, roughly 300 Scripture references checked against the text. Around 48 marked spots still need the leaders' own voice. Everything is draft until the leaders approve it.
Women's Nights land in the first and third quarters, and Woman Year gatherings, where groups that meet near one another share an evening, land in the second and fourth. They are part of the plan itself, on the year calendar; they may not fall on the last week. [LEADERS: dates, venues, how near-groups are drawn.]
All Woman Year women together. A night to talk, worship, and speak words of life: each woman hears one specific thing another woman has watched God do in her over these twelve weeks.
[LEADERS: date, venue, and worship shape. Table "words of life" can live inside this night.]
Groups that meet near one another come together. A night to talk and enjoy fellowship, maybe with worship. The letters of tested hope stay within your group; this night brings the nearby groups together.
[LEADERS: how near-groups are drawn, date, and whether worship is part of the night.]
All Woman Year women together. The second Women's Night of the year: worship together, then name what God has been doing in rest, the body, and margin.
[LEADERS: date, venue, and how this sits with the table's quieter naming.]
Groups that meet near one another come together around commissioning. An evening of food and fellowship as the year closes, with worship if the leaders choose. The laying on of hands and sending can stay within your group while the nearby groups share the night.
[LEADERS: how this sits with the commissioning night; protect that date first.]
Start with Month 1: Daughter First, then open Day 1 and walk the 15-minute path. Tell us where the voice is wrong, where a practice would not land, and where we missed your women. Use the button in the corner anytime.
Then visit the Design Lab: 50 visual treatments for the book (covers, type, pages, palettes). Pick favorites by number and the whole system rebuilds in that direction. Ready to choose for real? The Three Skins puts Month 1's opening essay in three complete visual directions, side by side. Reply 1, 2, or 3.
Handing this to a designer? Send them to Handoff. It holds the print-styled pages as they stand, and every month as a text file and an InDesign file with the paragraph styles already in it, so she never retypes a word. The pill in the corner of every page goes to the same place.
Thinking about changing a month? Nothing gets lost. Saved copies keeps the version a rewrite replaced, frozen and readable, plus the whole draft as a plain-text file you can download and keep on your own computer.
And when you are ready to show someone else: the Collateral Kit holds the one-pager, the competitive landscape, and the leader FAQ, each one print-ready for handing to a leader or an elder.