September 2016

Coming Up

September

Sept 10 Mommy/Daughter Pottery

Sept 13 1st Troop Meeting

Sept 17 National Day of Service

Sept 20 Joining Award Class

Sept 27 Troop Meeting

Submit Summer Badge Orders Pay Fall Semester Dues

October

Oct 1 Daddy/Daughter Fishing Pen Pal Registration Begins

Oct 4 Campout Mtg @7 PM

Oct 11 Troop Meeting

Fundraiser ENDS Sign up for Campout

Oct 15 AHG TX1318 8th Birthday

Oct 17 Ministry Team Mtg @7 PM

Oct 25 Troop Meeting

Summer/Joining Awards Linus Blanket Service Project

Oct 28-30 Fall Family Campout

Oct 31 Pen Pal Registration Ends

A m e r i c a n H e r i t a g e G i r l s

Welcome We are looking forward to an exciting year with our AHG families. We’ll be painting pottery with our moms, fishing with our dads, camping, gaining lots of life skills through our badge work, and growing closer to Christ with our reli-gious awards and special events. We have 11 NEW families joining us this year! We are so glad to have you a part of our troop and we look forward to getting to know you.

Mommy/Daughter Event What: Mommy/Daughter Pottery Painting

Description: This special event will be a fun bonding experience for mothers and daughters. Each mom and daughter will be able to choose their own ceramics pieces to paint and will be able to spend time getting to know other girls and moms in our troop before we kick off the 2016-2017 program year.

Who: Moms and Registered AHG Girls Only

Date: Saturday, September 1 0, 201 6

Times: Session 1 : 9 AM to 1 1 AM

Session 2: 12:30 to 2:30 PM

Location: Nancy's Fancy's Ceramics (38023 Beyette Rd., Magnolia, TX 77355)

Cost: The troop is paying $1 0 per person toward the cost of the ceramics. The average cost of the ceramic pieces is around $15 (some are less and some are more). For our session, everyone will be encouraged to choose the $15 and under pieces due to time constraints. Tax is not included in the price marked on the ceramics. If your piece is over $10 after taxes, you will need to pay the difference at the end of the session.

Please RSVP through Troop Track by August 31st.

Joining Award Class The Pioneer and Patriots are hosting our Joining Award Class on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM and will be teaching the requirements need-ed to earn the Joining Award. The Joining Award must be earned before a girl is eligi-ble to earn badges. If your daughter is NEW to AHG and is a Tenderheart, Explorer, Pioneer, or Patri-ot, OR she just moved up to the Tenderheart Unit from the Pathfinder Unit last May, she will need to attend this special class. If you are unable to attend the class, there is a Joining Award Manual (JoiningAward.pdf) on Troop Track under Share | Troop Documents that will guide you through the process so that your daughter can complete the requirements at home.

National Day of Service

AHG celebrates its birthday by serving others. Every year on the third Saturday in September we have our National Day of Service. On Saturday, September 17th at 9 AM, we will be serving our Charter Organization by washing their windows and washing toys in

their nursery and preschool class-rooms. Join us and earn a patch and service hours. Don’t forget to bring cleaning supplies: Glass cleaner Paper towels or B/W newspaper Step stool Anti-bacterial wipes for cleaning toys Wear your Class B T-Shirt.

Mixed Bag Designs Fundraiser!! GOAL

We need to raise $5,000 for our troop. In order to reach that goal, each family needs to sell at least $170 worth of products. Mixed Bag Designs will give us 40% of each sale. This is our only way of raising funds for our troop as we do not receive any money from our Charter or AHG. If you chose not to participate in this fundraiser, you will need to pay the opt out fee of $90 per daughter (there is a $160 family cap).

PRIZES

Every girl has an opportunity to earn several prizes depending on how much she sells.

COLLECTING MONIES AND TURNING IN ORDERS

Buyers need to pay cash or a check made out to you (the seller), not the troop. Buyers pay sales tax (see chart). Each family will turn in one check made payable to AHG TX318 for the total product sales for your family. Order forms and monies need to be turned in OCTOBER 11, 2016 at our troop meeting. Make sure your daughter’s name is on the order form and on the Mixed Bag Designs envelope. Keep a copy of the order form for your records.

Meet Gia Deborah Medina Hidalgo Each year, we raise $500 to support Gia, our Compassion In-ternational Child. Gia is 15 years old and lives in Ecuador. Girls are encouraged to earn money for Gia. Parents, think of special chores your daughters can do to earn extra money to help support Gia. Girls can collect money earned in the Gia Banks that they will decorate during the first troop meeting. Remember to bring your $$ for Gia to our troop meetings and place it in the red bucket during our opening flag ceremony!

