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100 | Presented by Jean Selles and Pat Scott Your first through third graders are excited and eager to be in GEMS! As a new counselor we will help guide you through the variety of Awareness Level curriculum choices, the badge work options, how to incorporate Sparkle Magazine, and provide fun and interactive ideas for you as you begin to teach the Awareness Level!
This workshop is for new counselors who are teaching fourth through sixth graders and are unfamiliar with the Discovery Level curriculum. Join us and we’ll walk with you through a typical club night, show you how to use SHINE brightly Magazine, the Discovery Place Badge Book, how to incorporate crafts-with-a-purpose, discuss great tips for developing relationships, and much more!
Advanced Level girls face intense peer pressure, complex relationship issues, and untold challenges and struggles. You have the unique privilege to positively mentor, encourage, and build relationships with these seventh and eighth grade girls! If you are a new Advanced Level Counselor this is the workshop for you! We will take an in-depth look at all the curriculum options and offer advice for great relationship-building opportunities.
Are you a new Club Coordinator and uncertain about where to start? Join us as we walk you through all the details you need to know about leading your club, encourage you as you enfold and affirm your counselors and teammates, and discuss all the essential checklists, calendars, and tools you need to successfully lead!
Counselors will find many theme related music selections listed in your 2010-2011 Theme Resource Book! Join Colleen and Grace for this workshop as they lead you through listening and singing some of these songs. Each song will weave the Feed the Fire! theme throughout all your praise and worship times!
Blank stares or “I don’t know.” Is this what you sometimes face when you ask girls questions? This workshop will introduce a variety of question-asking strategies that you can use with the GEMS curriculum to bring a fresh dimension to learning and building relationships.
Getting tired of the way kids treat each other, treat property, and treat you?! Disrespect, teasing, harassment, bullying, vandalism, and physical violence are far too common in our communities, schools, and churches, and it all affects the confidence, security, and productivity of both young people and leaders. Adults can maintain a climate of caring and still hold students accountable for their actions, but it begins with YOU taking responsibility for your behavior when you see disrespectful or hurtful behavior happening. Join us for a discussion of the relationship between caring, consistency, and consequences. This session is guaranteed to empower and encourage any adult who works with children of all ages!
If you struggle to display the Theme Banner in your club, this is the workshop for you! Join us as we make a full-sized banner of this season’s theme: Feed the Fire! for you to take back to your club. Learn to walk through the pattern from the Theme Resource Book. The registration deadline for this workshop is May 15. Cost: $25.00 will be collected at the beginning of the workshop. Workshop limited to the first 25 participants.
Have you ever wondered: How can I make a difference in the lives of young girls? OR Is there someone I can open up my heart to? We know you are hungry to be developed. You desire to grow and become more of who you were created to be. Join us in this workshop as we discuss what it means to grow in your own faith, to seek out women who can develop you, and how you can use your gifts and abilities to be a mentor to someone else. Together, we will not only describe what qualities to look for in a mentor, but also ways to build upon your strengths in order to impact the development of the girls you mentor.
Have you ever sought to better understand the mindset of your GEMS girls? What are girls thinking about? How do they process information? What is going on in their lives? What information do they need to successfully navigate the future? Join Sara Hilton, senior editor of both SHINE brightly and Sparkle Magazines as we discuss these issues and how they pertain to how and why magazine content is selected. Through a backdoor look into the magazines, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how to utilize them to positively impact the lives of your GEMS. We will also touch on practical ways to teach the Bible lessons, how to utilize available technology and online resources, and how to help the girls dig into the magazine content.
Has God done amazing things in your life? Do you wish you felt more comfortable talking with others about the things He has done for you? Everyone has a story to tell, and the Telling My Story scrapbook kit is the perfect way for you and the girls in your life to record what God has done in and through you! In this workshop you will receive your own Telling My Story kit – all that is needed for writing/journaling and showing/scrapbooking your own faith story. Whether you’re a seasoned scrapbooker or feel creatively deficient, this scrapbook kit is simple and user-friendly! We promise! You’ll receive all you need to get started plus see a sample of the available girls’ scrapbook kit. Cost: $12.00 will be collected at the beginning of the workshop.
Looking for a special outing to bring girls into nature? Want to teach girls the basics about safety and outdoor activities? Or, are you planning an overnight camp experience for girls in your club or area? Join us outside by the lake as we experience how setting up a camp site, hiking, and canoeing can be great additions to any special, outside activity. Julie has spent 12 years a GEMS counselor, 10 years as a Cadet Corps Counselor and BSA Scoutmaster, and is a Wood Badge Course Training Staff member. She will help you understand some of the basics about teaching the hiking and camping badges from the NEW Discovery Place Badge Book. Please wear good shoes and comfortable clothing.
Join “Gramma Farm” as she gives ideas and recipes for fun foods and healthy snacks to make with your GEMS. You’ll be sampling foods that can be used to share during club night snack time, at theme parties, and/or to prepare for GEMS badges such as cake decorating, cooking, candy making, and baking. This gramma loves sharing the kitchen with her grandkids, and you are sure to leave her workshop eager to share some kitchen enjoyment with your GEMS!
Are you intimidated by the "lol, ttyl, and tweeting" world of kids today? Fear no more! This workshop will guide you through the basic steps of social media, texting, twittering, and more, including etiquette, boundaries, and privacy. We'll examine how social media shapes kids communication and how we can understand the dangers and benefits of participating in various social networking sites.
