How to Get Started

Change the lives of girls in your community—all it takes is one woman and one girl.

Girls Clubs are a top-quality discipleship program for girls. It teaches your girls the stuff you want them to know. Things like godly character, life skills, and Bible knowledge. Plus, it gives girls a one-of-a-kind opportunity to be mentored by mature women in the faith.

Relevant and Fun

Girls Clubs are relevant and fun

Looking for programs that seamlessly weave fun and biblical training together?

Then Girls Clubs are for your church.

Adventures, activities, and games show girls how fun discovering God’s Word is!
Lessons teach girls valuable life skills—everything from sportsmanship and integrity, to cooking and outreach.
Girls learn how to choose actions, attitudes, and behaviors that please God.
Girls come across difficult decisions in their growing up years. By intentionally fostering relationships between girls and their leaders, Girls Clubs create a safe environment for girls to discuss issues they face and get godly counsel.

Most important, Girls Clubs share with each girl that God loves her and wants to have a relationship with her.

Fast Facts

Age levels offer a variety of units, so leaders can choose which ones best fit the interests and needs of their girls.

Units can be completed in four weeks, which means visitors are never more than a few lessons away from finishing a unit with the other girls.

Girls who go through Girls Clubs have the potential to learn 242 Scripture verses.

In the 3rd–5th grade age level, girls begin a regular Bible reading routine and read the New Testament.

In the middle school and senior high age levels, girls read the entire Bible.

Girls Clubs are flexible. Meet during a midweek service, Sunday morning, or Sunday evening. Plus, the older clubs also work great as small groups that meet on a different evening than youth group.

Start Up Essentials

Recruit and Train

Get started with the Leader Training Guide. Everything you need to know is in here—details on club levels, tips for being an effective leader, the steps for building a program, and much more. This all-in-one training and reference book is also the tool you’ll use to train leaders. When you’re recruiting leaders, put their minds at ease by telling them you’ll provide the tools to make them fantastic leaders. Sponsors can complete the course by correspondence or in a group training session. Contact your district Girls Ministries coordinator for training information
Prepare

The foundation for Girls Clubs meetings is the Sponsor Guides and Activity Pagesfor each level. The Sponsor Guide has everything a leader needs to disciple girls through the entire year of curriculum. Everything from lesson plans for every unit, sample activity pages, reproducible resources, and club information.

Every girl will need the appropriate club-level Activity Pages or Journal Pages. Every unit has its own set of Activity Pages, and they are available individually. That means you can pick and choose which units best fit your girls. Activity Pages are full-color and drive home the point of the lesson. For the older clubs, Friends and Girls Only, lessons are taught through Journal Pages, which are also available individually. They help girls get to the heart of how the lesson applies to their lives. We also recommend Intro Pages for each girl in Friends and Girls Only. These pages provide a prayer journal, Bible reading journal, undated calendar, and address book.
Have fun!

Gather the girls and leaders, and have a blast getting to know each other. This program teaches solid, Bible-grounded principles, and it also helps develop relationships between everybody involved. Enjoy every part of the discipling process!

Before Your First Meeting

Plan the Time and Place for Meetings
Select a place for club meetings. Usually a room at the church is best. Decide on the time and frequency of meetings that fit your situation. Friends and Girls Only clubs should not conflict with youth-group meetings. These two clubs can hold their meetings on a different night, Saturday morning, or after school.

Plan Financing
Establish a treasury as soon as the club is organized. Funds may be raised in various ways, including regular club offerings, a subsidy from the church, a Women’s Ministries group, or fundraisers. Some clubs charge membership dues. (Girls should not be excluded from attending if they cannot give.) Each club should send a tenth of all money it receives to its district Women’s Ministries/Girls Ministries (District Map) office to help with district administrative costs.

Publicize

Announce Girls Clubs meetings in church, Sunday school, children’s church, vacation Bible school, and youth group.
Put announcements on bulletin boards, and in newspapers, and church bulletins.
Send postcards to prospective members.
Personally invite girls to Girls Clubs.

Plan an Introductory Meeting
Invite parents and girls to a get-acquainted meeting. Introduce sponsors and display samples of the activity books or journals, uniforms, and unit awards (badges, charms, pins).

Apply for Charter
Girls Ministries Charter certificate and cards. Prior to your first club meetings, apply for each club’s official charter according to your district’s policy.

You will receive charter certificates and individual membership cards.

Frame and display the certificate in your clubrooms. The certificate will remind the girls in each club that they are part of a national and international organization.

