December 2024 Communique

While the first part of the year at Five Aspects Ministries was full of preparations and implementation of our journey into the homeschool and Christian school world, the second part of our year has been much quieter and home based. Emily and I have been working hard at the office. Emily takes care of the day-to-day tasks. She answers the phone and takes care of the emails. She keeps the books and ships all the orders. She is doing a great job, and we love her. 

I, Kristine, have been working on two book projects for the last half of the year. The next bible study that we hope to release in early 2025 is called, Men, Women & Marriage: Seven Biblical Principles. Men, Women & Marriage is based on the basic structure of our previous book, Seven Principles of Sexuality. However, Men, Women & Marriage is a full-fledged Bible study that can be used for individual or group study. It is specifically designed to be able to be used for individual study, for couples, for men’s groups, for women’s groups, and for mixed groups.  The study consists of seven four-part lessons. Honestly, this study will be a great way to introduce people to biblical sexuality and prepare them to do the more in-depth studies of Five Aspects of Man and Five Aspects of Women. I am excited about the potential of this study!  

I have also been working with Barbara on a new work titled, Clothed by God: Body and Spirit. Back in 2012 Barbara taught a conference titled: Clothing Body and Spirit. For a time, we kept the conference outline and notes available on our website. However, I have been working to adapt this conference material into a bible study. The new Clothed by God: Body and Spirit is the second in our Thematic Bible Study series after Seasons of God—Spirals of Life.  Clothed by God: Body and Spirit is a ten week bible study that will also be released in the first quarter of 2025. 

Update on Barbara Mouser: 

Barbara is doing well. I make it a priority to go and visit with Barbara in person as much as possible. This year, I have made it to Waxahachie about once a quarter. Barbara is active in the lives of all her daughters and her extended family. Another grandchild, a granddaughter, was added to the fold in November making her grandkid count now nine. Concerning writing and ministry, Barbara is actively learning what it means for her to be a widow, a mother of adult children, and a grandmother. At the forefront of her mind and ministry is how to minister to the needs of her family. Barbara is, by design, a Bible teacher who is very skilled at curriculum development. The ministry that she is engaged in with her grandchildren—her school of Bible, is not only a delight to hear about, but it is a work that I believe will yield dividends in the future. We hope to compose some works that come out of this season of her life. I cannot tell you the timeline or even the title of anything yet, but great things are coming together there.  

Most people who follow Five Aspects Ministries do so because of the lasting influence the works of William and Barbara Mouser have had on their lives. While Bill has gone on to be with the Lord, Barbara remains here with us, and we here at Five Aspects Ministries love her and honor her. In truth, she is our number one priority. For this reason, I want our faithful donors to know that your financial gifts are being used to support Barbara in this season of her life, and they will continue to be used in this manner. 

Five Aspects of Man in Romania 

This past October, Steve Ramey, one of the faithful board members for Five Aspects Ministries, made it over to Romania to meet with the men from a ministry called Edictum Dei, who are currently translating Five Aspects of Man into Romanian. This ministry contacted us earlier this year and asked us if they could translate our Bible studies. With much excitement and prayer, the board approved, and I worked hard to get them started on the process. Our request was that they begin with the Five Aspects of Man materials. What we didn’t expect was that Steve was going to get to go over to Romania and actually meet the team working on the translation! While it is indeed a small world, we serve an immeasurably magnificent God. We are encouraged and edified by this project that is now well underway. 

Five Aspects of Masculinity for Young Men and Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women in Spanish

Also in translation news, our friend Mónica Sernatinger, a long-term missionary to Mexico, is working with her brother-in-law, Fernando, on the project to translate Five Aspects of Masculinity for Young Men and Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women into Spanish. Both Monica and Fernando long to see these works in Spanish. Monica has worked with Five Aspects Ministries before on the Spanish translation of Seven Principles of Sexuality. We are looking forward to working with both Monica and Fernando to complete this project that has recently started. It is our sincere hope and prayer to see more of our works translated into Spanish and deployed to reach more people with the truth of the gospel and the truth that it brings to bear on our sexuality. 

We here at Five Aspects Ministries wish you all a very blessed advent season as we worship our Lord Jesus Christ in thanksgiving for His first advent, when He put on flesh and dwelt among us. I pray peace over you and your families. I pray that the Lord will be glorified in your lives and that the Gospel will continue to be proclaimed in this crazy world, and that the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit would work wonders in us this holiday season to magnify His holy name. 

Because He lives, 

Kristine Vermillion
Editor and Director of Women’s Ministry

July 2024 Communique

This Communique has been in the writing phase for much longer than anticipated. Instead of writing and sending it out earlier in the month, our team was hunkering down for and cleaning up after Hurricane Beryl. One huge downside of moving Five Aspects Ministries to the Houston area last summer is that now it too must figure out how to go through hurricane season.

We were without power and internet for most of last week, but we were able to limp along as needed. We were happy to return to normal home and work life last weekend. 

During the months of May and June, Five Aspects Ministries took to the road. With the recent updating of our materials for junior high and high school students, Five Aspects of Masculinity for Young Men and Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women, we wanted to find ways to get the word out. To do this, Emily and I attended two Texas Homeschool Expo shows, one in New Braunfels, Texas (San Antonio) and the other in Grapevine, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth). We also attended the Texas Homeschool Coalition show in The Woodlands, Texas (Houston). Lastly, Bryan and I attended the Repairing the Ruins conference in Atlanta, Georgia that was put on by the Association of Classical Christian Schools. 

Our reception in each place was varied. It was challenging in every avenue to try to explain to people in 30 seconds or less what our ministry is about and what our curriculums offer. Of course, many people viewed us with great suspicion, and in this day and age, I could not blame them. Seriously, if anyone came peddling to my door saying they had a curriculum to teach my kids about sexuality, I’d probably politely, yet very strongly, decline them the opportunity to talk to me or to sell me anything. We live in utterly baffling times. I get it. The impulse to protect my children from the crazy would keep me from visiting our table, or any table saying they’re teaching about gender topics! I’ll teach them myself, thank you very much. 

Then there were those who at a glance rightly knew that our curriculums teach that men and women are different by design, and they wanted to tell us off about this. In explaining our curriculum to others, the created, fallen, redeemed paradigm, I was, in fact, sharing the gospel with them. I could see it in their eyes. And still others wanted to argue about the strangest of things. Still others avoided us like the plague. I truly felt like a pariah many times. 

However, something truly wonderful happened at each show that is noteworthy. At EVERY show, even as far as Atlanta, Georgia, a few women came excitedly and joyously to our booth. Their testimonies were nearly the same. They had done Five Aspects of Woman, and it was the most important and impactful Bible study they had ever done. They were excited that we were there, and they were telling other people about us. Through their testimony, others came. One man, at the Atlanta show, told us that he thought our materials were the most important materials at the conference. I don’t remember how he knew about us, but he knew the value, and he too brought other people to our table to show them the materials. This goes to show how important you are, our faithful supporters and friends of the ministry. Your testimony to the integrity and quality of our curriculums to those you know is the most effective way to spread the word. 

Barbara’s prayer for our outings these past few months was simple: that we’d meet old friends, make new friends, find future leaders, and sell some books. We met old friends. We made new friends. We talked to many people who are potential future leaders. I purposely put our books in the hands of men and women who are already leaders across the country. Please pray with me that they become acquainted with our materials and become better equipped to stand on the truth of God’s Word in our embattled time. We also sold a few books. We did not sell many books, but we sold a few. I hope that orders will start to come in the near future. Ultimately, with the help of the advertisements in each shows’ handouts and our own new brochure, thousands of people who have never heard of our ministry before learned that we exist, and I pray that the Lord uses that for His glory in His timing and in His way. 

Now that this season of travel is over, I’m going to buckle down and focus on finishing updating and editing our existing works. I also hope to be able to put together several new ones. The list I have in front of me is both exciting and daunting. I have recruited my daughters to help me update the Jeweled Fountain. Their insight and love for the Lord is contagious. My eldest daughter, who is about to start her senior year, is also reading and editing a few of the other works. Her insights on how to communicate with younger generations are invaluable. 

