One day, 5-year-old Vashti Bishop came home from kindergarten to announce, “Mom, all my girlfriends have boyfriends. I need a boyfriend, too.”

What would you have said to your daughter?

Jennie Bishop wasn’t sure, either. So she prayed for a way to teach her young daughters about saving themselves for marriage. The answer came as an idea for a children’s story about a princess who saves her kiss … for a man who saved his kiss for her.

The Princess and the Kiss was published by Warner Press in 2000, and the rest is history. Through word-of-mouth the book’s popularity grew and sales began to spread throughout the country.  By 2007 this simple parable had sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.

In 2001, in partnership with Revive Our Hearts, a 21-lesson study from the book, Life Lessons from The Princess and the Kiss, was published.  The book included a simple purity ceremony for girls 8-12, and became a valuable tool for mothers teaching their daughters about purity of heart and body.

Now The Princess, its translations and related resources are used worldwide in purity training for children, parents and individuals. A lifetime approach to purity, Planned Purity, has developed through teaching opportunities created by the story. This model for purity training is facilitated by PurityWorks, a not-for-profit group dedicated to lifetime purity training on a global scale.