One of our first activities involved a whole lot of coins, blindfolds & gloves/mittens. Different girls volunteered to try to collect as many coins as they could in one minute while blindfolded & wearing some sort of gloves. Everyone else enjoyed the amusement as they tried to pick up the coins & find the cup to put them in.
Heather & Gretchen with work gloves on...
Cecily, wearing snow gloves, trying to find her cup.
Melissa helping Audri get her snow mittens on...
Sophie helps lead Jenna to the starting place..
After this activity we talked about "spiritual gloves" that we wear that prevent us from being sensitive to the needs of others. Just like it would have been easier for the girls to collect the coins without any gloves on, it's much easier for us to be sensitive to others when our pride or selfishness is not keeping us from recognizing those needs.
After the lesson, we made an "encouragement web" with yarn. Everyone stood in a circle and each girl would take a ball of yarn, hold part of it & throw it to someone. The girl who threw the yarn would give an encouragement for the person she threw the yarn to. We threw the yarn back & forth, always holding on to it until everyone had been encouraged & it created a big web.
It was really sweet to see the girls encourage each other.
Once the encouragement web was over, everyone split up into small groups to discuss the lesson and pray. I don't typically get pictures of the small groups so I tried to get at least one shot of each group this evening.
The Rebekah Group...
The Mary Group...
The Esther Group...
Finally, we ended with tea & fellowship. This week, because of our lesson, I encouraged the girls to sit with someone they didn't know very well during tea time. It was fun to see everyone all mixed up & enjoying each others company. :)
Sarah, Brooke, Katie & Cecily...
Haleigh, Karen, Audri & Jenna...
Kalei, Martha, Rachel, Sydney & Jessica...
Katelyn & Jenna...
In our group, if you sit near Shelby & Sophie, this is what happens to those who refuse to pose for pictures... ;)
Gretchen & Sophie..
Shelby & Sarah...
Impromptu movie production?
Allison, Jenny & Rachel...
Sarah & Taylor...
Once again, I really enjoyed my time with you ladies this evening. I'm looking forward to our next meeting on April 12th! See you soon!
That's so neat you did the web activity! That's one I made up and sent to the BL office :-)
ReplyDeleteWe had our meeting last night, too; on Friends. The girls really liked that one!
Blessings,
Laura(lea)
Yes, I got the idea from the leader's email... I didn't know it was your idea though! How neat. :) It was really fun.. we had too many girls to go backwards though. ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's great that they enjoyed your meeting. Friends is a fun topic. :)
I'm counting the days...
In Christ's Love,
Allison