Barbara is actively working as a grandmother, focusing on helping two of her daughters and sons-in-law with their growing families. She is writing and producing Bible plays with several of the older grandkids. They’re currently working on a play about Paul and his missionary journeys. It is fun to listen to her talk about their plays. As has always been the case, her love for Scripture and her keen insight is inspiring. Working with grandsons has also helped her to be able to start working on the materials for young boys. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with. 

Please pray for the Lord to bring us wisdom and clarity regarding the next convention season. Pray also that He would move in the lives of the people we met this year. And finally, please keep our team in your prayers as we continue to fight this ever-growing battle.

I pray for all of you now as I prepare to send out this email update. I pray that our Lord would work mightily in your lives for His glory. I pray that you’ll be able to stand and withstand all the attacks of our enemies. I pray for your protection in these tumultuous times. As the darkness deepens and havoc and chaos seem to press in from every side, I pray that you will feel the Lord’s constant presence and take shelter in His promises. I also pray, along with the Holy Spirit and the church at large, Come Lord Jesus. Come. 

Kristine Vermillion
Editor and Director of Women’s Ministry

March 2024 Communique

Message from our new Director:

Honoring the past and planning for the future.

2 Timothy 1:13–14 (NASB95)

Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

Please indulge me for a moment and imagine that we are parachuting into Paul's second letter to Timothy, into the region of Chapter 1. As we descend toward the drop zone of verses 13 & 14, we see the verses which came before and those that come after. On the front side we see Paul suffering for the gospel. We hear from him why he is suffering and to Whom he entrusts the victory. On the back side, we see that he has been abandoned by many, except for the house of Onesiphorus. Yet in the drop zone, we see Paul entrusting the “sound words” he had been given to Timothy. Paul commands Timothy to guard this treasure. By extension, believers are also charged to do the same thing. We are to retain the standard of sound words which we have heard, and we are to guard through the Holy Spirit the treasure which has been entrusted to us. Paul’s words help me accurately view our current place in history. A correct biblical view on anything, much less on gender, is constantly embattled and attacked. As the great treasure that Scripture is, we are to keep and guard diligently what has been entrusted to us amidst attack, suffering, betrayal, and abandonment. 

The board of Five Aspects Ministries was able to meet together in January. I am thankful for the group of men the Lord has put together and feel very fortunate to be a part of such a team. Paraphrasing 2 Timothy 1:13–14, my personal goal as it pertains to Five Aspects Ministries is to "retain the standard of sound words" and guard the "treasure which has been entrusted" to us. I can attest that the board is doing just that. The Five Aspects materials are indeed a treasure that we have been entrusted with, inasmuch as they reflect and expound upon the true treasure which is The Word of God. As we move forward, we are making plans for the future while seeking to honor the past. Would you please join us in praying for God's wisdom to guide us.

Bryan Vermillion 
Five Aspects Ministries Director

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William Peterson, Bryan & Kristine Vermillion 

Wesley Mouser & Steve Ramey

Note from Barbara Mouser: Introduction of Bryan Vermillion

Steve Ramey, William Peterson, and Bryan Vermillion

As I considered how to introduce Bryan Vermillion as the new Aspects Director, I was reminded of a phrase I learned from my professional-army brother. He used to talk about “walk-on-water OERs” (officer efficiency reports). In the army, commanding officers would rate their subordinates to determine their advancements. However, as with so much in our society, the reports became inflated. Poor officers were rated “good,” and average officers were rated “great.” But what if you really had a “great” officer? What did you say about him? 

Two solutions were used to solve this problem. One option was to write a “walk-on-water” OER. In other words, the grader would praise the outstanding officer so highly and so extravagantly, he was made to sound divine. The other solution was to write a report so short and dramatic, it cut away the fog and made the point with a staccato thrust. “Promote this man now” would be an example of this kind of OER. I could write a “walk-on-water” introduction for Bryan. He is a man of many virtues. But I prefer to get to the central point quickly. 

Bryan is faithful, trustworthy, and persevering.

What better man could God raise up in this treacherous day to lead the Aspects Ministry than one with these qualifications? Thank you, Bryan, for receiving this ministry stewardship from the Lord. Bill and I (we spoke of this many times before his departure last May) are deeply encouraged and grateful for your willingness to serve. 

1 Corinthians 4:2 (NKJV)
“Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.”

Barbara Mouser Co-Founder and Staff Writer

For more information on our new director, Bryan Vermillion, please visit our team page to read more.

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A Note from Kristine’s desk: 

Emily and I have been steadily working on the daily activities of Five Aspects Ministries. Emily has faithfully filled orders, responded to customer inquiries, and handled all the details of the day to day. Bryan and I hosted the special meeting of the board at our lake house mid-January, and then we turned around and released the new Five Aspects of Man 2nd Edition when we returned home. 

In addition to this, Emily and I have been researching opportunities to get Five Aspects Ministries curriculums before a broader audience. Just this week, we have scheduled to attend two homeschool expos here in Texas in May and July, and we are on the waiting lists for another homeschool show and a private Christian school gathering. We are also considering a local expo in April as well. At these events we plan to highlight the Five Aspects of Masculinity for Young Men, the Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women, and the Jeweled Fountain. Of course, all of our curriculums will be presented while we are there as well. In order to get ready for these events, we have a mountain of work to do. We need to design a booth, produce new literature, and a whole list of other things. 

In addition to this, I also have a list of works that need to be edited and adapted for new editions as well as a list of works that I would like to see come into existence. The first work on my list is the Seven Principles of Sexuality for Students. I aim to begin this adaptation in the coming weeks. I would love to have it ready to take to present at the events in May and July, but that would take a small miracle to happen in such a small amount of time. However, I have seen God work wonders in the recent years, so … I know that it is indeed possible if He wants it to be done. 

Please pray for this ministry. Pray for the opportunities that we have to get our materials before a larger audience of people and to spread the word. Please pray for our protection and for God’s guidance every step of the way. Please pray that if we are supposed to be at the events that we are on the waiting list for—we’ll be there. Please pray for all of our needs to be provided. Please pray over the development of our materials and that God would continue to guide me every step of the way. Please pray that God will continue to use these curriculums to transform and disciple believers everywhere for His glory. 

We thank you for the faithful prayer and financial support that so many of you give so graciously and so regularly. Because of your support, we are reaching this nation and the world for Christ. Our books have been going to California and Pennsylvania and everywhere in between. We have also recently sent books to Romania, Australia, and Ireland. In the grand scheme of things, we are a teeny tiny little ministry that produces a teeny tiny number of books for a teeny tiny little subset of the population. Yet, I believe that God is mightily at work here. I know He is. We regularly talk to people from all over the place— Scripture is being taught and lives are being changed. We will be faithful with the treasure God has entrusted to us, and we will continue until He takes us home or until He returns. 

Kristine Vermillion
Editor and Project Manager 

December 2023 Communique

“Home for the Holidays”

 “Home for the Holidays” has special meaning for our Five Aspects ministry this Christmas. 

Our Founder Is In His New Home In Heaven.

2022 was Bill’s final Christmas on earth. This Christmas, he is home with the Lord!  We offer praise that “goodness and mercy followed Bill all the days of his life, and now he dwells in the house of the LORD forever (Psalm 23:6).”

Here is a delightful shot of our ministry leaders—the new (Bryan Vermillion) and the old (Bill Mouser)—cooking up something good at Lake Haven this past March. We are so grateful for the smooth months of transition we have experienced from one place to the next and from one man to the next.  

Our Ministry Is Settled Into Its New Home Office In Houston. 

 Emily and Kristine in the Five Aspects Ministries new home office. 

The move from Waxahachie (Dallas area) to Highlands (Houston area) began in April 2023 when Kristine started to make the plan and lay the groundwork to move the operation. Hours went into “building the bucket” to move everything into. Emily was not supposed to be available to start working until June, but at the beginning of May the Lord cleared her schedule, and she was able to start sooner than expected. Kristine developed and implemented new procedures and taught Emily the ropes of the new accounting system. 

