Forget Girl Scouts! This Troop Embraces 'God, Faith, Country'...

Patti Garibay, executive director of American Heritage Girls These Last Days News - February 11, 2012

TURN BACK
"This evil has penetrated far into the very heart of My House. You must now turn back and restore My House. I, your God, give you this command for the salvation of your own soul." - Jesus, August 21, 1976

WND reported on February 4, 2012:

Worried about America’s daughters learning to glorify feminist, communist and lesbian role models in the popular Girl Scouts organization? Take heart: There’s a wholesome alternative that embraces the values you hold dear, while offering all the traditional scouting adventures you loved as a child.

Campfire stories, square knots and merit badges have been a part of Patti Garibay’s life since she can remember. She donned her first uniform as a Brownie in a troop led by her mother, and her school years revolved around the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Garibay, executive director of American Heritage Girls and co-founder of the organization, told WND, “I loved it. I worked hard to earn my badges, and I especially enjoyed the outdoor camping activities.”

She spent nearly two decades in Girl Scouts – six years as a girl member and 13 years as a troop leader in Cincinnati, Ohio. Garibay was also a recruiter, camp coordinator and area delegate, winning awards for outstanding leader and volunteer in both councils in which she served.

In Garibay’s words, she “bled green.”

“I had three daughters, so I was very involved,” she said.

In 1993, Garibay learned of the organization’s plans to revise the Girl Scout Promise as part of efforts to recruit members who did not embrace a Judeo-Christian concept of God. Under the new policy, the word “God” was no longer mandatory.

While the Girl Scouts retained the official wording, the pledge would allow “spiritual flexibility,” or simply the promise to serve. Garibay, a Christian, challenged the new policy. She expressed her concerns through the chain of command, but said her pleas went unheeded, despite her status within the organization.

“Where is God in all this?” Garibay wondered. In her heart, she knew biblical values were integral to any group that emphasized character development.

That year, delegates to the national convention voted 1,560 to 375 to revise the pledge, which reads: “On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law.”

In the Girl Scout curriculum, the organization’s promise now includes an asterisk with the following disclaimer:

Girl Scouts of the USA makes no attempt to define or interpret the word “God” in the Girl Scout Promise. It looks to individual members to establish for themselves the nature of their spiritual beliefs. When making the Girl Scout Promise, individuals may substitute wording appropriate to their own spiritual beliefs for the word “God.”

More policy changes to promote “diversity” followed revisions to the pledge. When mandatory training for scout leaders promoted the acceptance of homosexuality as normal, Garibay found herself faced with a dilemma of “biblical” proportions.

“It was like a Pandora’s Box being opened,” she said.

After much soul-searching, she quit the Girl Scouts, even though it was part of her personal ministry. She called a meeting with other parents, who recognized the need for a Christ-centered alternative for their daughters. They began searching for an acceptable surrogate to organizations they viewed as increasingly secular. Their search came up empty.

“Rather than curse the darkness, I was encouraged to light a candle and start something new,” Garibay explained.

And thus was the genesis of the American Heritage Girls.

Five leaders in the Cincinnati area joined with Garibay to forge a new nonprofit scouting program that would “build women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country.” AHG became a reality on Aug. 30, 1995, when it was incorporated in Ohio.

“We started a little club to honor God,” Garibay said. “Before we knew it, people from California were calling us.”

What makes American Heritage Girls different?

“Faith, service, fun,” Garibay said. “Faith is our first name.”

AHG embraces faith as the cornerstone of a young woman’s life and scouts are encouraged to find their empowerment through Christ.

Miki, an AHG troop leader in Kentucky, said, “In a world where values, morals and character seem to defy Him more and more, AHG is an affordable program that will impact girls’ hearts and lives forever. If only we had this program, consider how our lives would and could have been different!”

AHG’s mission is to enrich the lives of girls through dedication to service, spiritual growth, servant leadership, goal setting, teamwork and purity. American Heritage Girls are encouraged to maintain their purity in thought, word and dress.

Ann, a former AHG scout who is serving in the U.S. Army, said, “Service is perhaps one of the most significant things I learned in AHG.

“My troop participated in many, many service projects. I really enjoyed serving others, which grew into my decision to serve the country. Christ also calls us to be servants.”

AHG troops can be chartered by a variety of organizations, churches, schools or nonprofits. The girls meet for fun, service projects and leadership-building activities. They can pursue more than 240 age-appropriate badges and outdoor activities. Individual troops conduct fundraising through Christ-centered vendors.

“Girls of all ages can be in one troop,” Garibay explained. “Older girls can teach the younger girls and it also teaches leadership and mentoring skills.”

James Dobson, the child psychologist and parenting expert who founded the well-known Focus on the Family ministry, has given a hat tip to the American Heritage Girls.

“I recommend American Heritage Girls enthusiastically to parents who want their daughters involved in a traditional Christian-based program that will reinforce what they are trying to teach at home,” he wrote in his book, “Bringing Up Girls.”

