Girl Scouts and Faith
My Promise, My Faith Pin
Everything in Girl Scouting is based on the Girl Scout Promise and
Law. The Girl Scout Law includes many of the principles and values
common to most faiths.
Thus, while a secular organization, Girl Scouts has, since the
movement began, encouraged girls to take spiritual journeys via
their faiths' religious recognitions.
Girls of all grade levels can now earn the My Promise, My Faith pin
developed by Girl Scouts of the USA. This pin, which girls can earn
once a year, complements existing religious recognitions and
allows all girls to further strengthen the connection between their
faith and Girl Scouts.
A girl earns the My Promise, My Faith pin by carefully examining
the Girl Scout Law and directly tying it to tenets of her faith.
The Girl Scout Law
I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.
Pilot Program – Service Unit response
to Scout Sunday Celebration
supported by the local Catholic
Diocese
Estero Pines Girl Scouts
California’s Central Coast
“My Promise, My Faith”
Workshop
What does Girl Scouting and
your faith have in common?
Welcome!
Opening Blessing Prayer
Flag Ceremony
Pledge of Allegiance
Song - Patriotic
Girl Scout Promise
(Candle Lighting Ceremony)
Girl Scout Law
Song – “On My Honor”
Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Station 4
Station 5
Clean-up
Closing
Song – “Girl Scouts Together”
& “Take the Word of God”
Station 1
Station 3
Choose one line from the Girl Scout
Law.
Gather three inspirational quotes
that fit with the line of the Law.
Find a story, song, or poem with same
ideas.
Put them where you can see them
every day
Talk about what the line of the Law
and the story, song, or poem have in
common.
Station 5
Station 2
Find an adult in the faith community.
Ask how they try to use the line of
the Law in their life.
Station 4
Make something to remind you of
what you’ve learned.
Keep the connection strong!
Talk with your friends, family, and a
group in your faith in community about
what you’ve learned.
Ask them to help you live the Law and
your Faith.
Did you find what Girl Scouting and your
faith have in common?
New Christian faith Based
My Promise, My Faith Idea for
GSCCC - Choose a Path!
*Creation Path
*Sisters in Christ Path
*Christian Leadership Path
*Faith and Works Path
*Interfaith Path/Sharing your Faith Path
*Discipleship Path
Creation Path
What this path explores…
• God as Creator, what is means that God Created, and our natural posture as
creatures within, among, and as creation.
• Being a New Creation in Christ
• Understand that creation is not synonymous with nature
• Caring for creation/ the environment and why
• Being a good steward of money, time, each other
• Approaching life as a gift because all is created
• How being a girl scout can help with the environment and these other topics
• Being creative yourself, because you were created as a creature to be creative
• Why being both Girl Scout and a Christian gives all girls the opportunity to care for
creation.
 considerate and caring
 responsible for what I say and do
 use resources wisely
 make the world a better place
“The care of the Earth is our
most ancient and most worthy,
and after all our most pleasing
responsibility. To cherish what
remains of it and to foster its
renewal is our only hope.”
― Wendell Berry
Why we should care for the earth…
…As Christians, caring for the earth extends beyond beach clean
up days and planting a tree here or there. Caring for the earth is
caring for creation, what God created out of His love for us.
Caring for creation does not just mean caring for nature. Creation
care includes loving, rejoicing in, giving thanksgiving to, and
being good stewards of all that exists. All creatures deserve our
love and care, and therefore creation care includes loving all
creatures- humans and animals. This is our calling as Christians,
and as Girl Scouts we are given the opportunity to do just this!
We read this in the Girl Scout Law, and we can read this theme
throughout all of Scripture- Creation care is not only our
responsibility and gift- it is a theological mandate.
Theology…
God in God’s self is infinite, eternal, holy,
and perfect. God did not have to create but
out of love God created. All of God’s
creation, including us, are creatures. And it
is in Christ that we can become a new
creation.