Daddy/Daughter Fishing Event Dads and daughters will have fun morning and afternoon learn-ing fishing tips from Park Ranger Hannah Buschert, meeting other AHG dads and daughters, and picnicking at Sheldon Lake State Park. Who: Dads and Registered AHG Girls Only When: Saturday, October 1, 2016 Time: 1 0 AM—11 AM Fishing Lesson 11 AM—? Eating Lunch and Fishing on Your Own

Location: Sheldon Lake State Park 14140 Garrett Road Houston, Texas 77044 www.tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/sheldon-lake What to Bring: Fishing Poles, Gear and Bait (NOTE: The state park only has a few poles to lend out.), Picnic lunch/snacks/water Hat Bug spray Sunscreen Camera Additional Details: The troop will provide water bottles for the group. Please RSVP through Troop Track so that we can plan accordingly.

Fall Family Camp Out

October 28—30, 2016

$45 per campsite

We are headed to Lake Livingston State Park for our Fall Family Camp out. To learn more about the campout, plan to attend the Campout Meeting on October 4th at 7 PM in the portable building. Sign up for the campsites starts October 11th. Limited spaces are available! See Andrea Balfour to sign up and watch your email for more information.

Want an AHG Pen Pal?

AHG National Pen Pal Program is a way for our girls to get to know oth-er girls from another part of our country. Registration each year is from October 1st-31st. Pen Pal matches are sent out by the end of December so you can write for one full calendar year! To register, please visit www.americanheritagegirls.org/penpal. The Pen Pal Program cost $6 and this includes an activity patch that you place on the back of your vest or slash. You will pay AHG directly for this program when you go online to register.

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NEW Troop Spirit Wear T-Shirt

The Pioneers and Patriots will be designing

our Spirit wear T-Shirt. The whole troop will be voting for their favorite design

in September.

Class B T-Shirts The blue Class B T-Shirt shown is the official AHG uniform worn in situations when completing messy badge work or service projects could soil or damage the full AHG dress uniform. The AHG full dress uniform should be worn for all AHG activities un-less the Class B T-Shirt or another dress code has been specified by Troop Leadership for a particular event.

Class B and Troop Spirit Wear T-Shirts

The Troop will be providing your daughter with two FREE T-Shirts this year: the Class B T-Shirt and the Troop Spirit Wear T-Shirt. Turn in your daughter’s T-Shirt size starting at the Parent Meeting on August 30, 2016.

Linus Project Blankets: During our October 25th troop meeting, we will be making no-sew fleece blankets for hospitalized children. Start looking for sales now on fleece at JoAnn’s Fabric and Hobby Lobby. We will need 20+ donations of 1 1/2 yards of fleece for this service project.

National Honor Troop Award The National Honor Troop Award (NHTA) is a Troop Recognition Award that: Identifies Troops of excellence based on AHG’s Global Ends, Mission and Vision Promotes continuous growth and improvement Remains an attainable goal There are three levels: Ruby, Sapphire, and Diamond. In the 2014-2015 program year, AHG TX1318 received the second-level of the National Honor Troop Award, which is the Sapphire Award. For the 2016-2017 program year, we are striving to earn the highest level, which is the Diamond Award. The AHG TX1318 Ministry Team has planned a full, well-rounded program for the year with this goal in mind. We are well on our way to achieving this goal, but we need your help. If your daughter is eligi-ble to earn her Religious Award this year, please prayerfully consider signing up for a class (sign-ups will be available at the Religious Award BASH) or helping her earn this award with you at home. Partnering with a few friends and trading off on the counselor role for the week is also another easy way to accomplish this goal and help your daughter grow closer to Christ and other believers by studying God’s Word and talking through the exercises in the workbook together. We did not qualify for Honor Troop in 2015-2016 because there were too many girls lacking their Religious Awards. We are hoping that with your help, we can all work together to encourage the girls to commit to earning their Religious Awards for this year!

Religious Recognition Program AHG offers a religious recognition program for girls (1st - 12th grade) that helps them grow stronger in the Lord. We are planning to have a fun BASH to talk about the awards and complete a project activity for each level of the Religious Award Program to kick-off the start of the program. Details will be distributed through Troop Track as soon as they are finalized.

For every girl that attends, she will have the opportunity to earn a “Love God” PRAY patch. The PRAY patch is a set of 4 different patches that forms a puzzle and she can earn a new segment each year. The patch will cost $3.25.

In preparation, the girls can start memorizing Mark 12:29-31 now: The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the

Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.

Tenderhearts only need to memorize Mark 1 2:30: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

If your daughter earned her Religious Award last year, then she al-ready qualifies to earn the next segment in her “Love God” Puzzle Patch.