From the girlsminister.com mailbag: FREEBIE girl nite idea

Sep 15, 2009 by     No Comments    Posted under: Featured, Freebies, Girls Ministry

Jennifer Grether, Girls Ministry director from FBC Orlando, contacted me last week to share what they did with the L.Y.L.A.S Girl night idea that we posted here: L.Y.L.A.S Girl night idea

I asked if I could pass it along to the rest of our girlsminister.com  community and she was glad to share. Thanks Jennifer for letting us know what you did with the L.Y.L.A.S night and it looks like it turned out beautiful! Your pictures are amazing. Thanks for sharing Jennifer!  And if you have ideas or you have used something that has worked out well…PLEASE let us know. We’d love to share with the girlsminister.com community.  Also there are about 45 girls ministers, moms, and leaders starting to connect at www.mygirlsministry.com “The social network for girlsminister.com”.  So feel free to join and start some conversations there.  We have some great blogs that are featured on there as well.  Pam Gibbs from Lifeway.com/girlsministry is on there as well as some girls ministers from Texas—come see what you are missing out on!

FROM THE MAILBAG:

Thanks to your idea (at girlsminister.com), we just hosted a LYLAS girls night about two weeks ago and it was great! We had about 100 girls and over 20 volunteers show up! We changed some of the stations around, so I wanted to share those with you.   Jennifer Grethan FBC Girls Ministry Director

Stations:

1. L – “Love” – Love one another – At this station, we will focus on selflessness and humility as the key to love. Jesus showed his disciples selfless love by washing their feet, so at this station we will wash each other’s feet and paint toenails.
2. Y – “You” – You are unique – At this station, we will highlight the truth that God has given us individual gifts and has made us uniquely wonderful through a teambuilding exercise (human knot).
3. L – “Life” – Do life together – At this station, we will teach girls to make a simple and easy snack, enjoy some refreshments and ask some getting to know you questions.
4. A – “Ask” — Bring each other’s burdens to the Lord – At this station, girls will break down into groups of two or three, share prayer requests, and pray with each other.

Getting her tribal paint

human knot2 FBC orlando

LOVE station

hanging out in between stations

sportin her L.Y.L.A.S tribal mark

Mentoring in a flash(card) freebie for moms.

Sep 8, 2009 by     4 Comments    Posted under: Featured, Freebies, Girls Ministry, Mentoring, Moms

MENTORING IN A FLASH(CARD)

Today we are releasing free some mentoring helps for moms. Girlsminister.com has created a new resource called Mentoring in a flash(card) to help moms have some special moments in the margins of life with their daughter. Let us know if you like them and we’ll keep them coming. Click on the picture to the left to download the pdf. All we ask is that you make sure and credit where you found it if you reprint or repost.

creative common licence

Sep 8, 2009 by     No Comments    Posted under: Girls Ministry

Mentoring in a flash(card) by Amy-Jo Girardier is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

A free girlsministry database template

Sep 5, 2009 by     No Comments    Posted under: Girls Ministry

We’ve just made a template for girlsministers everywhere! It’s available to you if you have a gmail account. If you don’t have a gmail…I encourage you to get one just to use this database. You can customize it for your personal use. You can embed this form into your website or send a link in an email. All the information is sent to a spreadsheet that you host at your google docs account. Then you can export it to excel, pdf or other formats. Hope this is helpful for you! I used a customized form this past week as we sorted almost 200 girls into 17 lifegroups and it was extremely helpful to me. Enjoy! (click picture below to see the preview of the template.)

girlsministry database template

http://tiny.cc/girlsministrydata

What best describes you as a girls ministry leader: Are you a canal or a reservoir?

Sep 1, 2009 by     No Comments    Posted under: Girls Ministry

As a new school year begins, I can’t help but feel a little winded from a summer of giving. I knew it was time to take a spiritual inventory before I continued to give as a girls minister to our leaders and girls. I have a folder titled “Spiritual vitality” which I had created almost 6 years ago that contains some nuggets of wisdom and some checklists to help me personally in terms of my “giving meter”. It had some scraps and documents scanned in from various retreats and/or conferences I had attended. In one of the documents, it contained the following paragraph. and so I thought I would share it with those who also are constantly giving of themselves in hopes that you too take wisdom from the 12th century as I did.
Wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century)

We must not give to others what we have received for ourselves; nor must we keep for ourselves that which we have received to spend on others. You fall into the latter error, if you possess the gift of eloquence or wisdom, and yet–through fear or sloth or false humility–neglect to use the gift for others’ benefit. And on the other hand, you dissipate and lose what is your own, if without right intention and from some wrong motive, you hasten to outpour yourself on others when your soul is only half-filled.

If you are wise therefore you will show yourself a reservoir and not a canal. For a canal pours out as fast as it takes in; but a reservoir waits till it is full before it overflows, and so communicates its surplus…We have all too few reservoirs in the Church at present, though we have canals a plenty…they (canals) desire to pour out when they themselves are not yet inpoured; they are readier to speak than to listen. excercise authority on others, although they have not yet learnt to rule themselves..Let the reservoir of which we spoke just now take pattern from the spring; for the spring does not form a stream or spread into a lake until it is brimful…Be filled thyself, then, but discreetly, mind, pour out thy fullness…Out of thy fullness help me if thou canst; and , if not, spare thyself.

Extracted from Great Devotional Classics: Selections from the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, Edited by Douglas Steere (The Upper Room, 1961). pages 24-25
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