Girls of Grace

At my church there is a class called Girls of Grace. Girls start this class in 1st grade and graduate in 6th grade. I graduated from Girls of Grace quite awhile ago. In Girls of Grace (GOG) young girls learn how to grow up to be a godly woman, who's desire is to serve God, her children, her husband, and her friends. These girls learn how to cook, clean, sew, knit, crochet, sing prasie, devote time to the Lord, and most importantly, how to become Godly women who serve the Lord. In the GOG classroom, there are 2 or 3 adult teachers, who are usually Moms of some of the girls in the class, and a junior leader, who is a high school aged girl. This high school girl is selected by the overall leaders of GOG. Much to my pleasure, I was selected as a Junior leader. This has been a dream of mine since I was in the first grade. It is such an honor to be chosen because of the high requirements to be selected. This girl has to be involved in church, a christian, kind to everyone, caring, and like a big sister to all of the girls in the Girls of Grace class. I about cried when I was asked to do this. It was such an honor that all of these well-respected, christain women in my church thought that I was good enough to be a junior leader.

One of the duties of a Junior leader is to come up with creative activites and crafts for the girls to do. This is something I am going to struggle with, all of the other Junior leaders are crafty and creative, they spent their childhood doing crafts and creative things. I grew up on a farm, the only bit of creative I expirienced was asking Daddy to make shapes out of the pile hay bails, or seeing how many people could stand on the hayloft floor before it fell through, or arranging a handful of prairie flowers without getting stung by a bee. (That's a different story...) So I am putting every once of creative craftiness into trying to come up with ideas for these girls. It is really hard, but at the same time it is my responsibility, so it will get done, and it will be done with all smiles by this girl! :)

Please pray for perserverence and guidence through this whole process! It is a big step for me, but I am willing to accept this challenge.