Meet Dannah Gresh

One of the top selling youth authors under the age of forty, Dannah Gresh is best known for the best-selling And the Bride Wore White (Moody) and the Secret Keeper series (Moody/FamilyLife).  She is the founder of Pure Freedom.

From Santa Barbara to New Zealand, from Tuscaloosa to Romania, she has sold more than 470,000 books, leaders guides, and curriculum bearing God’s life-giving message of purity. In Zambia, a country of ten million, where nearly a million orphans have lost their moms and dads to AIDS, she presents a biblically-based public school curriculum that is bringing the life-saving message of abstinence to more than 100,000 Zambian children, many for the first time. And here in America, over 20,000 Pure Freedom retreats have been led by individual moms, dads, and youth pastors while more than 42,000 mothers and daughters have worked their way through the Secret Keeper Girl 8-week Bible study. That’s more than 325,000 dates with mom! Dannah has personally guided more than 10,000 teenagers through the 15-hour Pure Freedom weekend retreat.

Dannah is a frequent guest on national radio and television programs such as Focus on the Family, The 700 Club and Canada’s Huntley Street. Her FamilyLife Today program was among the top ten shows in 2001. In 2006, her Midday Connection program featuring The Secret of the Lord garnered an unprecedented response resulting in a follow-up program within one month.  Dannah has also been a featured contributor to magazines including Today’s Christian Woman, Brio, New Man and Spirit Led Woman.

In 2007, Dannah focuses on the launch of Five Little Questions that Reveal the Life God Designed for You (Thomas Nelson).

Dannah, Bob, Lexi and Rob live in State College, PA with their wonder dog, Stormie the Labradoodle! They eagerly await the arrival of a new daughter from China.

Event & Publicity Management Contact : Eileen King : 814-234-6072
Speaking Agent Contact : Ambassador Agency : 615-370-4700

Dannah Gresh : Speaking on Purity

As a young married woman and a new mom, I was driving down the highway listening to the familiar voice of Dr. James Dobson. Suddenly, the host asked his guest, "What  is the most common question a young girl will ask her mom about sex?" Without delay the woman responded, "Mom, did you wait?"

I pulled my minivan to the side of the highway and allowed ten years of tremendous denial and grief to engulf me. My heart's desire was, is and always will be to live a lifestyle of purity, but in high school I detoured from that pursuit long enough to get tangled up by lust. Like no other sin, moments of unbridled passion had intertwined my life painfully into another's.

That evening, it took me three hours to tell my husband in the darkness of my bedroom. Satan had me cornered into a prison of blackmail until the very moment that my lips uttered my long-awaited confession. Oh, how I wish I had done that sooner. Christ's forgiveness finally verbalized in the midst of my husband's warm familiar embrace suddenly began to heal the deep tear in my heart.

Within weeks of that scenario, 26-year old Dannah Gresh was before a group of a dozen teenage girls from her church leading her first purity retreat. Within a year she'd been before state-wide audiences to share her testimony and within two years, she'd partnered with Moody Press to bring her story and the proven risk reducers she'd discovered to today's teen girls through "And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets To Sexual Purity."

"The problem when I was a teen was not that I did not want to live a life of purity," says Dannah. "It's just that no one was telling me HOW to do that."
Dannah's book and purity events focus on equipping today's teens to be successful in their desires to live a life of purity. Dannah uses solid Biblical truth combined with the intelligence of social science to reduce the risk in the lives of teen girls.

And the Bride Wore White has touched over 180,000 young women in multiple countries. Dannah has been a featured guest on programs like the 700 Club, Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, Midday Connection and Canada's 100 Huntley Street.  She's written articles for Today's Christian Parenting, CBN.com, Crosswalk.com and other national magazines and websites.

Dannah facilitates Pure Freedom Events for teen girls, one day Mother/Daughter events, and speaks at other conferences and events around the country. For information email eileen@purefreedom.org.