Dear Girls,

What a busy and successful summer we have had! Your Installations were beautiful and fun. I know this will be a great fall. Our Jurisdiction is currently number 5 among all the Jurisdictions with 22.9% increase in membership so far this year. I am sure we will move up as we have our initiations in September. It was wonderful to see all the new girls and prospective members at our leadership retreat. The Pandora-style bracelet charms are a great additional incentive!

Supreme Assembly was a thrill. I truly wish all of you could have been there to see Nicole as Acting Supreme Love, Lauren in the Cavalcade of Flags, Stevie in the Jurisdictional Skit, and the Cochrane sisters in their beautiful stringed instrument performance.

It’s important for you to know how honored Virginia is to have our own Past Supreme Inspector, Susan Rennagel “Mom Renn,” installed as Supreme Charity. Virginia will have a Supreme Worthy Advisor in 2016! Mrs. Dedra Hart, Supreme Inspector in South Carolina, our Sister Jurisdiction, is now Supreme Love. All of us have a right to be proud of these fine ladies. The Supreme Worthy Advisor is Mary Adeline Bradford from Maryland. She has many wonderful programs for the next two years, including a Supreme Assembly close to us in Baltimore. Thank you to the girls at the Retreat who showed us how great the Supreme 2012 Session was so that all of you would know what a special experience is in store for you in 2014.

Grand Worthy Advisor Lauren and I attended Job’s Daughters Session and DeMolay Conclave. We were so pleased to see the youth groups working together. These were Lauren’s first opportunities to give remarks, and she did an excellent job of representing us.

The Rainbow Retreat in Jamestown was a highlight of the summer! Many thanks go to Jamie Waite, Lauren, Mom Waite, and Mom Heller in planning and carrying out an entertaining and educational weekend. Mom Norman helped us with communication; I can already see the benefits of her session. I hope you all had fun and plenty to eat. The 4-H Camp did all it could to see we couldn’t possibly go away hungry!

What can I say about the Roc Solid project? I have never been more proud of my Rainbow Girls. The project, which was Lauren’s vision, was absolutely perfect and meaningful. The manner in which you girls pitched in and accomplished the tasks was exemplary. The secret is out: you can paint, organize, clean, mulch, rake, weed, etc. Most of all, you can inspire and encourage a young girl who needed your help. Kudos!

September includes the golf tournament, miniature golf, and the MCHQWA Ball. I hope to see you at all of these activities. Always be proud to be a Rainbow Girl!

In Rainbow Love and Service,

Mom J

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On August 14^th at Taylor’s first meeting of her new term, we had an ice cream social before our meeting. There were many different types of ice cream available such as Reeses ice cream cups, frozen chocolate covered bananas and Klondike bars. The ice cream was very good and was a great way to start off the meeting. I feel like it even gave the girls more energy to come up with so many great ideas for the Grand Visitation coming soon in November. I enjoyed the first meeting and I am sure the rest of her term will be just as fun J

Erin

Richmond Assembly #10

On August 4th and 5th we had our 2012 Rainbow Retreat. It started bright and early on that Saturday morning. When we all arrived we got our name tags that said which cabin room we would be in. After we all put our stuff down and got situated we had the Pledge Party. During the Pledge Party we played this game. The object of the game was to put each color of the Rainbow to a day of the week. So if you don’t like the day Monday you could maybe put red because it makes you angry. Then we went inside and worked on our posters for the poster contest. After we played a skittles game. Every person got their own pack of skittles, for every color skittle there was a question. There was a team leader at every table to tell everyone which color to take out. The next thing we had was lunch. For lunch we had subs, chips, cookies, and much more. It was all very delicious. Then after lunch we played this game called “Caterpillar”. We got into our cabin groups and tied our legs together. We had to walk through the hula hoops with our falling, touching the hula hoop, or stepping out. Next we got to relax and get ready for the pool. The pool was fun. It cooled us off. Then we went into our cabins and relaxed and took showers and stuff like that to keep everyone cool. Then we went and ate dinner and played the make-up game. This game was really fun! We were blind folded and then had to paint someone’s nails, do their hair, and then put make up on them. After all of that we went back to our cabins and changed in to our pj’s and went to the bon fire where we had smores. On Sunday we had to get up and get ready to be at breakfast at 8:00am. Then we listened to Lauren (GWA) talk to us and then Mom J. talked to us too. After all that we took our famous picture. After that we all said our “good byes” and left to go home.

In Rainbow Love and Service,

Lindsey

Smithfield Assembly #5