November Tasks - to be done cheerfully!

This is the month of Thanksgiving!! It’s the month where we give thanks to God for all He’s done for us, for all He’s provided.  This began when the first Christians who settled in America came from England, and depended on God to provide for them and give them a new home where they could worship God freely.  It was not easy, and everyone had to work together to survive that first year, but God blessed them abundantly.

If we want big blessings and a great life, we need to be willing to do at least 3 things.  If we don’t, God won’t be able to bless us with all that He wants to give us.  What are those 3 things?

• Be willing to work hard with a cheerful heart
• Depend on God to guide you
• Give all the thanks and glory to God when the blessings come

This month of November, let’s learn to do all 3 of those things.  These are your tasks:

Read the book, “Little House in the Big Woods,” by Laura Ingalls Wilder (you can find it in any library or bookstore) PROOF:  Meet with your Big Sis every week and talk about the book.


Notice how the family had to work hard, and everyone was a team.  Become a daughter in your house who is part of the family team.  Ask your mom or dad to choose 2 tasks for you this month to help the family work together well.  (For example, set the table for every family meal, rake the leaves in the yard a few times a week, fold laundry etc.)  Make sure that you do these tasks CHEERFULLY!!
PROOF: Take pictures and share them with your Big Sis, who will share them on our community

Pray every morning for your family, for your parents’ jobs and for your brothers and sisters to be blessed in school or work.  Ask God to lead your family to make the right choices.

Give thanks to God every evening before you go to bed, for every good thing that happened that day.

September Tasks

1. Pray for your teacher at school and the kids in your class every night before you go to bed.  Have your mom or dad anoint your head before you leave for school every morning to bless you.  Proof: tell your Big Sis about it and share with her any problems you may have at school so she can pray for you too.
2. Do something special for Kids Zone or PreTeen Force, depending on which group you belong to.  It can be donating special posters and decorations, or craft items like new crayons or construction paper, or snacks for your classes.  Proof:  Show it to your Big Sis and take a picture of what you’ve done to share in our community.
3. Do something fun with your friend like sister that was assigned to you last July.  Proof: Take pictures of you together and find out something new about her that you didn’t know that you can share with your Big Sis and in the next meeting. 
4. Read the story of Hannah in the Bible and be ready to talk about it in our meeting.

August Tasks - use your imaginations!!

Do something helpful every day of the month, but choose something different each day.  You can help your mom, your dad, your brothers and sisters, do something for the whole family, do something for your pastor or pastor’s wife, for your Kids Zone teacher or Big Sis, for a neighbor or a church member – it’s up to you to choose!  Proof: Write a journal with your list of what you did every day and who you did it for.

Learn to mix and match your clothes with different accessories!  Have fun with your imagination.  Choose 4 dresses or skirts and wear them twice to church throughout the month, but with a different look each time.  Wear one outfit on a Sunday, and another on a Wednesday.  Choose one of those to remake a third time for the final Wednesday of the month. You will have 9 different outfits with new looks for the whole month of August!  Proof: Show your Big Sis and take pictures to post on our blog and community.

Who is Miriam in the Bible?  Read about her, talk about her with your mom and write about the good things she did, and the mistakes she made too.  Proof: show what you have written to your Big Sis and bring the paper with you to our monthly meeting.

Upcoming Rush, only for girls who want to re-enter

Starting the first full week of August, is the new set of Rush Months for the Pre-Sisterhood.  Only this is not the ordinary Rush for new applicants, it’s for girls who once were a part of the group, but for some reason, were not able to continue.  If they want to rejoin us, they can do so only after these requirements are met:

They show an interest to rejoin, and their parent or guardian agrees.
The pastor’s wife of your church agrees that she is ready to try again.
They and their parent/guardian fills out and signs an application form and hands it in before the end of July.
They fulfill all the required tasks for the 3 months, not just barely, but well, using creativity and showing an enthusiasm for the group, and for the meaningfulness of each task.

Then you can hand them the printout of their tasks and they can get started on Sunday August 4th, and it will end, Sunday November 3rd.  You can meet with your PreSisterhood leader in your region during the week to determine which girls made it through.

Click here to find and download the Pre-Sisterhood Rush Task list.  Big Sis's, please find all applications in both Spanish and English on our Godllywood community page.  Enjoy!

Your Tasks for July

1. This month let’s learn to give our best to God.  As a member of Pre-Sisterhood, you should already be giving your tithes of allowance, gifts and anything you earn.  If you aren’t, you need to begin right away! 

But as important as your tithes are, your offerings to God are very precious to Him and open doors for you to be blessed.

Learn this month to be a GIVER.  Come to God’s house with something for Him in each service you attend.  If your Kids Zone teacher or Pre-Teen leader forgets to ask for offerings, be sure to give it anyway.  A heart that learns to be generous to God is one that can receive much more from His hands.  In the end, who is blessed?  God is, the work of God is, and you are too!  PROOF: Your Big Sister needs to see that you have given.

2. Your Big Sis will choose a Friend Like Sister for you this month.  Get to know her, invite her to do something fun with you this month, pray for her every day, and give her a special present from you in our next Pre-Sisterhood meeting.

Big Sis’s: please help by always having Kids Zone or Pre-Sisterhood envelopes available to give each meeting.  This isn’t a competition of how much they can give, so make sure they know that what they give is up to them and has to be from their heart. But even so, we want to motivate them to have a giving heart towards God.

Is PreSisterhood for the weak? No!!

Last Saturday we had our Pre-Sisterhood meeting in Houston and we talked quite a bit about the story of Jacob and Esau, and how Jacob's heart changed from a cheater to a man of faith.  His name changed to Israel - one who wrestles with God!

I asked our girls, "Is it right for you to wrestle with God?"  Most of them stared back at me and shook their heads, "No..." What a surprise to learn that the answer is YES!!  We need to be gentle, kind, gracious, loving and sensitive to other's needs, and at the same time, be bold and assertive in our prayers with God.  He loves bold faith!

Can we accept sadness and depression? No!

Can we be afraid of bad news?  No!

From Baby Sisters to big men of faith, God wants all of us to be strong in believing that we are safe in His hands, and that all evil is under our feet.  God was so happy and pleased when Jacob wrestled with Him.  Let's always be girls and women of faith who please God just like Jacob.

June tasks

Congratulations - school is out for summer!  What a wonderful time to have fun and grow.

Your special tasks for this month of June.  It may sound simple, but it will take some thinking, prayer and work!!

Bring at least 3 new kids to church this month, either girls or boys.  See if your mom or dad can agree to give them a ride to church to join in the Kids Zone, even if their parents don't want to come on their own. PROOF: Introduce them to your Big Sis and have her take a picture of the both of you.

Also, learn a new skill with your moms at home: some ideas could be to learn how to sew something simple, or to iron or to prepare a dish you never made before,  It could be any kind of skill from the house or the garden to doing something special on the computer, or learning how to do some sort of craft that your mother already knows and wants to teach you.  The skill will need to be something you've never learned, but is appropriate for your age. PROOF: take a picture as you are learning together with your mom and show it to your Big Sis.

Big Sis's, your tasks are to get the pictures and make sure you send them on to me so we can post them here.

Have a wonderful month of June.