Worship services and all other scheduled activities will be cancelled any time there is an official Weather Bureau Tornado Watch or Tornado Warning in the area of Cook County--one hour before the start of the service or activity.
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The GEMS Girls' Club is for girls
in grades 1 thru 8.
We will meet from 7-8:45 pm
on the first & third Fridays of the month.
Our 2011-2012 theme is:
Get Wisdom - Go Beyond the Gold
Our 2011-2012 season is underway!
Please note our new day & time listed above!
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GEMS Girls' Clubs is a relationship building, club program created especially for girls! GEMS Clubs are offered in local churches and other Christian organizations all across the US and Canada.
Girls in first through eighth grades are eligible for membership. In club, many fun and exciting things happen:
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- Participate in team building
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- Enjoy dynamic singing, creative movement, signing, and dance
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- Develop important life skills through badge activities
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- Learn how to apply the Bible to your life
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- Make creative and fun crafts
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- Participate in service projects that make a difference in other's lives
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- Find answers to challenges that girls face today
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The purpose of GEMS Girls' Clubs is to help bring girls into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. To help foster this all-important relationship between each girl and Christ, other relationships are nurtured as well ? between girls and between girls and their
counselor (leader).
Girls in clubs are organized into small groups with one leader or counselor for each group of six to eight girls. And it is through these small groups, and the weekly interactions that take place in club that faith is nurtured and developed, and long lasting friendships are made.
The ministry of GEMS Girls' Clubs has been serving churches for over forty-nine years. During these years, thousands of girls' lives have been changed forever. Today, there are more than 23,000 girls who are members of GEMS Girls' Clubs, with 5,200 women enthusiastically serving as their counselors and mentors.
The ministry is non-denominational with club participation in several different denominations and non-denominational churches and other Christian organizations throughout the United States and Canada. GEMS has been recognized as the official youth serving agency for the Christian Reformed Church. Curriculum is developed from a reformed perspective.
The name GEMS is an acronym which stands for
Girls Everywhere Meeting the Savior.
It clearly identifies the purpose for which the ministry was created.
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The goal of Olympic athletes is to go for the gold;
for girls of wisdom it’s to go beyond the gold!
How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!
The highway of the upright avoids evil; he who guards his way guards his life (Proverbs 16:16-17).
In the GEMS Games of the Olympiad, girls will experience a theme venue of Olympic proportions
that will equip them to examine the choices they need to make and measure them to
the wisdom and disciplines of the book of Proverbs.
Girls will be inspired to
Get Wisdom:
Go beyond the Gold!
See you at the games! |
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