We paused at the end of May to honor the life of William Mouser. His sudden homegoing altered our plans significantly and sped up the transition process.

Bryan and Kristine hopped on a jet plane and flew to the other side of the world for most of the month of June to celebrate their son’s graduation and take that epic family vacation they had always wanted to take. It was a leap of faith to go to New Zealand and Australia in the first place, but to leave Barbara and Emily behind when everything was in limbo made it even harder. However, the Lord was good and provided wonderfully for us all. 

Picture of Vermillion Family on Sydney Harbor

In July, the transition to the Houston office was complete, and we were in over our heads for a few weeks. Mid-July through September are our busiest book order months, so we jumped into fulfillment right when orders were starting to rev up. Emily and Kristine had fun establishing Five Aspects Ministries’ new home and daily routine. Bryan provided the leadership, the guidance, the place, the tools, the infrastructure, and the muscle to get everything set-up. Ryan, Emily’s husband, has also unofficially joined our team with additional height, muscle, humor, energy, and spontaneity. Bryan and Ryan are truly Five Aspects men in every way. 

Francesca Chapel was home of Aspects from 2002-2020. Just as the old Aspects home in Waxahachie had the Francesca chapel as a venue for meetings and conferences, the new Aspects home has access to the lovely Lake Haven for such gatherings. 

Prayers! 

For the past four months, Kristine has been formatting and editing the second edition of the Five Aspects of Man. The work has been difficult and time-consuming. At the time of the writing of this communique, the final chapters have been compiled and are being edited by our team.  Please pray for Kristine and for the faithful men who are serving as readers and consultants in this process. Our goal is to have it available in January 2024. Pray that the work will not be hindered on any front, and that the Five Aspects of Man – 2nd Edition will be completed in God’s timing, in His Way, and for His glory alone. 

Kristine working at her home office on Five Aspects of Man 2nd Edition 

Barbara is grateful to be spending her first Christmas as a widow with her sister and brother-in-law in their new farm home. This house has been many years in planning and is dedicated to the family, the edification of the saints, and, in all things, to the glory of God.  God is so faithful to provide new dwelling places when old ones are taken away. 

Prayers And Praises

Christ came to be a home for us. He returned to heaven to prepare a home for us. He asks us to be a home for Him.

• Thank God with us for His amazing work among us in 2023—the close of Bill’s well-spent life, the successful administrative move to Houston, the new staff, and the new and renewed procedures and publications. 

• Please pray for Five Aspects Ministries as we seek to make this work an expanding home and a growing light for Christ in 2024. Many are homeless in body and soul. Nurturing homes are not built apart from manly men and womanly women. To train and help rebuild such men and women is central to the ministry of Five Aspects. 

• Please consider supporting us financially. Examine our publications to see if any meet your needs or would be useful to you as a gift or evangelistic tool. Both one-time donations and regular gifts are appreciated.  

• Pray for the Board Meeting January 13, 2024. Please pray that we make wise decisions and have edifying fellowship.   

Merry Christmas As We Celebrate Christ Who Is Our Home

As a baby, Jesus was born in a manger. As a man, He had nowhere to lay His head. Yet He came not only to prepare a home for us, but to be home for us.   

2 Corinthians 9:15 

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! 

Ephesians 2:19–22  

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, 20having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. 

October 2023 Communique

A Time to Build and Grow

2023 has been a big and eventful year for Aspects Ministries. This Communique is written to provide our friends and co-workers an overview of where we have been, what’s being done now, and what is being planned for the future. 

I. WHAT’S BEEN ACCOMPLISHED

Foundation Laid (1991-2021): A lot was accomplished during the first generation of the Aspects Ministry. A core theology of Biblical sexuality was articulated, printed, and taught. A remnant from the Boomer generation received our message. So a lot was done to lay a foundation, but work fades with time and badly needs to be renewed.  

Baton passed (2022-2023): The Mousers worked purposefully to hand the administrative baton to Bryan and Kristine Vermillion during 2022 and to move the ministry headquarters from the Mouser home in Waxahachie to the Vermillions’ home in Houston. God dramatically punctuated this passing of the torch by taking Bill home in May of this year. Bill’s departure left Bryan not only as the administrative head, but as the heir apparent to be Aspects second president. Over the summer, the Waxahachie office was closed, and the Houston office was opened. All of this has taken a great deal of effort, attention to administrative detail, and not a little emotional and spiritual labor.     

II. DEFINING OUR GOAL–What Next?

The logical question is, where do we go from here? Not only has the battle for Biblical sexuality not been won—the state of sex and gender seems worse than ever. We seem to be surrounded by a world gone mad. But as a famous general once said, “Men, we are surrounded by the enemy. We have the greatest opportunity ever presented an army. We can attack in any direction.” This is a good attitude and one we hope to emulate. It is not time to wind down or rest on past accomplishments. It is time to build and grow. But, we do need to be intentional about how we plan our attacks.  

“EQUIPPING THE REMNANT FOR A TIME SUCH AS THIS”

This is our new tagline and well summarizes our goals. Consider this phrase word by word. 

1. “EQUIPPING”—   

• We strive to provide tools which will enable believers to “stand in this wicked day” and “to give answers for the hope that is within them.”

• Tools include a sure knowledge of the masculine God who is Father and Son and of man and woman as equal, but not interchangeable, creatures designed by God.    

2. “THE REMNANT”— 

• The remnant is walking in God’s ways against the swift current of a “re-paganizing world.” 

• The remnant is made of good soil that receives the Word of God and bears fruit to it.   

• We are especially looking for this generation’s remnant leaders. Leaders ask questions, listen to answers, and understand the times. Leaders are teachers, writers, and artists.

• By seeking to train these kinds of leaders, we hope to penetrate and permeate the body of Christ with words and ideas that will enable individuals, families, and churches to stand firm in Christ.   

3. “FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS”—As in Esther’s day, we live in a time of great danger. Many are losing their faith, their lives, and their very identity as men and women. It is a time to pray and speak God’s truth to this generation. God’s whole counsel must include what the Bible says about sexuality and gender. 

III. PRAISES FOR GOD’S GOODNESS TO THE ASPECTS MINISTRY AND TEAM 

1. Vermillions Take the Torch: The Mousers’ retirement and cancer years took the Aspects Ministry to low ebb. The Vermillions’ are taking Aspects out of “ministry ICU” and are nurturing it back to new strength, life, and productivity. We are grateful to be a part of this new phase of ministry.

2. Barbara is deeply grateful to God for His comfort and guidance in the last months as she is adjusting to the new and sometimes daunting world of widowhood. She is grateful for the constant love, fellowship, and help of family and friends. 

3. The Houston office has accomplished backflips to get up and running. We are especially rejoicing for streamlined, faster shipping! Thank you, Bryan for the big framework administrative work you are accomplishing. Thank you, Emily, for being our “boots on the ground” office manager, for filling orders, and for keeping it all straight.    

4. Good news from California! In the spirit of generational transition (which seems to be our theme this year), a mother/daughter team (Janet Niblack and Vicky Lopez) have started a new Five Aspects of Woman class in San Jose. Janet describes the group: “two French ladies, one Swiss German, one Korean, one Iranian (Assyrian)… plus our daughter-in-law in Geneva is going through the course with the Austrian wife of the other director of the Institut Biblique de Genève. Plus, our daughter Laura in Ethiopia. (If you don’t know them, the Niblack/Lopez team has always been something of a one-family world mission agency!)

IV. PETITIONS FOR CURRENT PROJECTS AND FUTURE PLANS 

1. Five Aspects of Man (second edition): Kristine is working diligently to edit and re-format our Five Aspects of Man course. Four of our most experienced men are contributing counsel. Hopefully this foundational study and its leaders guide will be available in early 2024. 

2. A Face-to-Face Board Meeting is scheduled at Lake Haven in January. For the first time in many years, this Five Aspects Ministries Board Meeting will be a live affair. Pray for wise decisions and a rousting time of fellowship.   

