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The AHG Mission Statement:
"Building women of integrity through service to God, family, community, and country."
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This is a place for those involved with or interested in AHG to provide and share information.
The AHG Oath
"I promise to love God, cherish my family, honor my country, and serve in my community."
The AHG Creed
As an American Heritage Girl, I will be:
Compassionate
Helpful
Honest
Loyal
Perseverant
Pure
Resourceful
Respectful
Responsible
Reverent
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American Heritage Girls in the News
American Heritage: God Is Not Optional
When you daughter takes the Girl Scout Promise, should "God" be an option?
The word "God" in the Girl Scout Promise has been optional for over a decade.
Contrast that with the American Heritage Girls Oath: "I promise to love God, Cherish my family, Honor my country, and Serve in my community."
The promise is iron-clad.
The need for an alternative organization to the Girl Scouts of the USA is becoming clearer to more and more Christian families since the revelation [in 2004] that a local Girl Scout Council in Waco, Texas had forged a working partnership with a local Planned Parenthood organization....
(From the Washington Dispatch)
Godly Girl Group
Within the last five years, thousands of girls have defected from [Girl Scout] troops--exchanging their brown and green outfits for the more patriotic red, white and blue uniforms of the American Heritage Girls.
Billing itself as a "Christ-bsed" scouting alternative for girls 5 to 18m AHG was birthed from a kitchen-table discussion among a few Christian moms in West Chester, Ohion, who wanted their daughters to have wholesome outdoor adventures intermixed with biblical lessons.
In 1995 they launched their program with just 100 girls and 10 troops. But thanks to the Girl Scouts' lefward drift, in recent months AHG has exploded into a nationwide movement. At press time, it had at least 5,000 members, forming more than 150 troops across 32 states...
(From Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine
These are just snippets from a couple of articles about AHG. These articles in their entirety and many more articles can be viewed here. |
Posted: 8:10 PM, May. 5, 2006 |
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