Club Descriptions

Rainbows: The Noah’s Zoo Club
Rainbows products (Preschool boys & girls)
Rainbows launches little hearts into the exciting journey of discovering God and His great love. Noah’s Ark is the interactive setting for Bible stories, crafts, full-color activity pages, and games. Great supplements are also available: Noah and Mrs. Noah glove puppets, as well as adorable animal finger puppets. Combine those puppets with An Arkful of Puppet Skits, and you’ll have kids captured in wide-eyed wonder.

Daisies: The Sonshine Club
Daisies products (Kindergarten girls)
Girls lay a foundation for godly character with lessons on everything from believing to giving, and obeying to trusting. They’ll meet Darcy, Diana, and Dorie (three paper dolls who guide them through Bible stories and help apply the Bible’s principles to life). Dorie is hearing impaired, so girls get to learn memory verses with sign language.

Prims: The Discovery Club
Prims products (1st & 2nd grade girls)
Prims uses girls’ natural curiosity to teach Bible truths about healing, salvation, friendship, and much more! Megan, Carmen, Kim, and Tonya, plus one loveable pup, guide Prims through life-application stories. Prims and leaders also love the optional Discovery Box. It holds items that introduce the lesson concept—making learning even more fun!

Stars: The Fun Club
Stars products (3rd–5th grade girls)
Stars teaches girls how to become active participants in their own spiritual development. They explore Christian doctrine, missions, the armor of God, personal evangelism and much more. Stars Club helps girls begin a Bible reading program, and a flashcard memory pack helps make Scripture memorization easy. Projects give girls opportunities to live out what they learn.

Friends: The Where You Belong Club
Friends products (6th–8th grade girls)
Discussion-oriented lessons help girls make godly decisions about issues they face. Plus, the incorporated Bible reading teaches girls to search God’s Word for answers to life questions. Girls love earning unit necklace charms and using their Journal for its unit pages, notes, calendar, Bible reading guide, and prayer journal.

Girls Only: The G.O. Club
Girls Only products (9th–12th grade girls)
This small group program offers girls a safe place to share their struggles, fears, and hopes with other girls. Designed to be on a different night than youth group, Girls Only can meet weekly, monthly, or anytime in between. Studies deal with gritty, real-life issues so that girls are armed with God’s truth as they face the world head-on.

Questions

Do we need to start with every club?

No. Start with the clubs that match your kids’ ages.

Rainbows—Preschool boys and girls
Daisies—Kindergarten girls
Prims—1st and 2nd grade girls
Stars—3rd through 5th grade girls
Friends—6th through 8th grade girls
Girls Only—High school girls

Questions and Answers Tip: If you have a lot of younger girls, start with Rainbows and Prims. Add the older clubs as your girls reach the age level.

Can we do the program effectively if we only have a few girls in each age group?

Yes. If you need to, just combine the clubs to fit the needs of your church and girls. Here are a couple ideas to get you started.

Separate into 3 groups
Rainbows and Daisies
Prims and Stars
Friends and Girls Only

Separate into 4 groups
Rainbows
Daisies and Prims
Stars and Friends
Girls Only

Tip: If your total number of girls is fairly small, bring them all together for activities, crafts, and games. Then break into small groups for lesson time.

Does the program work if you only have a few volunteers to go around?

Yes. The same leader can do two clubs if you put them in the same room. One age-group can be doing activities on one side while she teaches the lesson for the other club!

Tip: Recruit the older girls, like Friends and Girls Only age, to help in the other clubs. They can help younger girls with memory verses and projects, and then do their own Bible reading and journals. A lot of churches have discovered this is a great opportunity for older girls to learn how to mentor and disciple others.

Does the program allow for uniforms?

Yes. There are a lot of options regarding uniforms. The first decision to make is whether or not you want to use uniforms. If you opt for uniforms, you can choose a formal uniform (a jumper) or a casual uniform (matching T-shirts).

Tip: Some churches use the program vest for the Rainbows age children and a sash over everyday clothes for other clubs.

How can we see the curriculum format?

Order Supplies

Visit our online store for easy access to all of our official Girls Clubs products.

Every sponsor will need:

the appropriate club-level Sponsor Guide
a subscription to Leader's Connection

Suggested training:

Leader Training Guide
Leadership Development Units: Bronze Level , which includes Special Needs or Disabilities, The Dynamics of Mentoring, and Understanding Learning Styles
Leadership Development Units: Silver Level , which includes Blending the Generations, The World in Your Clubroom, and Your Girls Ministries Model
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Every girl will need:

the appropriate club-level Activity Book or Journal

Every visitor can receive:

Unit Activity Page or Journal Pages
Evaluate your club’s needs and order uniforms, posters, and other Girls Clubs supplies as desired.

Missionettes Catalog Girls Ministries Catalog For a free, current Girls Ministries catalog, call Gospel Publishing House at 1-800-641-4310.