In 2009, AHG scored a coup when it became the only all-girls organization to partner with the Boys Scouts of America. Affiliated programs for both boys and girls offer an appealing combination for families. On Feb. 5, AHG will join the Boy Scouts to celebrate Scout Sunday in churches across the nation. In August, the group will spend a week networking at Philmont Scout Ranch, the BSA’s national high-adventure base in New Mexico. AHG has also entered into other valuable partnerships with Veggie Tales, Secret Keeper Girls, iShine, Compassion International, Operation Christmas Child and Joni and Friends.

Faith, a 12-year-old AHG scout, said, “My brother is in Boy Scouts, soccer and karate. I felt left out – but now I have friends in AHG. Friends that love God and understand what is important to me.”

As Girl Scouts becomes more secularized, American Heritage Girls is growing.

“Over 90 percent of the people who come to us have left the Girl Scouts,” Garibay noted. “We’re like the best kept secret.”

In the 16 short years since its inception, AHG boasts 18,000 members and has expanded to 45 states and four countries. It has become the fastest-growing all-girl scouting organization. According to the group, membership spiked by 50 percent last year. While AHG is a Christian group, it includes girls from all faiths.

Today, it is considered the premier faith-based national character development and leadership group for young women.

“Not only was this the answer to my prayer for guidance to develop my daughter into a woman of integrity but also a call for me to become more personal with my walk with the Lord,” said Stephanie, a troop leader in Virginia. “Even though we attend church and Sunday school weekly, there was still a need to be more purposeful in our weekday life. My walk with God has been much closer these past two years then it has been my entire Christian life. I am a witness that God has mightily blessed the founders’ efforts and continues to call His children of all ages closer to His heart.”

Garibay delights in the many blessings bestowed upon the girl members and the many “kitchen table parents” who “start a legacy in their communities by leading an AHG troop.”

She said the impact on the adult leaders is powerful and sums it up this way:

“To see the fruits of this labor has been a real blessing. This has almost become a ladies ministry – another fruit we didn’t anticipate. But when God’s in it, you never know!”

The American Heritage Girl Oath: “I promise to love God, cherish my family, honor my country, and serve in my community.”

Creed: “As an American Heritage Girl, I will be: Compassionate, Helpful, Honest, Loyal, Persevering, Pure, Resourceful, Respectful, Responsible, Reverent.”

For more information about AHG or to learn how to start a troop in your area:

American Heritage Girls
Box 242, West Chester, OH 45071
Email: ahg@americanheritagegirls.org
AHGonline.org

"O pastors in My Son's House, how many times must I warn you of the dangers of your innovations, the dangers of your experimenting in My Son's House? You will not convert, you will not return Our straying sheep with your improvisions. You must return discipline to My Son's House. This discipline must start with the rulers in My Son's House." - Our Lady, November 22, 1976

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

YOU WILL STOP EXPERIMENTING
"My child and My children, I come once more with an urgent and pleading message to the hierarchy in the Church, My Church upon earth. I want you to know now that We look upon you and find many that do not fall into grace. They are falling out of grace and misleading many of Our sheep.
     "Therefore, I warn you now as your God: You will stop your intricacies within My Church. You will stop experimenting. I gave you the rules to follow many years ago, two thousand years approximately. And why now, two thousand years later, do you deem it necessary to change My Church upon earth? I, your God, say to you, you will be judged accordingly. You will return My Church to its former glory, and in that manner you will have more vocations and more entering the seminaries, and not fleeing from them as they hear the heresies and all other innovations that are going on within My Church. This is My last and final word to My clergy: Change now or suffer a just punishment and banishment." - Jesus, June 18, 1986

RETURN TO YOUR TRADITIONAL RITES
”I send to My clergy, those whom I have given the grace to represent Heaven upon earth, this warning: You must now return to your traditional rites! You must restore My House from its crumbling exterior and rotting interior. You must rebuild what you seek to destroy--now!
     "Many who call themselves My chosen ones have set themselves to destroy from within. Your actions have not gone by unnoticed by the Eternal Father. Error, deception, deceit, in the guise of sanctity and piousness! You are unmasked before the Eternal Father. You shall start little by little and repair the foundation, or you shall be within and destroy.
     "I look upon all manner of abominations being committed in My House. Do you think you will go much longer without chastisement? Awaken from your slumber, My clergy! You deceive no one!” - Jesus, November 22, 1975

CHANGING THE CONSTRUCTION
“You will not bring about a conversion of those who are presently apostate by compromising your Faith or changing the construction of the exterior lines of My Church; and by that I mean the physical appearance and the manner in which you conduct the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
     “Many are giving My Body in a manner that can only be called blasphemy. Many are accepting My Body in the Eucharist in a manner that defames the Divinity, and also promotes unholiness, paganism, and impurity of heart and actions during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.” - Jesus, May 26, 1979

CHANGES MUST BE STOPPED AND REVERSED
"There is no excuse accepted now by the Eternal Father among the clergy, who now offend the Eternal Father by misleading the children of God upon earth. The experimentation and changes must be stopped and reversed! There is no other course.” – Our Lady, August 4, 1979