3. Lots of ideas: Necessarily, this year has been driven by administrative transition. However, we are making specific plans about “how to attack in every direction.” Here are some projects and ideas that are currently on the drawing board. Please pray that God will guide us to the people and the paths that will be most fruitful.  

• Continuing to update and revise our current works to keep them in print and relevant. 

• Developing Spanish translations of more of our core materials. 

• Outreaches targeting homeschoolers, private schools, and churches. 

• Different forms for our message such as short courses, sound bites, whole audio books, and interviews. 

• Training events for men in the use of Five Aspects of Man Study Course.

• Producing more materials on Thematic Bible Study method. The new release of the second edition of Seasons of God-Spirals of Life is the first book released in our Thematic Bible Study series. 

• More books for men, boys, and children are on the drawing board.

We need your prayers, and we need your money! 

Please help us to “Equip the Remnant for Such a Time as This.” 

The Five Aspects Ministry Team, 
Bryan, Kristine, Barbara, and Emily 

July 2023 Communique

Dear Five Aspects Friends,

As most of you know, Bill Mouser, the founder of Five Aspects Ministries and its only President for 32 years, passed away May 20, 2023 at home after a long and valiant bout with cancer. 

As his wife and the co-founder of this ministry, I greatly desire to write a Communique to remember, honor, and thank Bill for who he is and what he has done. As you might imagine, this task seems overwhelming for me at the present. It occurred to me to honor Bill with a brief photo essay about him, organized around the Five Aspects of Man. 

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Remembering Bill Mouser

Who Wrote and Lived The Five Aspects of Man

I. LORD OF THE EARTH

Man in his “lord of the earth” aspect rules and subdues as God’s viceroy. He deploys his headship to lead and make decisions for his family.  

Since Bill married me in 1981, Bill desired a family and loved and led the one God gave him. He led us in the ways of the Lord, even when it was not easy. 

The Bill Mouser Family in 1983. Here we are on the way to Vienna with our firstborn, Alexa, at 9 months. 

Here is how Bill left his children 30 years later in 2023. This picture was taken at his graveside. 

The Bill Mouser Family at Easter 1993 at the Chapel ICGS owned for 18 years and our church home for 30.

II. HUSBANDMAN

Man in the “husbandman” aspect cultivates his domain to make it flourish and productive. God demonstrates the role of husbandman in the Bible most often as a farmer, shepherd, and vintner. 

Bill wasn’t a shepherd or farmer or a vintner, but he did like dogs and planted flowers. 

Best of all he was a wonderful husband to me!

The New Testament directs that wives ask their questions to their husbands at home. One of Bill’s great strengths as a husbandman was that he listened to my questions and answered them—one of the main reasons I married him in the first place! (We are not at home in this picture—rather on the Danube in 2010 on a very special family vacation).

III. SAVIOR

Man in his “savior” aspect makes war against evil in order to rescue the beloved in peril.

Bill and Francesca 1996

Our third daughter Francesca was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 1996.  As I always put it, Bill “got on his horse and rode hard to the rescue.” This picture was taken of Bill and Francesca at the beginning of her cancer journey. I always notice how safe and secure she looks and was. Her father was holding her and she had him by the hand. That is the way it was until the end.   

IV. Sage

Man in his “sage” aspect learns practical skills while seeking eternal insight and discernment. 

This is Bill in our family room at the Thanksgiving of our engagement, 1980. He gave an impromptu talk on Psalm 107 which I have never forgotten. Few can “break open a psalm” like Bill.  His series on the Psalms of Ascent was also noteworthy.

 Bill loved the wisdom literature from the beginning of his Christian life. A version of his book on Proverbs has been in print for over 40 years. 

An ole Marine Corps cook, Bill’s favorite practical skill was cooking. He was willing to peel potatoes, but loved the fancy stuff.

V. Glory of God

Man in his “glory of God” aspect shares the masculine offices of God. He is son, brother, bridegroom, husband, father, king, priest. When men take the offices of God, they are not God—but they have the opportunity to show us what is God is like.

Bill was a true “glory of God” man. He was a dutiful son, a loving brother, a faithful husband , and a serving father as well. Beyond that, Bill was a pastor and priest. 

As an officer in Christ’s church, Bill had the natural gifts. He was educated and well-spoken. He had bearing and classic masculine features. As a man, he was given created resources. By and large, he used these for God instead of for himself.

For me, Bill had “perfect pitch” as a worship leader. In his preaching and in his ordering of worship he did what few men are able to do. He set a spirit of reverence and dignity toward God alongside a spirit of humility about himself.

The last “official words” that Bill wrote to his brothers and sisters in Christ in April before he died in May were these: 

If this wretched cancer is a cross to bear, I need to bear it patiently as I follow our Lord through all the sufferings and indignities it brings me. Meanwhile our Lord uses all of it to shape a character in me that pleases Him before He calls me out of this world.

Please do not lose heart for my sake! As I've said before, I cannot lose no matter what happens, so long as I follow our Lord along whatever path He has chosen for me. Join me in asking for our Father’s faithful grace toward me and toward all the rest of us as well.

Much love in Him, Fr. Bill Mouser

He did indeed follow Our Lord patiently through sufferings and indignities. His character never seemed more Christ-like to me than at the end of his journey. He fought a good fight. He kept the faith, and he finished so well. I don’t know of a better tribute. God’s grace was faithful toward him and, indeed, we have no cause “to lose heart” for his sake.

The following prayer was given to us as a wedding present in 1981. This prayer has hung in our bedroom our entire married life. I have read it many times. Now God has answered every line.

I include the words again here in case the calligraphy is too hard to read. 

Dear Father,

May You enable us both
to eat fully and drink deeply from the feast of life.

May You cause our love to grow richly, to deepen and mature with every new season of life, and to be ever as fresh and refreshing as spring.

May we travel together as friends and lovers, brother and sister, husband and wife, father and mother, and servants of Christ until He shall return or at last one shall lay the other into the arms of God.

Amen.

I send my greetings and love to all of you in deep gratitude for God’s grace and for Bill’s life,

Barbara Mouser

April 2023 Communique

Big Events at Five Aspects Ministries!

The Administrative Headquarters of Five Aspects Ministries is moving to Houston this spring and into the very capable hands of Bryan and Kristine Vermillion. We will be letting you know more about this very important transition in the weeks to come. However, as we close our administrative home office here in Waxahachie, we want to thank and honor a very important person. 

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Thank you, Woody Perry, for 27 Years of Loving Service to Five Aspects Ministries!

Barbara met Woody Perry in 1993 on a Sunday School field trip for the kids to ride horses north of Dallas. Barbara immediately felt a bond with this Christian, patriotic country girl from Lampasas, Texas.  Barbara noted in her annual scrapbook about Woody: “Wow! What A Doll!”  

Three years later, in 1996, when the Mousers’ daughter Francesca was battling a brain tumor, Bill and Barbara asked Woody to help out with Five Aspects Ministries. The rest, as they say, is history.  

Celebrating 27 years!

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Thank you, Woody!

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Celebrating 27 years! 〰️ Thank you, Woody! 〰️

This picture was taken of Woody and Tom in 1997, soon after Woody came to work for us. Tom is a marvelous handyman and did many carpentry and plumbing jobs for us over the years when Aspects Ministries owned the Chapel.

Thank you, Tom!

Here is Woody in 2000 in our first office location on the Waxahachie square, unpacking the first edition of Knowing God and Understanding Men. 

Woody has been our bookkeeper and office manager. She has processed thousands of orders, bills, emails, and transactions of all sorts.

Woody oversaw property maintenance and repairs. Here she is on a day we were “cleaning and sorting.” 

Woody has many skills. Not everybody knows how to babysit in a front loader!

Woody loves animals and children. Here she is sharing her goats at the local school. 

Woody catered and decorated for countless events at the chapel. She is famous for this work among Aspect Conference attendees. 

Use the arrows to scroll through the slideshow and click an image to view captiOns.

