Girl Scouts and Faith My Promise, My Faith Pin

1. Girl Scouts and Faith My Promise, My Faith Pin Everything in Girl Scouting is based on the Girl Scout Promise and Law. The Girl Scout Law includes many of the principles and values common to most faiths. Thus, while a secular organization, Girl Scouts has, since the movement began, encouraged girls to take spiritual journeys via their faiths' religious recognitions. Girls of all grade levels can now earn the My Promise, My Faith pin developed by Girl Scouts of the USA. This pin, which girls can earn once a year, complements existing religious recognitions and allows all girls to further strengthen the connection between their faith and Girl Scouts. A girl earns the My Promise, My Faith pin by carefully examining the Girl Scout Law and directly tying it to tenets of her faith.

2. The Girl Scout Law I will do my best to behonest and fair,friendly and helpful,considerate and caring,courageous and strong, andresponsible for what I say and do,and torespect myself and others,respect authority,use resources wisely,make the world a better place, andbe a sister to every Girl Scout.

3. Pilot Program – Service Unit response to Scout Sunday Celebration supported by the local Catholic Diocese Estero Pines Girl Scouts California’s Central Coast “My Promise, My Faith”Workshop What does Girl Scouting and your faith have in common?

5. Station 1 Choose one line from the Girl Scout Law. Find a story, song, or poem with same ideas. Talk about what the line of the Law and the story, song, or poem have in common. Station 3 Gather three inspirational quotes that fit with the line of the Law. Put them where you can see them every day Station 5 Keep the connection strong! Talk with your friends, family, and a group in your faith in community about what you’ve learned. Ask them to help you live the Law and your Faith. Did you find what Girl Scouting and your faith have in common? Station 2 Find an adult in the faith community. Ask how they try to use the line of the Law in their life. Station 4 Make something to remind you of what you’ve learned.

6. New Christian faith Based My Promise, My Faith Idea for GSCCC - Choose a Path! *Creation Path *Sisters in Christ Path *Christian Leadership Path *Faith and Works Path *Interfaith Path/Sharing your Faith Path *Discipleship Path

7. Creation Path • What this path explores… • God as Creator, what is means that God Created, and our natural posture as creatures within, among, and as creation. • Being a New Creation in Christ • Understand that creation is not synonymous with nature • Caring for creation/ the environment and why • Being a good steward of money, time, each other • Approaching life as a gift because all is created • How being a girl scout can help with the environment and these other topics • Being creative yourself, because you were created as a creature to be creative • Why being both Girl Scout and a Christian gives all girls the opportunity to care for creation.  

8. considerate and caring • responsible for what I say and do • use resources wisely • make the world a better place “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” ― Wendell Berry

9. Why we should care for the earth… …As Christians, caring for the earth extends beyond beach clean up days and planting a tree here or there. Caring for the earth is caring for creation, what God created out of His love for us. Caring for creation does not just mean caring for nature. Creation care includes loving, rejoicing in, giving thanksgiving to, and being good stewards of all that exists. All creatures deserve our love and care, and therefore creation care includes loving all creatures- humans and animals. This is our calling as Christians, and as Girl Scouts we are given the opportunity to do just this! We read this in the Girl Scout Law, and we can read this theme throughout all of Scripture- Creation care is not only our responsibility and gift- it is a theological mandate.

