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Young women begin year of “Personal Progress”
Teenage girls connect with their mothers Local young women celebrate “New Beginnings”
Young Women choose to stand for what is right
The Story
by Wendy Vassilaros
On Sunday February 10th, young women ages 12-18 from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (LDS), recommitted to live clean, moral, Christ-centered lives at an age when living such values can be difficult at best. At the start of each year, LDS girls hold a celebration appropriately called, New Beginnings. Marilyn Lamb, secretary of the Young Women’s organization explains, “We have the opportunity to invite all the young women and their parents for an evening to hear the girls explain their new goals and speak about their standards and value experiences.” Young women work with their parents, Young Women leaders, and other exemplary women to set and accomplish goals based on the eight Young Women values, such as Faith, Integrity, and Good Works. Personal Progress is meant to help parents and leaders improve their relationship with young women as they work together on something worthwhile.
While speaking to the parents at the New Beginnings celebration, Marci Paul, the local Young Women’s President encouraged parents by saying, “Even though our daughters are teenagers, we still need to snuggle with them, connect with them, and talk with them. This is a precious sacred time.” The mothers are asked to work alongside their daughters to help them set goals and work on projects to graduate from the program before they finish their graduate from high school. The young women program is outlined in a Personal Progress booklet that each LDS girl receives at the age of 12.
This booklet contains experiences and projects the girls can choose from to be completed throughout each year that helps them in developing each of eight specific values including Knowledge, Choice and Accountability and Individual Worth. At the end of the four-year Young Women’s program, if all requirements are met, the young woman receives a Young Womanhood Recognition award that includes a certificate and gold medallion.
For more information on Young Women’s Personal Progress for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, please visit the following link: https://www.lds.org/young-women/personal-progress?lang=eng
Picture Details (pictures taken by Wendy Vassilaros) http://karenlake.com/press/newbeginnings/
1. Daniel Schoessow (Foothill Ranch), Bishop of the Foothill Ranch Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, makes closing remarks at the end of the Young Women’s annual New Beginnings program.
2. Sisters Tori and Jenni Feist (Foothill Ranch) play the song, “I Am A Child Of God”.
3. Sarah Kraus (Portola Hills), a young woman from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, welcomes the girls and their parents to the annual New Beginnings program.
Young Women choose to stand for what is right
by Wendy Vassilaros
On Sunday February 10th, young women ages 12-18 from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (LDS), recommitted to live clean, moral, Christ-centered lives at an age when living such values can be difficult at best.
At the start of each year, LDS girls hold a celebration appropriately called, New Beginnings.
Daniel Schoessow (Foothill Ranch), Bishop of the Foothill Ranch Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, makes closing remarks at the end of the Young Women’s annual New Beginnings program
Marilyn Lamb, secretary of the Young Women’s organization explains, “We have the opportunity to invite all the young women and their parents for an evening to hear the girls explain their new goals and speak about their standards and value experiences.”
Sisters Tori and Jenni Feist (Foothill Ranch) play the song, “I Am A Child Of God”
Young women work with their parents, Young Women leaders, and other exemplary women to set and accomplish goals based on the eight Young Women values, such as Faith, Integrity, and Good Works. Personal Progress is meant to help parents and leaders improve their relationship with young women as they work together on something worthwhile.
While speaking to the parents at the New Beginnings celebration, Marci Paul, the local Young Women’s President encouraged parents by saying, “Even though our daughters are teenagers, we still need to snuggle with them, connect with them, and talk with them. This is a precious sacred time.” The mothers are asked to work alongside their daughters to help them set goals and work on projects to graduate from the program before they finish their graduate from high school. The young women program is outlined in a Personal Progress booklet that each LDS girl receives at the age of 12.
This booklet contains experiences and projects the girls can choose from to be completed throughout each year that helps them in developing each of eight specific values including Knowledge, Choice and Accountability and Individual Worth. At the end of the four-year Young Women’s program, if all requirements are met, the young woman receives a Young Womanhood Recognition award that includes a certificate and gold medallion.
For more information on Young Women’s Personal Progress for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, please visit the following link: https://www.lds.org/young-women/personal-progress?lang=eng
Karen Lake
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Media Director: Santa Margarita Stake
http://www.mormons.org