“RESTORE MY HOUSE!”
"My Mother has given you My way. It is a simple road that must be followed. The rules have been given to you that must not be changed, as you cater to the basic carnal nature of man, a generation that has fallen! You will not make changes within My House, for you have dispersed My sheep. You will restore My House to its former glory. Strip you hearts of your pride! Recognize your errors and restore My House!
     "I say this to you for your Creator, as your God: Restore My House, or I shall come down and restore it Myself with a firm hand! And shall you stand before Me, O pastors, and say that your teachings have been pure in My sight? I shall take you and spit you out as spittle into the fires of eternal damnation! Vermin that came out of the flowers!” – Jesus, December 28, 1976

STOP CHANGE AND NOVELTY
"My child and My children, make it known to all that the road to Heaven was never easy, but you can make it much easier upon yourselves and your families if you follow the rules, if you follow the Commandments from the Eternal Father. The changes that We see taking place in My House and upon earth are not good, for many, many souls are falling into hell. And a great measure of responsibility now is with those who have been called to the holy orders, who have given themselves to represent Me upon earth. Shall I say that I have found many Judases now within My House? Cannot this situation be changed?
     "There is only one way that this can be stopped, this evil that has seeped into My House and into the hearts of all mankind. You must stop now your seeking for change and novelty. You must restore My Church to its former glory. Admit your error. Do not conceal this with pride and arrogance.
     "Remember there was the time when it was necessary to cast Luciel and his followers from Heaven--Lucifer, who now goads you on to hell with him, upon earth. He had to be cast from Heaven because he, too, became prideful and arrogant, seeking to make himself another living god. This cannot be done. You cannot be above your Creator.” – Jesus, September 7, 1978

DO NOT ACCEPT
"My children, you must retain Tradition; you must retain a firm foundation of your faith by keeping all of the good publications. Do not accept the changes that have been made by satan to seduce your souls.” – Jesus, November 19, 1977

INDOCTRINATED
Veronica - The books are being changed to cover the evil being perpetrated now. The young are being indoctrinated to accept changes which will take away Tradition and even doctrine. Our Lady said we must all pray a constant vigilance of prayer. It has a great power over the demons. – November 19, 1977

NOT FROM HOLY SPIRIT
"I must, My child, make it known at this time that you must go back in the immediate years and bring the knowledge to mankind that these changes, the changes that have given bad fruits, have not been given to you through the Holy Spirit and through your Vicar, Pope Paul VI. It is the web of satan reaching out. Many are now, My child, puppets. The strings are being pulled by Benelli, Villot, and Casaroli and their followers.” – Our Lady, September 27, 1975

YOU HAVE STRAYED
"O My children, how far you have strayed from the truth! The knowledge given to you by your prophets were written down in truth to guide you, but now you change the words to suit your basic carnal human natures. Go back and read, My children, the true words of your prophets. But do not accept changes in the Book, for these changes have been promoted by satan. Heresy, O mournful heresy, whatever shall become of you!
     "Parents, I caution you anew to guard the souls of your children by your teaching and example. You cannot save your children's souls by giving them to false teachers and the world, for the world has now been given to satan.” – Our Lady, June 5, 1976

“WE DO NOT CONDONE VARIATIONS AND CHANGES"
"It has grieved Me much in the past, as it grieves Me now, that mankind is making changes to My words. I assure you, My children and pastors within My houses, My Church upon earth, there is no necessity to change My words. Heaven, hell, purgatory, and especially, My children, the word 'hell' must be retained in your prayers.
     "Repeat, My child, the confessional prayer.
     O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I confess to all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because I love Thee, my God, Who are all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.
     "Yes, My child, We do not condone variations and changes. It is the enemies of your God that have set themselves to promote change upon My words. The word of your God is eternal and must not be changed.” – Jesus, February 10, 1977

ONLY SATAN SEEKS CHANGE
"We ask--the Eternal Father speaks, and demands that all bishops in the houses of God throughout your world must turn back to prayer. They must turn back from the road they have chosen, a road filled with error, corruption, and sin. Man will not make changes in the House of God to please the basic carnal nature of mankind! But man in the House of God--the leaders, the clergy chosen by the Eternal Father, shall turn man from his path of destruction and bring him into the House of God. This he will not accomplish by lowering the rule or standards. Man must change his ways and follow the ways of God.
     "You are, My children, living in the era of Antichrist. Recognize the signs of your times, and you will not fall into error. Read the Book, My children. You read books of corruption and vile debauchery. Restore the truth in your heart, into your children and homes. Open the good Book, the Bible, and read it in your homes.
     "My Son has already set up the rule for the houses throughout the world, the churches. They are written in the Book of love and life, the Bible. Read and learn, and follow the truth!
     "There is no time or change in Heaven. The Father never changes. It is only satan who seeks change to disturb, corrupt, and degrade. Satan roams wherever there is darkness of spirit. He will debase mankind in a manner so foul that you will know that no human could conceive of such vileness of sin.” – Our Lady, March 22, 1975

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