About Our Founder

Wynter Pitts started FOR GIRLS LIKE YOU with a deep passion and a vision to see her girls growing in their walk with Jesus. Along the way she picked up thousands more tween girls that would grow right along with hers, as she poured her life and love for the Word of God out through her pen and through her life. Though she left this earth far too early, her impact continues to grow and her words continue to speak.

For Girls Like You Ministries is honored and grateful to keep Wynter’s ministry impact and legacy alive through continuing to publish FOR GIRLS LIKE YOU MAGAZINE, along with other print and digital resources for tween girls and their parents.

In addition, For Girls Like You Ministries will be creating experiences through events and missions trips that will seek to further train and equip tween girls both in tangible and practical ways.

If you’d like to support our ministry financially, we invite you to prayerfully consider joining us as a monthly partner or with a one time gift.

For Girls Like You Ministries is a Tennessee Non-profit Corporation and its application for recognition of 501(c)3 status is pending with the Internal Revenue Service.

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Meet Wynter

Wynter Pitts was a gifted writer, loving wife and mother, and the founder of this ministry.  She was passionately dedicated to helping girls and their parents grow in God. Wynter was the author of several books, including You’re God’s Girl, She Is Yours, and For Girls Like You. Wynter unexpectedly went home to be with the Lord on July 24, 2018. She lives behind a rich legacy through her ministry and her many writings but more importantly in her four daughters—Alena, Kaitlyn, Camryn, and Olivia.

Wynter started FOR GIRLS LIKE YOU magazine in 2012 because she had four girls (Alena, Kaitlyn, Camryn and Olivia) who she wanted to influence, specifically her oldest daughter, Alena, who was 7 at the time. She poured her heart and soul into creating this magazine for seven years. She interviewed, wrote, edited, designed and laid out the pages—she touched every part. This was a heart work for her, but it was a heart work that started with her FOUR girls that then spilled over into a bigger community: FOR Girls Like You.

This community and her family suffered an unspeakable loss when Wynter unexpectedly went home to be with the Lord on the evening of Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in Dallas, Texas.

In the days that followed, they took comfort in knowing that Wynter left them with a job to do. Her family and our staff continue publishing this magazine as an important Kingdom work and  are committed to continuing the  mission and vision she began: to empower and equip girls to walk boldly into becoming who God has created them to be, and to provide parents with the resources and support needed to raise strong Christ followers.

A Little More

The ministry was humbly launched out of Wynter’s house on a borrowed laptop in 2012 as a quarterly print magazine. During the next several years, FOR GIRLS LIKE YOU amassed several thousand subscribers from every state in the union, as well as readers in Australia, South Africa, England, and various other countries around the world.

As the magazine grew, God opened other doors. In 2015, Wynter published her first book, For Girls Like You: A Devotional for Tweens. Miraculously, she published seven more books in just three years: You’re God’s Girl: A Devotional for Tweens (2016); You’re God’s Girl Coloring Book (2017); She is Yours: Trusting God as You Raise the Girl He Gave You (2017) with her, then, husband Jonathan; God’s Girl Says Yes: What God Can Do When We Follow Him (2018); fictional series Lena in the Spotlight as a co-writer with her daughter Alena, including Hello Stars (2017); Day Dreams and Movie Screens (2017); and Shining Night (2018).

At the time of her death, Wynter was working on two new books scheduled for publication: Emptied: Experiencing the Fullness of a Poured-Out Marriage and I Am Yours: A Prayer Book for Girls.

The Full Story

Wynter was raised by her mother and grandmother in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland. As a child, she experienced the effects that poverty and fatherlessness can have on an individual, specifically a little girl.

Reflecting on her childhood, she wrote: “Although my surroundings weren’t perfect (and neither was my behavior), I can attribute my accomplishments to the grace of God, the love of a mother, grandmother, and close family who all served the Lord.”

Wynter gave her life to Christ at age 5, and was baptized at Christian Life Church in Baltimore. Sacrificing greatly, her mother and grandmother sent her to an elite, private all-girls school for the majority of her schooling through high-school graduation. It was in high school and college that Wynter discovered her love for travel. She studied abroad in France during her high-school years and in England during her college years.

She studied Corporate Communications at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and while in college, she met Jonathan Pitts. They were faithfully married for 15 years until Wynter’s sudden passing.

Wynter always knew that she wanted to write for a living. While her first professional job was as a grant writer for Philabundance, a local non-profit in Philadelphia, she also knew she was much more of an entrepreneur than a “nine to fiver.” She worked on various grants and did consulting work (including work for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital).

As God would have it, just nine-and-a-half months after marriage, Wynter gave birth to her first born daughter, Alena, on April 8, 2004. Over the next five years, the Pitts were blessed with three more daughters: Kaitlyn (December 23, 2006) and twins Camryn and Olivia (May 2, 2009).

She found herself surrounded by beautiful, talented, smart girls—each unique in her own way.

For a time, Wynter struggled with leaving the professional world to be a full-time mommy, but she surrendered to what she readily called God’s plan shortly before the birth of her second daughter. She embraced her new journey with vigor.

Out of her unconditional love for her own girls, God birthed Wynter’s professional calling and life’s work through her ministry, FOR GIRLS LIKE YOU.

“With a growing family, I made the decision to come home to raise my girls, and it was in this place that I finally gave God the freedom to be Lord of my life in action, not just in theory,” Wynter wrote. “I began blogging and experimenting with other creative writing pieces for a few years, finding my passion in being a wife, raising my family and ultimately leading to the founding of FOR GIRLS LIKE YOU magazine. I can honestly say, I am forever sold out and dedicated to seeking and following the call of Christ on my life. I am excited and available to share my heart and ministry with you.”

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