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His Story Board InstructionsChoose Truth 2015-16 Annual Theme

His Story Board Instructions

IndexSeptember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1October . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8January . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

September: Photo Board

Supplies: The Choose Truth His Story Board Sign (print from gemsgc.org), an index card for each girl and markers, a stationary or portable bulletin board or wall that papers can be adhered to, Christmas lights, a camera

Preparation: Hang the Christmas lights around the His Story Board and have them plugged in when girls arrive

Pictures: Slide 2 of His Story Board PP.pptx (download from gemsgc.org)

Activity: Girls should write their name on an index card and adhere it to the wall Then take individual pictures of the girls and counselors! Print the pics and

replace the index card with their pic. If new girls join throughout the year, take their pictures too. Your wall should contain individual pictures of all girls and counselors


October: Stick Scripture in Your Heart

Supplies: Stick Scripture in Your Heart Label (page 2 in this document), 3 cans/jars, Stick Scripture in Your Heart Memory Verse Sheet (page 3 in this document), and a Bible. You will need one wide craft stick, marker, and sticky candy (hard candy or lollypops) for each girl

Preparation: Attach the Promise Label to one can/jar and put wide craft sticks in it In the second can/jar put markers In the third can/jar put hard candy/lollypops Print the Stick Scripture in Your Heart Memory Verse Sheet Set the jars, Bible, and Memory Verse Sheet near the His Story Board


Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive and have them choose a Scripture verse

from the Stick Scripture in Your Heart Memory Verse Sheet that they will memorize this week. (They can look in the Bible if they want to choose a different verse or look up the verses listed.)

Girls should write the address on the craft stick and take the stick with them.

Girls should take one sticky candy to remind them to stick the verse in their hearts!


Stick Scripture in Your Heart Memory Verse Sheet:

1. Choose a verse you will memorize this week.2. Write the verse address on a craft stick and take it with you.3. Take one sticky candy to remind you to stick the verse in your heart.

Bible Verse Address What’s it about?Genesis 1:1 God is Creator of AllEphesians 4:29 Our wordsMicah 6:8 About bullyingPsalm 23:1 Our possessionsMatthew 22:37-39 Who we should love1 Timothy 4:12 Being a leaderPsalm 139:1 God knows youJohn 3:16 Jesus saves youGenesis 16:13 God watches over youJohn 14:6 God makes a wayPsalm 139:14 Your bodyJames 1:19 Anger2 Samuel 22:47 God is your RockPsalm 24:2 Our worldPsalm 27:14 Wait for GodPsalm 33:11 God’s forever plans for youPsalm 36:5 God loves youPsalm 39:7 God is your hopePsalm 46:1 God is your mighty fortressPsalm 51:10 Clean heartsPsalm 77:12 God’s mighty deedsPsalm 100:4 Be thankfulPsalm 126:3 Filled with joyPsalm 119:105 God’s WordMatthew 5:16 Shine brightlyMatthew 23:11-12 Be greatLuke 6:31 How to treat others


November: Pick a Promise Jar

Note: This activity ties in well to November Lessons in Sparkle and SHINE brightly.

Supplies: Pick a Promise Label (page 4 in this document), a glass jar, Bible Promises Sheet (pages 5-7 in this document), colored or patterned copy paper

Preparation: Attach the Promise Label to the jar Print the Promise Sheet on colored or on the back side of patterned copy

paper (you will need one promise per girl in your club) Fold the promises compact, accordion style and place in jar Set the jar near the His Story Board


Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive and have them pick a promise from the jar Tell girls to greet other girls as they arrive. They should share the

promise they picked with at least two other girls


Pick a Promise Sheet:

God’s promise: God will stick close to you when you are sad.The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

God’s promise: You need not fear. God is near!The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? Psalm 118:6

God’s promise: Jesus will always be there for you!Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

God’s promise: God hears your prayers!Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Luke 11:9

God’s promise: God will give you strength!I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13

God’s promise: God will forgive you! If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

God’s promise: He cares about you!Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

God’s promise: God listens to you!I cry aloud to the Lord; I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. Psalm 142:1

God’s promise: You can talk to God about anything! Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6

God’s promise: God’s timing is good!And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?