A long-time Aspecter from Missouri writes to Woody: All of the events I have attended of Barbara’s in Texas were adorned and complemented by your service and ministry. The delicious food you served and the beauty of the decorations were encouraging and uplifting. What you did was a big part of the joy of being there…

From North Carolina:  Over my lifetime, I have been to numerous Christian conferences for women. Without a doubt, my favorite conference has been the time I have spent with the ICGS team. A time of worship, led by Bill, outstanding teaching by Barbara, and the special care you gave all of us with your amazing hospitality is a memory that I wish could go on and on….I especially treasure the time I had with you, helping you in the kitchen. I felt immediately that we were “kindred spirits”! I treasure the recipes you shared with me…

A young Aspecter from California writes: Woody, As I think back on the Wisdom House Weekends and all the organization and communication you handled to make those work, I am so grateful! And then you went the extra mile and cooked the meals, did special touches and details, and made yourself so available to serve. Thank you. You are a blessing to me!!

A Michigan friend agrees: You have been an incredible blessing to me and so many other women. You fed our bodies delicious food….and made things beautiful, a “feast” for our eyes. 

The “voice of Aspects,” Woody has been the trouble-shooter for countless problem orders and special needs over the years.

A Texan writes, “Woody, Thank you so much for all you have done to enable ICGS to impact lives for the Lord across the United States and oversees. Your consistent, faithful participation in the ministry made it easier for those of us who called with random questions and allowed us to assure our students that they also could contact you and get an answer.

Here’s a Californian who gets to the heart of the matter(!) “Woody, Thank you for being available via phone and emails for our questions and requests….and for keeping Bill and Barbara sane…”

Woody has brought skills and diligence to her work for Aspects over these many years. But her crowning virtues are surely the love and friendship she offers the people she serves. Here she is with one of her best buds from California.  

Priscilla Fisher, the Aspects graphic designer for 23 years, writes this: Dearest Woody, Three decades is a long time to labor at anything, even more so when your labor is largely invisible to those whom you serve. Ever since I can remember, you’ve been the go-to person for ICGS. Whenever I sought your help, you proved yourself faithful, diligent, patient, and capable. You’ve blessed so many with your administrative skills, gracious hospitality, and willing, humble heart. I don’t know the half of it but thank you for your long service to the Lord through the Aspects ministry. 

From Bill and Barbara:  Thank you, Woody. You have been an essential part of our lives and ministry these 27 years. We thank the Lord for bringing you into our lives. A chapter is closing, but love and friendship in Christ go on forever. 

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Stay Tuned, Aspecters!

Don’t be concerned about too much change too fast. Bill Mouser is remaining the Director of Aspects Ministries, and Barbara is remaining as a staff writer and consultant.  We are not shutting down; we are building up for ministry to new generations. 

We are on schedule to make the new Five Aspects of Man Revised available for purchase August 1, 2023. A downloadable workbook and leaders guide will be available at that time for your fall classes (Lord willing).  

Please pray for this office transition, for upcoming publications, and for outreach to a very broken world.  More details about all these things will be coming in a May Communique.

December 2022 Communique

A Year for Unfeigned Thankfulness

We have shared with you in recent Communiques Bill’s retirement from pastoral ministry, our ministry move from the Chapel, and our personal downsize to a smaller home. We have also let you know about our 18-month bout with life-threatening lymphoma.  

God specializes in “more than we could ask or think.” We are rejoicing in Bill’s restored health. We are so grateful that God has enabled him to continue here with us as husband, father, grandfather, and minister of the Gospel.  

We also rejoice in the renewal of the Five Aspects Ministry.

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Teammates: As we communicated in October, Bryan and Kristine Vermillion are coming along side to co-labor with us even more fully in the planning and execution of new ministry to the next two generations. 

Materials: The Five Aspects of Man Revised (first proof) is currently being read by a number of godly men. More express interest on a regular basis. 

Opportunities: Doors appear to be opening, especially for men’s ministry, specifically in South Carolina, New Jersey, and Texas. 

Administration and finances. We are grateful for Woody Perry who continues to serve as our office administrator of 27 years, and for good relations with our printer Snowfall Press, and our web-master, Dan Olsen. We thank God for meeting all our material needs.

Five Aspects Board: The directors are of one mind with us. We were recently blessed by a visit with Steve and Marie Ramey, friends and co-laborers for almost 40 years. As parents, grandparents, and missionaries, they share our zeal to give all we can to the next two generations as we continue to hold up God’s truth in every area, especially in the massive battle over sexuality.

Five Aspects Supporters: We are grateful for all of you who have prayed, given, served, and encouraged us through some dreary days. Thank you for persevering with us. 

Unfeignedly Thankful for the Unspeakable Gift

Most of all, we are thankful for Our Lord Jesus Christ and for His coming. With that in mind, we close this year with a picture of the lights that Bill put on the outside of our home and the lights that Barbara put on the inside as tribute to Him who came to be The Light of the World. 

Merry Christmas from The Mousers and the Five Aspects Ministry!  

October 2022 Communique

Praise and Thanks to God for Bill’s Clean Bill of Health! 

Here we are enjoying God's rich blessings at Med Park Apartments in July. Barbara was deeply grateful for the beauty and spaciousness of this pool which she visited twice daily.

Among the plethora of T-shirt signage, one says, Stronger than Cancer. We think that should be God is Stronger than Cancer.  God was with us and provided for us through the long summer of CAR-T therapy. After Bill received his upgraded cells in late June, he remained in the hospital for two weeks. After that we lived in the Med Park Apartments close to the clinic for another month in case of complications. There were no complications!  As of late September, Bill’s PET scan was clear!

We thank God for His faithfulness over every step of the last year and a half, not only to comfort, guide, and heal, but to teach us more about Himself. We are especially thankful for each one of you who prayed for us and encouraged us along the way. What a joy to not only be rescued from cancer but to be restored and released to another season of service to God and life together as man and wife.

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Praise and Thanks to God for Five Aspects of Man Revised Readers! 

Many thanks to Kristine for her editing and formatting of this book and to Woody for overseeing the shipping for the readers. 

In June, we announced the completion of the first draft of the long-awaited Five Aspects of Man Revised. At that time, we requested thoughtful Christian men to volunteer as readers to evaluate the content of this theological work. Approximately 50 such men have come forth!  Their books have been printed and shipped. Best of all, Bill is here, ready, and able to lead this team. After a time for evaluation and honing, we hope to make FAMR available in our catalogue sometime in 2023.  

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Praise and Thanks to God for Co-laborers!

Here we are looking rather somber due to the “sun grins”—but trust us, it was a joyful occasion. 

Our third really giant praise is for the opportunity to continue to work with Bryan and Kristine Vermillion. In mid-October we were able to visit their lake home in southeast Texas for the first time in six and a half years. We have been working together consistently but in the midst of many “life issues.”  It was a real joy to devote a weekend to fellowship, relaxation, and planning in this beautiful place.  

The Vermillions’ lord of the earth and mistress of the domain aspects are everywhere apparent at Lake Haven. 

We are rejoicing in God’s healing, guidance, and care!  Please continue to pray that the Lord would be served and glorified in this ministry! 

With love and prayers,

Bill and Barbara Mouser

June 2022 Communique

A Big Summer Coming!

The Cancer War Continues

We are very grateful to God for His goodness to us over the last year of Bill’s battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Your prayers and expressions of love and support have been constant, sustaining, and deeply appreciated. Please do not stop. Bill will be entering the hospital in Dallas June 19 for an advanced treatment (CAR-T cell therapy). He will be in the hospital for two to four weeks depending on the side effects that he experiences. After he is released from the hospital, Barbara will join him at an apartment near the hospital until he is stable enough to return home to Waxahachie.  Please pray for our peace, our testimony to those around us, and for God’s blessing on this treatment.

We are also grateful for all the fullness of life that God has granted us during these months. Bill has greatly enjoyed taking up gardening in our tiny yard. Barbara has greatly enjoyed looking at the flowers! Our brother-in-law Donn Beighley helped Bill install a drip irrigation system. We hope to sustain the flowers even though we will be away for weeks.

