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Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce the 2006 Elsie Dinsmore Essay Contest winners. Vision Forum was delighted to receive nearly four hundred entries, and selecting a winner was no easy task. Our final winners were selected not only for prose style, but more importantly for answering the question presented with precision and insight. We hope you enjoy the essays. Congratulations to our winners and the runners-up!

Blessings,
Doug and Beall Phillips

Congratulations to Our Essay Winners!

FIRST PLACE
Mikaela Cash
Prize: $500 Vision Forum Passport Gift Certificate
Engrafted into the heart of each and every girl throughout the entire world is an unconscious yearning — a craving, if you will. Anyone who is identified as female, and who has not yet undergone the rigorous brainwashing of a humanistic and secular culture finds herself admiring those girls and ladies who love the Lord with their very existence. Read the Full Essay
 
SECOND PLACE
Holly Williams
Prize: $200 Vision Forum Passport Gift Certificate
Are Christian virtues such as faith, forgiveness, humility, diligence, patience, obedience, respect of elders, and reverence for the Lord and His Word too outdated to be modeled by girls in today’s “sophisticated” society? God forbid that such a thought should ever enter into the mind of any Christian parent or their daughter! The commands of Scripture are timeless! They are just as relevant to today’s girls as they were for the Bedouin daughters of the Old Testament patriarchs, and they will continue to stand til the end of time. Read the Full Essay
 
THIRD PLACE
Mary Nicklas
Prize: $100 Vision Forum Passport Gift Certificate
In 1913 a book was given as a gift to my great grandmother, Marian Ruth Pack Carl, from her Sunday School teachers. She gave it to my grandmother to give to my mother. Eventually, this book was passed on to me. It is an 1896 edition of the timeless Elsie novel! The ladies in my family have been enjoying this book for nearly 100 years. Read the Full Essay