God’s promise: Nothing can separate you from Him! Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39

God’s promise: Nothing is too hard for God! Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” Mark 10:27

God’s promise: Jesus understands you! Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:4

God’s promise: God forgives you!As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12

God’s promise: God cares about you! Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26

God’s promise: God’s help is near!Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1

God’s promise: You can be bold when you talk to God! Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16

God’s promise: God is crazy about you!And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:30

God’s promise: Jesus will never leave you!Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. Hebrews 13:5

God’s promise: You do not need to panic! I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33

God’s promise: God will take care of you!Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this. Psalm 37:5


God’s promise: You belong to God’s family forever! See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1

God’s promise: You have God’s great power in you! You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 1 John 4:4

God’s promise: You are His friend! I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends. John 15:15

God’s promise: God will give you hope and courage!Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 31:24

God’s promise: God comes near you!Come near to God and he will come near to you. James 4:8

God’s promise: God will give you what you need when you need it!My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9

God’s promise: God is for you!What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31

God’s promise: God knows you by name!See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Isaiah 49:16

God’s promise: God is doing a good work in you! (And He’s not finished yet!)He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil 1:6

God’s promise: God will always take care of you! Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. Isa 46:4

God’s promise: God helps you everyday!Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Psalm 68:19


December: Books of the Bible Chain

Supplies: Books of the Bible Chain Links (download from gemsgc.org), 7 pink (or red) sheets and 7 green sheets of copy paper, (or you can use construction paper and write the books of the Bible by hand on each chain link), a glue stick or tape, and a Bible

Preparation: Prepare the 66 chain links by printing the Books of the Bible Chain

document on pink (or red) and green paper (go every other sheet) or cutting construction paper and handwriting each book of the Bible on one link

Set the chain links and Bible near the His Story Board


Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive and have them pick the book of the Bible

that goes next in the chain link. The first girl needs to find the book of Genesis, the second girl Exodus, and so on.

If you know the approximate number of girls that come to club, divide that number by 66. As best as possible have the chain completed by the time all girls arrive.

Keep the Bible open to the contents page in case girls struggle to know what book comes next!

Hang the completed chain near the His Story Board


January: Pray Scripture

Supplies: Pray Scripture label (page 9 in this document), a recipe box (or a similar size box), Scripture Prayer Sheet (pages 10- 12 in this document), print on cardstock

Preparation: Attach the Pray Scripture Label to the box Print the Scripture Prayers on cardstock and cut (you will need one

prayer per girl in your club) Place cards in box Set the box near the His Story Board

Picture: Slide 6 of His Story Board PP.pptx (download from gemsgc.org)

Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive and have them pick a prayer from the jar Tell girls to greet other girls as they arrive. They should pray this prayer

aloud with at least two other girls (personalizing their names!)


Dear God, Thank You that You made ____________ and will carry ______________. No matter _____________’s age or wherever _________________ goes, You will take care of ___________. Thank You, God! In Jesus’ name, amen. (Is 46:4)

Dear God, You are ___________________’s Rock, Fortress, and Deliverer. Teach _______________ to take refuge in You whenever ________ is worried or afraid. Thank You that You are _______________’s Protector, Rescuer, and Strength. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 18:2)

Dear God, Thank You for Your crazy love for _____________. She is precious in Your sight! Show _____ Your love today. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Isa 43:4)

Dear God, You are ______________’s Teacher. Show _________ the way he/she should go. Remind _____________ that Your loving eye is on him/her. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 32:8)

Dear God, Thank You that You love _______________________. Show ___________ Your great love which reaches higher than the heavens! Thank You for Your faithfulness to ___________________. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 108:4)

Dear God, Thank You for always being near ____________. Show _____________ the paths You want ____________ to walk. Fill ____________ with joy in Your presence. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Acts 2:28)

Dear God, Thank You that You know the desires ________________ has in his/her heart. Encourage ____________ as he/she waits on You. Thank You for listening to _____________’s prayers. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 10:17)

Dear God, Your Word is a lamp to _______________’s feet and a light for _____________’s path. As __________ reads Your Word, show him/her Christ and help ________ walk in His light! In Jesus’ name, amen. (Ps 119:105)

Dear God, Thank You that ______________ can talk to You about anything! As ____________ does, give him/her a thankful heart and Your peace. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Phil 4:6-7)

Dear God, You gave ______ a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. Remind _________ that You will give him/her all she needs to honor and serve You. In Jesus’ name, amen. (2 Timothy 1:7)


Dear God, You are _______________’s refuge and strength. You are _____________’s ever-present help in trouble. Keep these promises in ____________’s head and heart today! In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 46:1)

Dear God, Thank You that ____________ belongs to You! Encourage and equip _______________ today to go tell others about Your love. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Matthew 9:38)

Dear God, May every word _____________ speaks and every thought ____________ thinks be pleasing in Your sight, O Lord, ____________’s Rock and Redeemer. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 19:14)

Dear God, Thank You for Your love for __________. Teach ____________ to show his/her love to You and others by being quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. In Jesus’ name, amen. (James 1:19)