Bill with his Mandevilla vine.

Bill the husbandman pruning his vines.
(Bill the carpenter built the boxes). 

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Five Aspects of Man Revised Now Ready for Field Test

Built on 30 additional years of study and ministry since its first edition, The Five Aspects of Man Revised (FAMR) is complete in its draft form. This version is a biblical theology of masculinity presenting the Five Aspects model of manhood combined with a thorough-going theology of sexuality. Approximately 225 pages in length, this book is not a fill-in-the-blank guide or workbook. It is a theology of man and sexuality based on the masculinity of God revealed in the Person of Christ. This book is offered as our flagship work, providing a framework for leaders and thinkers who need answers for the bewildering and convoluted sexual landscape of the 21st century. Hopefully, FAMR will be a seminal work from which shorter and more specialized works for new believers and boys will follow. 

Special Offer 

If the Lord allows, we aim at having a printed, field-test version of the book available by the end of August. 

If you would like to read the book and offer feedback and/or lead a small field test with one to three others (big field-test groups are not recommended), you may obtain the book as follows:

• To place your order, call the Five Aspects number (214-794-7511) or email us (icgsinfo@yahoo.com) . Your book or books will be shipped directly from our office and not from our print-on-demand supplier.

• Price will be cost of printing plus shipping

• This offer is valid from the availability of the books (the end of August we hope) until the end of September.

This field-test edition of the book will NOT appear for sale in our catalog. Hopefully, the final edition will appear for sale in our catalog sometime in 2023. 

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Pray for Our Staff

Pray for Kristine Vermillion as she continues to recover from a car accident that occurred in January. Pray for her skill in the editing, formatting, and the cover design of FAMR.

Pray for Woody as she oversees the administration of Five Aspects Ministries from home. She is also busy caring for sick folks, but she hopes to serve you personally in shipping the field test books.

Pray for Bill and Barbara as they seek to do their imitation of Nehemiah, fighting cancer with a sword and building the Five Aspects Ministry with a trowel.

 With love and prayers,

Bill and Barbara Mouser

January 2022 Communique

Dear Friends and Prayer Partners,

Happy New Year! We are very grateful to be entering upon a new year with our Lord. We are amazed that in spite of downsizing, retirement, and cancer, this ministry is alive and growing. Thank you for your prayers and gifts. We are thinking, writing, and relating with friends old and new. We hope to be sharing some new projects with you as the year unfolds. However, now is the time for the launch we mentioned in October.

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New Year, New Editions

We are very glad and grateful to be announcing the completion of the Spanish edition of Seven Principles of Sexuality and the re-launch of the English version.

Pre-order your copy now at a special offer of $8 per book

Seven Principles of Sexuality is a foundational tool on biblical sexuality. Written in plain language, Seven Principles is accessible to anyone with questions on this urgent topic. Concise and well-organized, it also serves as a reference and resource for Christian leaders, pastors, and teachers. Please consider whether you know any Spanish speaker who might be edified by this book or anyone ministering in the Spanish language that might use this book as a reference and ministry resource. 

These books are available now through February 28, 2022 at the introductory sale price of $8 each, plus shipping and handling.  Click here to pre-order a copy for yourself or friends to whom you would like to give the book. Or send the link along to them with an explanation of why you recommend it. (Note: March 1, 2022, Seven Principles in Spanish and English will go to their normal price of $20 each.)

The English version is also being included in this introductory offer. If you missed this tool the first time, don’t miss it now. Or if you want to stock up, now is a great time to do it. 

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Thank you to our Spanish language team

This translation has been a long time in coming. Monica Sernatinger, Isai Cazares, and Kristine Vermillion have made the Spanish Seven Principles and the re-launch of the English version possible. All three of these co-laborers have full-time jobs, so we are especially grateful for their going the extra mile to make these new resources available.   

We are deeply grateful for longtime Aspects friend Monica Sernatinger and for her conscientious work in translating Seven Principles into Spanish. Monica served as a missionary in Mexico with her late husband Jamie for many years, during which time she translated and extensively field-tested Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women. Today she resides in Eugene, Oregon, where she continues active work as an evangelist and missionary. Monica serves in association with Christian Missions in Many Lands (CMML). 

Isai Cazares, our Spanish editor, is Discipleship Pastor at Northwood Church in Keller, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and Dallas Baptist University. Isai is a husband, father, and a third generation pastor. 

Kristine Vermillion, our new editor and graphic designer, has formatted and produced new covers for both the Spanish and English books. 

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FAQ: What can Christians do to encourage men in Godly masculinity?

This is a big and important question with multiple answers. Therefore we will use this question as our one FAQ for 2022. Bite-size answers will show up in this and subsequent Communiques. Later a whole compilation of our answers will appear on the Aspects website. 

As we look back over the years of studying and teaching Five Aspects of Man, we have noted that husbandman is the least known of the aspects. The lord of the earth aspect focuses on decision-making to select, to expand, and to rule the domain. The husbandman aspect focuses on maintaining and cultivating each thing and person inside the larger realm, whether that realm is a farm, a business, a family, or a nation. The goal is to cultivate all the things and persons in one’s care such that they flourish and are fruitful.

Why is it so hard for men to be “other-centered”? Why do they so often fall off the horse as either passive no-shows or self-centered egoists?  We should not be surprised. Given that men are limited and sinful, what are their options in the face of commands and demands that they lead, provide, protect, and cultivate? For limited and sinful men there are no other options except to run-off from their responsibilities or run over their charges.  

The third path is a supernatural one. “The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want” is the most famous verse in Scripture on God the Husbandman of husbandmen. Men are His flock, His field, His household. Men can lead, provide, and care for others because they know God is leading, providing, and caring for them. Without Him, they are dead branches.  

• Isaiah 5:7:  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant.

• John15:5:  "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

The first thing we can do to encourage men as men is to teach, remind, and emphasize that God is in their world—the world of men—to lead, provide, protect, and cultivate them.

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Update on Bill’s health

Bill has greatly enjoyed November and December with his family and friends. He was in the queue for a stem cell transplant, however, we recently discovered that his cancer has recurred, so he is no longer eligible for a stem cell transplant. Currently, more diagnostics are being run, and it is likely that he will proceed in some clinical trials. We are very disappointed, but we are walking by faith and not by sight.

For more updates from him, click here.

Grace and peace,
Bill and Barbara Mouser

October 2021 Communique

Dear Friends and Prayer Partners,

God is putting the wheels back on Aspects Ministries! 

Aspects Ministries has been re-grouping for the last two years due to Bill’s retirement, a double move, and a second cancer journey. But according to God’s enablement, we are re-establishing our team and our new home offices. We seem to be slimmer, trimmer, and in some ways better than ever! 

We have four major projects on the table (with more in the wings). We have not wanted to “over-promise,” but progress is now sufficient to let you know some specifics.

In order to deploy our newsletter more effectively, we are adding two new content features to the Communique.   

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Updates from Bill

Here is Bill without a beard and mustache for the first time in over 50 years. At least, he has a new cowboy hat! 

As I write this, Bill has completed four months of intensive chemo treatment for his rare cancer, which he continues to tolerate well. In a few weeks, a PET scan will reveal where we are and what the next step in Bill’s treatment will be. We thank everyone for the many prayers offered on his behalf. He has written a series of updates about his meditations on life and death during this journey. These messages have been well received and edification to many.  For this reason, we include the series on our website.

Here is the link to Bill’s Updates >

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The Transgender Onslaught

Most of you are aware of the transgender delusion sweeping our country and world. This peril has been much on our minds as we regroup and plan for ministry. For this reason, we have selected the following question as the first in a series of frequently asked questions that we hope to address in the coming months.

Why has the transgender delusion become so prevalent so quickly?

Article Summary: The transgender delusion has become prevalent because it is both logical and inevitable. Built on a foundation of powerful lies in concert, it can only be countered by saints who believe the whole counsel of God and wear His whole armor.

Read the full article here >

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Spanish Version of Seven Principles of Sexuality Coming Soon!