10. Theology… God in God’s self is infinite, eternal, holy, and perfect. God did not have to create but out of love God created. All of God’s creation, including us, are creatures. And it is in Christ that we can become a new creation. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

11. Sisters In Christ Path • What this path explores… • What it means to be a sister in Christ • What is means to serve and love each other • What Jesus says about this • What friendship and teamwork means • How being a girl scout implements these ideas and • can help build and develop relationships that are • founded and centered in Christ • Explores other’s faith • What Bible says about this all

12. Christian Leadership Path • What this Path explores: • Girls leaders in the church, Bible, and the world • How being a Girl Scout helps with each of these things • What the Bible has about women • How you can be a leader in the church and the world • How to lead each other • What the Bible says about this all

13. Faith and Works Path • What this Path explores: • How being both a Christian and a Girl Scout means • that you care about others and social justice issues • How to learn more about and serve in organizations • Understand how and why Jesus cared about these issues • Developing and exploring your role as a follower of Christ • Understanding the necessary relationship • between both faith and works • What Bible says about this all • Understanding why this matters being both a Christian and a girl scout

14. Inter-Faith Dialogue/Sharing your faith path • What this path explores: • What the Bible shows us/ tells us how to approach this • Helps girls learn to experience and approach girls in conversation • with girls of similar and different faiths • Learn about their faith in light of others • Develop a broader worldview and more diverse cultural perspective with • empathy, humility, and compassion. Learning to ask questions and listen • Gives girls both an opportunity to learn more about their own fait and others, • as well as listen to others about their faith and ultimately to share their own.

15. Discipleship Path • What this Path Explores… • See what Bible says about this • Girls will have the opportunity to learn the importance of discipleship • both being a disciple and also being disciple • Girls will learn about older women’s faith and have an opportunity • to share their own • Girls can see how being a girl scout is a great avenue to be in a position • to learn how to be s good leader and disciple for younger girls • Disciple a girl or have leader disciple you/small group

16. Troop Meeting Outline Pre-meeting early bird activity: A simple art, craft or activity Opening: Promise and Law, may include a song, game or poem Business: Dues, attendance, kapers; discussion of old, on-going or new issues; planning and making choices for future girl scout troop meetings. Major Activity: Learning in an active, hands-on, cooperative, girl-led way and having FUN! Clean Up: A Girl scout always leaves a place better than she found it! Use a kaper chart to divide up “troop chores.”

18. Workshop One Every girl should find a hymn, psalm, prayer, or reading from their faith from the following available resources. (The girls are responsible for bringing at least one of the following in, and the leader has freedom and opportunity to bring in as much as possible) Computer, Book, Songbook/ Music brought in, Bible, Bible Commentary, Prayer Book, Environmental Book (you can choose a Christian author) i.e.) Wendell Berry, Normal Wirzba, Ellen Davis etc.

19. Workshop Two Girls should bring in a woman to the Gathering, or all girls should organize a trip to go to a garden or something to talk to a woman who is a Christian and is a gardener or a local farmer who is a Christian. The goal is for the girls to creatively think of and find a faithful woman who is actively involved in some form of creation care. This does not just means plants…it can mean caring for all creatures, animals and people included, they are creatures too! 

20. Workshop Three Find three inspirational quotes by women that fit with that line of the Girl Scout Law. Put them somewhere you can see them every day to remind you to live that line of the Law. -Girls can do this during the meeting. They can explore internet, book, magazine, or Bible stories. -The girls can create posters or plant a flower or something that reminds them of what they learned. -The girls can design bracelets or write the quotes on paper and frame them and put them in their room. -This is also an opportunity for girls to create something for others to be reminded of the importance of caring for creation, therefore it can be created for a Sunday School room or church or be accessible to the larger community. -The girls can paint a mural that advocates for creation care and being good stewards of the earth. -Girls can plant a little garden at their church or in the community.

21. Workshop Four • Make something, like a drawing, painting, or poster that reminds you of what you’ve learned. You could also write a story or develop and perform a skit.

22. Workshop Five • Make a commitment to live what you’ve learned. You may want to talk to your friends, family, or a group in your faith community about how you plan to live what you’ve learned in your daily life. Maybe you’d enjoy showing them what you just made or performing your skit! You can also choose to make a private commitment to yourself. • Be involved with organization…or community garden, or plant something…do cleanup etc. • A walk or hike or something in nature…maybe even something with animals.

23. “The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are the makers.” Juliette Gordon Low