Unhealthy shame is often responsible for the things we can't stand about ourselves. Marilyn will share how God used His Word to begin exposing the negative messages she believed about herself. She will also offer some next steps to move out of our self lies and into God's encouraging truth.
It’s here, it’s new, and you’re gonna love it! In this workshop you will walk through lesson plans and badges designed to create hands-on learning experiences for girls that will ignite and grow interest in four different units of study and exploration. The NEW Discovery Place Badge Book has a fresh approach to badge activity that will teach girls to know God, to understand and apply God’s Word, to care for God’s world and His people, and, finally, to explore and use God’s gifts and talents.
Come and learn about one of this season’s NEW Advanced Level curriculums, True Beauty – for such a time as this! Based on the book of Esther, this Christian charm course is designed to empower today’s generation of girls to live set-apart, remarkably beautiful lives – inside and out. Learn how this Bible study, complete with quizzes, discussion questions, checklists, questionnaires, and more will inspire you and your club’s Advanced Level girls to passionately pursue an unfading, true beauty – for such a time as this (Esther 4:14).
Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths. Micah 4:2b. The NEW MTN curriculum seeks to guide Advanced Level girls up to the mountain of the LORD – growing closer to God by understanding more about who He is. Girls will study 24 of God's names - learning more about what it means that God is their heavenly Father, compassionate Healer, and devoted Friend. By learning more about who God is, girls will be inspired to respond to Him and take action in His name. In this workshop we’ll outline the curriculum, walk through one of the lessons, and review the accompanying Counselor Helps. This workshop will be filled with engaging questions, activities, and brainstorming to bring the truths alive in your club.
Join us for the debut of the NEW GEMS music CD that you’ll love to use in your club! Sarah will lead you in singing some of the new songs which encourage listeners to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our world and to show His love to our neighbors and to the nations. The music is inspired by The Esther School Project and includes voices of girls from Zambian GEMS. Through the songs you and your girls will be inspired to pray and work on behalf of our brothers and sisters EVERYWHERE. NEW songs include: Oh Praise Him, Your Name, Touching Heaven, Changed, Dream God’s Dream, Kafwa Wandi, and more!
Three questions: What does acceptance, loving others in Christ, and inclusion look like in my life? What does this look like in the lives of my GEMS? And, how do I relate this to children with special needs? If the answers to these questions don’t immediately pop to mind or if they make you feel uncomfortable then perhaps you should join us in this workshop! We’ll talk through these questions as well as many more as we learn, discuss, and brainstorm together.
If magic fairy truth dust transformed your pre-teen or teen into the perfect angel/prince for 30 minutes, what questions would you ask? And more importantly, do you think you’d be prepared for the answers? From cutting, eating disorders, sexting, social bullying, addictions, etc. the issues that pre-teens and teenagers are under are weighty. Join us as we explore cultural trends and issues facing middle schoolers and youth today that will help prepare you for better understanding the pressures your kids face and better equip you to guide and encourage them.
Are you looking for ways to encourage your fellow counselors, girls, and congregational members? Have you ever wondered what type of projects your girls can work on with the elderly, uniquely-abled children, or mentally challenged in your church? Join us for this stamping workshop where you’ll receive 20 ideas for projects you can do with your girls. Ideas that will bless, encourage, and involve the elderly and your uniquely-abled church members will also be offered. From simple stamped cards to creative craft ideas, you will come away with gift ideas to give and make together. Cost: $8.00 will be collected at the beginning of the workshop. Workshop limited to the first 30 participants.
This session is for anyone looking for large group, large space-based ideas and activities that can be used for club nights or special event activities. We’ll demonstrate the importance of using games to build relationships, open communication, teach trust and teamwork, and demonstrate basic life lessons.
Do you seek to add sparkle and pizzazz to your praise and worship time? Are you looking for new ways to get your girls excited, involved, and ready for worship? Join us in this workshop that will utilize a variety of sources of music, all of which will bring the Feed the Fire! theme alive. You will learn simple movements to a variety of praise and worship songs that will enhance your club openers, closing worship, and all other worship times!
Not a natural born teacher? Need some ideas on how to build relationships within your small group? Want to learn how to keep your girls engaged in the lessons you teach? Then this is the workshop for you! This session will feature two classroom teachers sharing their "bag of tricks" on how to keep kids involved in the lessons they teach. You will try out many different teaching techniques, attention grabbers, and games to keep your girls actively involved in your GEMS lessons! Also, learn ways to promote a lasting bond within your group. You will leave with plenty of new ideas to use with your small group!
Have you ever felt the challenges are insurmountable in infusing and connecting the lives of your church girls with the lives of your community girls? Has your club struggled in breaking through language, racial, and cultural differences, not to mention difference in basic spiritual knowledge? Join this panel of GEMS counselors who will provide practical tools to promote integration rather than segregation. Receive encouragement in how to implement community and unity and eradicate cliques. Learn how to use the GEMS materials in ways that are feasible and understandable for every GEM!
If you could choose just seven statements to share with children, what would they be? Based on the book Words Kids Need to Hear this workshop will educate, equip, and motivate parents and children's ministry teams to carefully choose words that build up kids' hearts, to say to them frequently, and to do so in creative ways. What children hear from trusted adults significantly influences their self-image, their current relationships, and future relationships—including that all-important relationship with God.
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