In the works for almost two years, our new Spanish version of Seven Principles of Sexuality is just about ready for launch. We are very grateful for the translation work of Monica Sernatinger, the editing of Isai Cazares, and the formatting and cover design by Kristine Vermillion. As Five Aspects supporters, please be thinking about friends and associates who minister in Spanish to whom you can give or recommend this basic work on biblical sex and gender truth. We are planning a re-launch of the English version at the same time. Hopefully, as the Lord wills and enables, both of these books will be available before Thanksgiving at a generous price reduction.    

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Bryan Vermillion—new team member!

Bryan Vermillion, Aspects’ new steward of archives and security. Here the men are discussing carpentry in Bill’s woodworking garage. 

We are very grateful that Bryan Vermillion (Kristine’s husband) has volunteered to manage our ministry’s digital archives and their security. As Bryan saw Kristine handling multiple Aspects files in her work as an editor and designer, he felt a strong motivation to organize and preserve our work, which is a job he already does for his own business. 

We are very grateful.

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Closing Statements

Other projects and publications are on the table, but they can wait for the new year. In the meantime, please pray for us and the remnant in every country to believe the whole counsel of God and to put on the whole armor of light. 

Grace and Peace,
Bill and Barbara

July 2021 Communique

Celebrating with the Vermillion Family in May at the Mouser Home

A Season of Big Transitions Comes to a Close

Five Aspects Ministries (FAM) has undergone several big transitions in the last two years. 

• Bill has retired from the pastorate.

• Aspects offices have moved from the Chapel to the Mouser and Perry homes.

• The Mousers have downsized to their retirement home in the heart of Waxahachie.

• The Francesca Chapel has been sold to another Anglican church.

We are very grateful for God’s grace and enablement in all these transitions. 

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Bill’s Cancer Has Recurred

Bill and Barbara on their 40th anniversary earlier this year

Just as we were settling in our new domicile, we had an exciting trip to the ER which finally resulted in a diagnosis of recurrent leukemia. It seems Bill’s specific leukemia was not correctly diagnosed during his first bout with cancer three years ago. Now it has been determined that he has a rare and more serious leukemia.  He has undergone two cycles of five-day continuous infusions of chemo at UT Southwestern in Dallas and will be hospitalized for another cycle July 12. After that, there will be an evaluation. 

In the meantime, we are deeply grateful for the outpouring of love and prayers on his behalf. Amazingly, he has felt very well during these powerful infusions and his blood counts remain surprisingly high. Needless to say, the prayers of our extended Aspects family will be greatly appreciated as we travel in this new part of the pilgrimage.

(For those of you who would like to receive Bill’s updates on his progress, write him at Rivilian@gmail.com.)

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Moving Aspects Ministries Forward

All these transitions (except the cancer!) result in a more simplified life for the Mousers, opening a window for the Mousers to focus on a new season of productivity for this ministry. Bill and Barbara have been involved in Bible teaching and gender-focused ministries for decades. They have a backlog of wisdom and content that is still very relevant (perhaps more relevant than ever). It is their purpose and prayer to push a lot of this material “out the door” through publishing and other avenues in coming days and years. 

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Introducing Kristine Vermillion,
Editor for Aspects Ministries

Kristine Vermillion, New Editor at Aspects Ministries

To help expand our publishing output, Aspects Ministries is hiring Kristine Vermillion as a part-time editor. Kristine is superbly qualified for this work. Deeply committed to Scripture and thematic Bible study, Kristine has been actively involved with Aspects as a student and teacher for the past 20 years. With a background in nursing and literature, she completed her Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary in May of this year. Kristine is a wife and the mother of three. She lives in the Houston area where she helps with the family business and enjoys her garden. Her skill in language, theology, and especially her oneness of mind with the Mousers makes her a most welcome addition to our team.

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Praises and Petitions

1. The Mousers are deeply grateful to God for bringing us through all the transitions mentioned above. The sale of the Chapel was especially supernatural.

2. Please pray for God’s grace and peace to be upon Bill as he undergoes extraordinary cancer treatments and for God’s healing according to His timing and will. 

3. Pray for those working on the Aspects team to build up some momentum in editing and publishing a new body of material for our embattled time. 

2020 - Year in Review

Dear Five Aspects Friends,

We send greetings in the name of the Lord and many thanks for your faithful prayers and financial support during the last year.  And what a year it has been!

2020 A Year of Many Transitions

As we told you in April, Bill retired as the priest at St. Athanasius parish in March. In July, we decided to sell our home of 32 years to our fourth daughter Veronica and her husband so that they and their four children can enjoy the spaciousness and countryside we no longer need.  

Mousers moving

September 14th we moved into our retirement home at 408 Gardenia Lane in the center of Waxahachie.  This has made for a double mov - from the chapel to home, and from our old home to our new one which is half the square footage of our previous home. Needless to say, there has been a lot of consolidating and downsizing!  In 30 years, ICGS has accumulated a lot of records, historical documents, and resources.  Barbara has sorted through almost every page. It has been quite a trip down memory lane recalling many loved friends, co-laborers, and more trips and events than we even remembered!

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Paul Stanley 

Remembering Paul Stanley

On the topic of remembering beloved co-laborers, none could be more worthy of note than Paul Stanley who went to be with the Lord Thanksgiving Day, three days short of his 79th birthday. Paul was a key leader, board member, friend, and supporter of ICGS since its inception in 1991. As an athlete, a decorated soldier, and a former vice-president of the Navigators, Paul made disciples his entire life. In December 2017, we ran this picture of Paul at age 75 disciplining a young man, in this case using Five Aspects of Man material. 

“But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest
and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.”

— Luke 8:15

This was the verse we ran with that tribute. We cannot think of a better one now. 

Thank you, Paul, for being the good soil, and for bearing fruit with perseverance. We rejoice as we consider the rest and crowns that are yours. 

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Prayer requests:

Bill and kids making cookies

1. Wisdom to keep our materials available and to provide biblical answers for the gender questions that only proliferate as fresh waves of sexual brokenness sweep over our world.

2. Blessings on our Spanish translator and reader who are working on the Spanish version of Seven Principles of Sexuality. 

3. Grace, courage, and strength for the men and women who are facilitating Aspects classes in their homes and on line. 

4. Wisdom for Bill (73) and Barbara (70 the day after Christmas!)  to discern new and level paths in this new chapter of life.  Psalm 27:11 and 14:   Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a level path Because of my foes…. 14 Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD. We especially desire to finish strong and to be an encouragement to the saints.

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Praises

1. Woody Perry continues to work for ICGS from home, taking care of innumerable administrative details. We are so grateful for her faithfulness even in the midst of so much change.

2. Thanks for Paul and Phyllis Stanley and their over 30 years of loving labor with ICGS and the Mousers.

3. Praise to the Lord Jesus Christ for coming to this turbulent world to be our Savior—the same yesterday, today, and forever!

In Him,

Bill and Barbara

Thanksgiving and Praise in Transition

We are well and safe and very grateful that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever—no matter how chaotic the world might seem.

Many thanks to all who have continued to pray for us, who carry on Aspects ministries, and who send financial support even when there seems to be good reasons not to do these things. Thank you so much for continuing to labor in the Lord and to co-labor with us!

Please know that our materials are still available as usual here on our website. Woody is processing orders, and we are here to answer questions as needed. Even though we are in some transitions (see below), ICGS is alive and well, and the Mousers still seek to serve you through this ministry and in other ways as the Lord leads.

Encouraging Words

• God has provided a man very fluent in both English and Spanish to be an editor and reader for the Spanish translation of Seven Principles of Sexuality that is underway. This is a specific answer to prayer.

• An enterprising Aspects facilitator has taken the social-distancing era as an opportunity for online ministry. She is leading a refresher course on the Five Aspects and has 11 students.

• Barbara has a refresher student online for the Seasons of God course as well.

• We get good questions from you about Bible, application, and ministry--enough to keep us busy. We are glad to know you are out there and working.

