New Members Meeting 8/23/11

This evening we had 21 girls, who will be joining our Bright Lights group, come for a review of the Set One lessons. It was exciting to spend time with all these new young ladies. I'm so glad they'll be joining us this year, we have a group of great girls!

Here are some pictures from our evening..

 

I am really looking forward to our first official meeting of the year on September 13th! See you all then!

July & August Summer Activities

Well, here it is, the end of the summer. Everyone is beginning school, our group has had two wonderful summer events & I have very few pictures, if any, to show for it. I apologize for our lack of documentation. I suppose we were having too much fun to remember to snap a couple shots. :)

Both our July picnic & August birthday party were lots of fun, I'm looking forward to getting the school year started & seeing everyone soon!

August 23rd from 6:00-8:30 is our new members meeting. Please send me an RSVP soon if your daughter will be joining us.

Our first meeting for the school year will be September 13th from 6:15-8:15pm.

Blessings!

Siblings & Snacks Movie Night!

Last night was our group's first summer activity, a movie night! Girls brought their siblings, some yummy snacks & their favorite movie blanket as we gathered for fellowship and a movie: The Runner from Ravenshead.

We had a great evening with lots of giggles, munching and fuzzy pajama pants. :) There were some new families that joined us so it was nice to meet them. Thanks for joining us! I'm looking forward to our picnic in July! See you then!

End of the Year Meeting 5/24/11

We didn't get many photos from our end of the year meeting & ice cream party and I suppose that's why these are so late. :)

Each of the girls had a paper on her back & throughout the evening the girls would write notes of encouragement for each other.

We also had our very last small group meetings of the year...

The evening also included testimony writing & sharing, a slideshow/video recap of the year, awards & an ice cream sundae bar. Lots of smiles & hugs were shared as girls remembered everything the Lord had done in the group over the past year.

It has been a true joy for me to see sweet friendships, a passion for the Lord and an excitement for serving Jesus grow in our group this year. Ladies, thank you for your enthusiasm and kindness! Keep seeking the Lord with your whole hearts!

Summer Activities 2011

Stay connected with your Bright Lights friends this summer by joining us for one of our summer fellowship activities! We also welcome other young ladies who may be interested in Bright Lights to join us, please invite your friends! Contact Allison Whisler to RSVP for each of these activities.


Siblings & Snacks Movie Night
Friday June 17th 7:00-9:30pm, The Whisler’s Home
We’re inviting you to bring your siblings and cozy blankets along for a movie night full of laughter, snacks & fun! We’ll be using a projector & big screen to project a movie in our living room.

The featured entertainment will be San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival award-winner: The Runner From Ravenshead. This excellent movie, created by a homeschooling family, combines Little Rascals style escapades with Pilgrim’s Progress style allegories, creating a hilariously encouraging movie. The all-children cast and clean, Christian themes are sure to be a hit with you & your siblings.

Young ladies are encouraged to invite their older or younger siblings to attend this event with them. However, any attending younger siblings must be able to sit through the full-length feature film. Each family will be asked to bring a snack item which will be assigned when you RSVP. Please RSVP to Allison by June 15th.


Family Picnic
July 16th 11:30am-1:00pm, Hesse Park in O’Fallon
Bring your family, a picnic lunch & a couple folding chairs for a time of fellowship and games with other Bright Lights families. We will be renting a pavilion at the park for the picnic and will also provide a large cooler of drinking water. This park offers open play fields, baseball diamonds, basketball courts, playgrounds, and restrooms. We hope this event will be an informal time to fellowship and play together. Please feel free to bring balls, jump ropes, frisbees, outdoor games, etc. Please RSVP to Allison by July 13th.


Birthday Bash
August 9th 1:30-3:30pm, The Whisler’s Home
Join us as we celebrate a year of doing Bright Lights & all the summer birthdays of the girls in our group. We’ll be decorating cupcakes to eat and playing some of our favorite Bright Lights games (yes, there will be skits!). Moms are invited to join us from 3:00-3:30 as we talk about our plans for the next year of Bright Lights & provide an opportunity for everyone to sign up for the exciting year ahead. Please RSVP to Allison by August 6th.

Self Control 5/10/11

This evening we finished our last Bright Lights lesson for the year by finishing set three. To begin the evening, several of the girls had prepared music or scripture memorization to share with us. Thank you ladies for taking the time to share with us, it was a blessing! Unfortunately, we only got a picture of one of the performances.

Sara playing the clarinet

Our ongoing activity for the evening was a game that made everyone aware of how hard it is to control the tongue. Each girl was given two stickers & told not to say "I" at all during the evening. If anyone heard you saying the forbidden word they could take one of your stickers and put it on themselves. Whoever had the most stickers by the end of the night won. In the end, Heather was the winner. :)

Once the game was over, Sarah decided to collect the stickers on her face. ;)

We were able to take group pictures at this meeting and pretty much everyone was there so they turned out really well.

Silly Picture...

We also got a group picture with each of the small groups.

The Rebekah group, led by Karen & Haleigh...

The Mary group, led by Sylvia & Rachel...

The Esther group, led by Katelyn, Jessica & Jenny

It's been a great year, I look forward to seeing you all with your moms for our last meeting on May 24th at CBC!

At this meeting we celebrated the birthdays of Jenna, McKenzie & Kalei

Humility 4/26/11

This evening our meeting was on humility. The opposite of humility is pride. We show pride in our lives when we exaggerate, brag about accomplishments, condemn others, demonstrating stubbornness or rebellion, and many other ways. The world encourages us to stand up for ourselves and fight but Jesus tells us the opposite - we are to show humility and learn to put other before ourselves.

One area where we can show humility is in our relationships with our families. We must learn to have humility in order to quench quarrels and seek forgiveness.

The best way to gain an attitude of humility is to realize how sinful and small we are compared to our all-powerful, almighty God. A full understanding of His majesty should cause us to humble ourselves even more so that He might be made known through us.

We took some time to study some great men of the Bible and their various responses of humility when they were in the presence of the Lord.

After the lesson, we all gathered in the living room and I explained the instructions for our next activity - the humility test.

The girls worked in groups to complete a VERY tricky humility test. All of the answers to the test came from the Bible but the girls were not allowed to use their Bibles to complete this test.

The Bible verses they needed to answer the questions on the test were found on index cards. The only "problem" was, there was only one copy of each verse.

So, the teams had to trade cards in order to get all the necessary information to complete their tests. You had to be careful who you traded with because there were penalty cards that would delay your team or put you at a disadvantage.

I forgot to announce the winner at the end of our meeting so I'll post it here. It ended up being very close. Each team finished as follows:
1st place: Haleigh's team with 19 points
2nd place: Karen's team with 16 points
3rd place: Jessica's team with 15 points
4th place: Katelyn's team with 12 points
5th place: Sylvia's team with 9 points

Amber with the Rebekah group's beloved monkey. :)

After small groups, we took some group photos. Since we had quite a few girls missing this week, we're going to take them again at our next meeting. Whichever picture has the most girls present will be the winner. :)

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Silly photo! Click on the photo to see it larger.

During tea time the girls surprised me with some flowers, singing the birthday song, cards & two lovely posters for my birthday. I was very surprised and blessed by their thoughtfulness! Thank you ladies, you are a blessing!!!

A few more pictures of tea time...

Amber, Melissa, Martha & Abby

Sylvia, the Black's friend (sorry I forgot your name!), Sarah & McKenzie

Brooke & Katie

I will look forward to seeing everyone again on May 10th! Don't forget your Bible memory sheets!