Girls Retreat

The other female leaders and I hosted a retreat/sleepover for the girls in the high school youth group (Ignition).  We focused on the importance of knowing who are, seeing your true beauty, and being in community with one another.  One of the exercises we did was we had each of the girls fill out a life wheel.  They had to write one word in each piece of the circle.  We asked them to only include truths about themselves, we did not limit whether they had to be what people might consider positive or negative.  We just asked them to describe themselves in 32 words/phrases.  Once they were done we discussed as a group and then they with the help of their friends decorated their mirrors with statements of affirmation.  This was to symbolize that instead of allowing our own insecurities block out what we see that we must look at ourselves for who we are and use those truths and the positive things about ourselves as a frame of reference.  These truths are reminders of who we are and that what we see in the mirror is just one fraction of the person we are.  The leaders also completed the exercise and shared with the girls, here is a picture of my mirror and a few pictures of the girls from the retreat. 

1 Timothy 4:8
"For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come"