News

Late last year Bill decided to retire from his ministry as priest at St. Athanasius Anglican Church. We were in the midst of moving our ICGS offices home and seeking a new resident for the chapel when the corona virus struck. So we have had a double layer of transition and change going on in recent weeks and months.

Barbara’s home office

Woody’s home office

Bill’s home office

Nevertheless, these transitions are going well. Woody has moved her office home which actually facilitates her work, and we are expanding our home offices to include a few more administrative duties. We will be keeping the chapel for the foreseeable future, and are praying fervently for God’s best use of it. We did not field a spring conference this year because of our transitions. As it turns out, it was for the best since it would have been cancelled anyway because of the virus. We are not opposed to doing conference work, but in the future it will have to be with the help of others.

Barbara has been somewhat bad in taking the quarantine as an excuse to throw off admin work and do nothing but write on projects she likes (e.g., God through the New Testament). But she sees the need to repent of that and keep up on daily work. Moving the office home is a great time for sifting files. It is quite an experience to go through 50 years of Bible teaching materials and 30 years of ICGS history! She is not done yet, but has made significant progress.

Prayer Requests

1. We’re sure you are praying fervently for our nation, the church, the lost, and the sick. We will not elaborate on those much needed petitions here.

2. Pray that we would wisely follow the Lord through the transitions of Bill’s partial retirement and the virus crisis.

3. Pray that we establish ourselves as older believers in the relationships and works that will most serve Christ. Our goal is to Consolidate and Entrust—our stuff, our teaching, and our lives.

Grace and peace,

Bill and Barbara

P.S. A Practical Matter

Please remember that charges for our materials will show up on your credit card bills under International Council for Gender Studies, not Five Aspects. When customers disallow our charges because they don’t recognize the name, it causes us multiple difficulties.  Thank you!

2019 - Year in Review

2019 has been a full and blessed year for the Five Aspects Ministry and the Mousers. Please join with us as we Praise the Lord! for His enduring faithfulness and fruit! Here are the highlights:

Bill and Barbara connect with long-time ministry friend Kelly Moore and Logan Mason as they begin a new study.

• New Website and Catalog!

• Five Aspects Changing Lives in Ethiopia

• More Spanish Translations – Seven Principles!

• Bill Receives Honorary Doctorate

• Women’s Spring Conference a Delight

• Connecting with Ministry Friends

We also ask you to please consider supporting our ministry – sales of teaching materials make up around half of our operating expenses. The Five Aspects Ministry continues because of the people who make donations to support us in our mission to shine the light of Biblical manhood and womanhood.

New Website and Catalog!

Geneva works from home on the website.

The next generation is receiving the baton and preparing the Five Aspects ministry to reach out in this increasingly technological and global mission field. Bill and Barbara’s daughter Geneva worked for months with our new web developer, Dan Olson, to edit, design, build, and launch a new website and catalog. Thank you to everyone who bore with us as we worked through technical bugs! We look forward to deploying our new website as a ministry resource for teaching and encouragement in ministry! Praise the Lord! Favorite new features include:

• Smart-phone compatibility

• Free first chapters as PDF downloads for all of our publications to enhance your outreach and jump start your Bible study schedule.

• Audio sermons on gender issues

• New Five Aspects of Man lecture recordings

• Read and share our Christmas Article on Lifegivers and Saviors

Five Aspects Changing Lives in Ethiopia!

Debbie Stoppa is leading a Five Aspects initiative in Ethiopia, where she grew up as a missionary kid. We are grateful to co-labor with her in this important and expanding field. Read her entire report here!

Praise the Lord!

Debbie Stoppa with her class in Soddo, Wolaita, Ethiopia

More Spanish Translations – Seven Principles!

Monica Sernatinger has agreed to translate Seven Principles of Sexuality into Spanish. Monica is an excellent translator having already produced the Spanish Five Aspects of Femininity for Young Women. Seven Principles is our broadest and most foundational Bible study on gender – designed to speak to men, women, singles, couples, and groups. It is also our most succinct study – it can be completed in seven weeks. We are grateful for Monica’s work to carry this teaching into another language! Praise the Lord!

Bill Receives Honorary Doctorate

Bill Mouser was invited to address the clergy of the Orthodox Anglican Church on the topic of "Gender and the Eucharist" and was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work in the study of Scripture and sexuality. A re-formatted manuscript of his “Gender and the Eucharist” seminar will be forthcoming on our website! Praise the Lord!

Women’s Spring Conference a Delight

The April Wisdom House Conference on Five Aspects of Man for Women was blessed with mature interaction and 37 attendees representing eleven states. Several groups have followed-up with us about plans to use the conference materials in Bible study classes, and we are planning an online roll-out of the conference materials on our website. (More about this in 2020.) Praise the Lord!

Staying in Touch

Barbara enjoyed a special get-together with women from Watermark Church in Dallas this spring. Bill and Barbara also reconnected with Kelly Moore (pictured at the top of the newsletter) as she begins a new Aspects study in Texas.

Steve and Marie Ramey continue to partner with Bill and Barbara on teaching Biblical sexuality in Kansas City. Bill did a day conference on the Savior Aspect for men, and Barbara had tea with the women! The Rameys have been in ministry with the Mousers since the 1980’s!

Praise the Lord for the faithfulness of friends in ministry and for the fruit of their service!

Thanksgivings for Work Fellowship

Bill and Barbara are especially thankful this year for Woody's continued service and indispensable help and for Geneva and Dan bringing wonderful new, fresh, and much needed skills and insights to our team.

Praise the Lord!

Ethiopia 2019

Debbie Stoppa’s report concerning her 2019 Five Aspects trip to Ethiopia with her father:

After this trip to Ethiopia, I am even more convinced that Five Aspects is desperately needed in the 3rd world, where women grow up not feeling valued and are asked to do many things that are not Biblical.  Your study had such a deep, almost guttural reaction from the women, that it is hard to describe the extent of its impact.  

Here's one example...one night my Dad and I were awakened by a disturbance outside our window (we were right next to the women's "dorm" rooms.  There were excited noises and voices, but we couldn't figure out what was going on.  The next day before class started, I asked one of the students what happened...she sheepishly said, we were just so excited about the material you are teaching us- we just couldn't keep quiet!  In a nutshell, that explains how my 2 plus weeks went.  The women heard the Word, accepted it and were changed by it.  Not only changed, but ready to share it with the women in their sphere of influence.  Since they are all leaders in their churches, they will be given a platform to share what they learned.  

The area where I taught was Wolaita, in the city of Soddo.  It is an area that has over 1.5 million believers. The city has over 25 churches, five of which have 3000-5000 attendees per week.  The church is so strong here that they send out missionaries to other areas and have women on staff at their churches.  The Ethiopian leaders expressed their deep gratitude for the missionaries that put so much effort into teaching 40 yrs ago when my Dad taught in the Bible school there.  We got to see the faithfulness of God over the last 50+ years.  Now the local church and seminary is completely run by nationals...which was my Dad's vision some 40 years ago!  Praise God!

I feel so blessed to have been able to take the GOOD NEWS of the beauty of Woman to them.  Thank you for creating Five Aspects-  for all of the time and energy you spent over the last 30 years improving it and making it better each time.

I hope the Lord will raise up Five Aspects teachers who will be willing to take the material overseas.  I pray that the Lord will give many opportunities and invitations to go.  The impact will be double or triple what it is in the US.  We are so fortunate to live in a culture where women are already valued.  In 3rd world countries, it is not a given, so when they see what it really means to be made in God's image, they can't help but be changed.  I know I was extremely blessed because these women had a firm Biblical background, so when they were confronted with God's design, even with submission, they were able to embrace it.  Now, they are crying out for their men to know how to value women.  Even though there is a distinct difference between the way a believing man treats his wife, they still have a long way to go.  (My dad thinks one of the male profs. should teach the men Five Aspects of Woman, so they can understand how much God values women and how being a strong woman can complement men.)   Anyway, another subject for another time!

Thanks again for your work and for allowing us to spread God's amazing news. 

Warm Regards in the name of Jesus Christ,

Debbie Stoppa