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away; the new has
come.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
Sisters In Christ Path
What this path explores…
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What it means to be a sister in Christ
What is means to serve and love each other
What Jesus says about this
What friendship and teamwork means
How being a girl scout implements these ideas and
can help build and develop relationships that are
founded and centered in Christ
• Explores other’s faith
• What Bible says about this all
Christian Leadership Path
What this Path explores:
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Girls leaders in the church, Bible, and the world
How being a Girl Scout helps with each of these things
What the Bible has about women
How you can be a leader in the church and the world
How to lead each other
What the Bible says about this all
Faith and Works Path
What this Path explores:
• How being both a Christian and a Girl Scout means
that you care about others and social justice issues
• How to learn more about and serve in organizations
• Understand how and why Jesus cared about these issues
• Developing and exploring your role as a follower of Christ
• Understanding the necessary relationship
between both faith and works
• What Bible says about this all
• Understanding why this matters being both a Christian and a girl scout
Inter-Faith Dialogue/Sharing your faith path
What this path explores:
• What the Bible shows us/ tells us how to approach this
• Helps girls learn to experience and approach girls in conversation
with girls of similar and different faiths
• Learn about their faith in light of others
• Develop a broader worldview and more diverse cultural perspective with
empathy, humility, and compassion. Learning to ask questions and listen
• Gives girls both an opportunity to learn more about their own fait and others,
as well as listen to others about their faith and ultimately to share their own.
Discipleship Path
What this Path Explores…
• See what Bible says about this
• Girls will have the opportunity to learn the importance of discipleship
both being a disciple and also being disciple
• Girls will learn about older women’s faith and have an opportunity
to share their own
• Girls can see how being a girl scout is a great avenue to be in a position
to learn how to be s good leader and disciple for younger girls
• Disciple a girl or have leader disciple you/small group
Troop Meeting Outline
Pre-meeting early bird activity: A simple art, craft or activity
Opening: Promise and Law, may include a song, game or poem
Business: Dues, attendance, kapers; discussion of old, on-going or new
issues; planning and making choices for future girl scout troop meetings.
Major Activity: Learning in an active, hands-on, cooperative, girl-led way
and having FUN!
Clean Up: A Girl scout always leaves a place better than she found it! Use
a kaper chart to divide up “troop chores.”
Workshop One
Every girl should find a hymn, psalm, prayer, or reading from their faith from the
following available resources.
(The girls are responsible for bringing at least one of the following in, and the leader
has freedom and opportunity to bring in as much as possible)
Computer, Book, Songbook/ Music brought in, Bible, Bible Commentary, Prayer
Book, Environmental Book (you can choose a Christian author)
i.e.) Wendell Berry, Normal Wirzba, Ellen Davis etc.
Workshop Two
Girls should bring in a woman to the Gathering, or all girls should organize a trip to
go to a garden or something to talk to a woman who is a Christian and is a
gardener or a local farmer who is a Christian. The goal is for the girls to creatively
think of and find a faithful woman who is actively involved in some form of creation
care. This does not just means plants…it can mean caring for all creatures,
animals and people included, they are creatures too! 
Workshop Three
Find three inspirational quotes by women that fit with that line of the Girl Scout
Law. Put them somewhere you can see them every day to remind you to live that
line of the Law.
-Girls can do this during the meeting. They can explore internet, book, magazine,
or Bible stories.
-The girls can create posters or plant a flower or something that reminds them of
what they learned.
-The girls can design bracelets or write the quotes on paper and frame them and
put them in their room.
-This is also an opportunity for girls to create something for others to be reminded
of the importance of caring for creation, therefore it can be created for a Sunday
School room or church or be accessible to the larger community.
-The girls can paint a mural that advocates for creation care and being good
stewards of the earth.
-Girls can plant a little garden at their church or in the community.
Workshop Four
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Make something, like a drawing, painting, or poster that reminds
you of what you’ve learned. You could also write a story or develop
and perform a skit.
Workshop Five
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Make a commitment to live what you’ve learned. You may want to talk to your
friends, family, or a group in your faith community about how you plan to live
what you’ve learned in your daily life. Maybe you’d enjoy showing them what
you just made or performing your skit! You can also choose to make a private
commitment to yourself.
Be involved with organization…or community garden, or plant something…do
cleanup etc.
A walk or hike or something in nature…maybe even something with animals.
“The work of today is the history of
tomorrow, and we are the makers.”
Juliette Gordon Low