Dear God, You love ______________! As ____________ serves You give him/her energy and strength. May the love You have for ___________ flow through

him/her to others today. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Romans 12:11)

Dear God, Thank You that You are ___________’s Helper. You are within ____________. You will help _______ at the break of day! We praise You for Your kindness! In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 46:5)

Dear God, You are _____________’s hiding place. You will protect ____________ from trouble and surround _____________ with songs of deliverance. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Psalm 32:7)

Dear God, Thank You that no matter what ____________ has said, done, or thought, You will forgive ______. When he/she confesses this to You, remind ______ that as far as the east is from the west, so far have You removed his/her sin. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Ps 103:12)

Dear God, Thank You for loving _________ and sending Your Son to this world just for ______. Open ________’s eyes to see Your love and care today. In Jesus’ name, amen. (1 John 4:10)

Dear God, You are a God of love! Today help ____________ grasp how wide and long and high and deep is Jesus’ love for ____________. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Ephesians 3:18)


Dear God, Thank You for being a God of comfort and compassion. If ___________ is sad or discouraged today, comfort _________ in his/her trouble. Draw near and give ________ peace. In Jesus’ name, amen. (2 Cor 1:3-4)

Dear God, You chose _____________ to be Your dearly loved child. Remind ____________ who he/she is! Clothe _______ with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Colossians 3:12)

Dear God, You are ________’s strength when ___________ feels weak. Remind _________ that he/she can do everything through You who gives ______ strength. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Phil 4:13)

Dear God, Thank You for the plans You have for __________________. As ______________ thinks about tomorrow fill _________ with hope and joy! In Jesus’ name, amen. (Jeremiah 29:11)

Dear God, Thank You that You care about everything going on in __________’s life. Fill __________ with joy and peace as _______ trusts in You, so that ___________ may overflow with

hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Romans 15:13)

Dear God, Thank You that Jesus laid down His life for ____________. As ___________ does the same for others, teach ________ to love with his/her words, actions, and heart. In Jesus’ name, amen. (1 John 3:16, 18)

Dear God, As You carry ___________, give ___________ the strength and wisdom to carry the burdens of others. May they see the love of Jesus in ____________. In His name, amen. (Galatians 6:2)

Dear God, Thank You for the gifts You have given ____________. Whether it is encouraging, helping, giving, leading, or loving, give _____________ the strength to serve with joy. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Romans 12:7-9)

Dear God, Please encourage ___________ with Your Word, Spirit, and the people You have placed in __________’s life. And teach ________ to encourage others and build them up. In Jesus’ name, amen. (1 Thessalonians 5:11)

Dear God, Thank You that You are always near ________. When ________ is heartbroken or crushed with disappointed, give a special reminder


to ________ of Your love and presence. In Jesus’ name, amen. (Ps 34:18)


February: God’s Love

Supplies: God’s Love sign (page 14 in this document), chocolate or candy hearts or Hershey’s® kisses (one per every girl/counselor)

Preparation: Place the God’s Love sign in the middle of a table Around the sign place the chocolate or candy hearts in the shape of a

heart Set the table near the His Story Board


Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive Girls should follow the instructions on the God’s Love sign


God’s Word reveals His radical love and rescue plan for rebels!

1. Pick one piece of candy.2. Tell a girl or counselor one way that you saw

God’s love today in His Word, world, or people.3. Enjoy your candy!


March: God Rescues Us!

Supplies: God Rescues Us! sign (page 16 in this document), colored Lifesavers® candy (one per every girl/counselor), markers/colors/colored pencils

Preparation: Place the God Rescues Us! sign in the middle of a table Use markers/colors/colored pencils to fill in the circles to correspond

with the colors of available candy Place the candy in a bowl near the sign Set the table near the His Story Board


Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive Girls should follow the instructions on the God Rescues Us! sign


God Rescues Us!

1. Choose a candy.2. Share with two girls or counselors your answer to the question that

corresponds with the color of your candy!3. Enjoy your candy!

Share your favorite Bible character

Share your favorite Bible story

Share your favorite place to read your Bible

Share your favorite verse or book of the Bible

Share how God’s Word is like a light and lamp


April: His Light on our Path

Note: You could display this poster for a Year-End Family Celebration and/or GEMS Sunday

Supplies: A long sheet of butcher paper and markers

Preparation: Place the sheet of butcher paper and markers on the floor near the His

Story Board Use the markers to write: God’s Word is a lamp for our feet and a light on

our path!


Activity: Greet the girls as they arrive Girls should trace their feet on the butcher paper and write their first

name within one foot and their last name within the second foot

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