Introducing the Little Flowers

My husband Jason and I, Jenny, felt called to begin a Little Flowers Girls Club at our parish. This call coincided with a global pandemic, but we were not deterred. Little Flowers is a Catholic scouting program built on the spirituality of St Thérèse the Little Flower of Lisieux (my patron saint!). There are no outgoing dues or requirements, so the club is entirely under the charter of our parish. We have the option to purchase materials such as lesson books and patches from the organization. It is a beautifully simplistic framework that can be easily expanded to fit the needs of our group. If you'd like to know more about the official organization go here.

Though we are limited in our ability to meet indoors in a traditional sense, we are doing what we can to gather our youth for faith formation, fun, service, and skill building in a safe, socially distanced way. We will need to become more creative when winter sets in, but our hope is to meet once per month for a lesson and activity, along with service opportunities as they arise throughout the year. Though we are a girl focused ministry for grades K-8, siblings and parents are always welcome to participate as appropriate. 

 Most Little Flower groups gather once a month for a craft, snack, and life skills lesson based on a virtue, a saint, and a type of flower. They earn badges and share faith. We do the same, but have included more scouting activities such as camping, canoeing, and hiking and we are a service ministry as well so we serve at parish and community functions. I am a catechist with a great fondness for the saints, married to an outdoorsy, problem solver, nurse, so we make a great team for this endeavor. Virtue meets Adventure!

This blog will serve as a journal of our activities and a place to share our photos. If you would like your photos included, please e-mail them to me and I will add them to our blog. 

So far, we have gone canoeing, made and launched model rockets, cleaned up trash from a park, raised funds with Covid safe door to door candy sales, and had our first petal meeting. I'll detail those events in upcoming posts. Our next planned event is a petal meeting. We'll show an outdoor movie,  have a campfire, share in a lesson on faith and St. Catherine of Siena, and we'll prepare Advent candles to sell at the parish. 

Thank you for joining us in our endeavor to grow this ministry.

St. Thérèse, Pray for Us!