A Sunbeam-GMA-Galilean Presentation

Decorations: Decorate the area where the program will take place like an out-door garden scene. You may wish to prepare wicker fans with arrangements of yellow daises or similar silk flowers on them. The church altar may be backed with a lattice divider to which gold cellophane has been attached on the back-side. Shine a spotlight from the back through the lattice. You may wish to use white wicker or wrought iron chairs for your queens to sit. You may use regular folding chairs for the other girls and cover the backs with gold florist foil to dress them up. Use big baskets of fern and other weeping potted flowers as well as baskets or pots of yellow flowers, such as mums. Add a large candle tree on either side of the choir area and globe candleholders down the center aisle. In the foyer you may wish to place a table with yellow flowered or lace over yellow cloth. On the table you may place a guest book, one of the fans and a pot of yellow flowers. If there is room for a bulletin board, place the theme of your program in gold foil letters and pictures of each girl in GMA and her father on the board. Use a white or green background on the bulletin board. You should be able to find these decorations at a paper or school supply store.

We are so thankful you have chosen to spend this time in honor and praise to our Heavenly Father. Although this is a time of accomplishment for our young people, more importantly it is a time to glorify the Lord. As we reflect together on Father's Day, let us also reflect on our Heavenly Father and how we can learn to see others through His eyes.

Song: Through Your Eyes

What is Father's Day? It is a day of honoring, sharing, remembering; a day that evokes many emotions--joy, gratitude, love, and possibly some sorrow and regret. Yet, so many times we give such notice and glory to our mothers and yet fail to recognize the part of our lives that our dads help mold and formulate.

It has been noted that by the time a child is four or five, their personality is shaped. We often assume the mother carries the burden of responsibility, yet it is the father who should set the spiritual tone for the home and thereby the framework of the lives within it.

To be able to accomplish the desired results in the lives of our younger generation, there must be a good example set by the older generation. Dads, you are being looked up to by your wives for leadership, protection, spiritual strength, and love; by your children for the same-leadership, protection, spiritual strength, and love. The task would be overwhelming if you had not Someone to turn to for guidance. You are not alone; you do have Someone--the Lord Jesus Christ--that you can look up to. Just as children so often try to imitate the looks, actions, and every being of their earthly fathers, even so you also as fathers, even all of us as children of God, should do all to emulate the words, actions, and very essence of our Heavenly Father. How?

It is our aim, as counselors and teachers of our Sunbeams, GMA and Galileans, that our young people will begin now hiding God's Word in their hearts and incorporating it into their daily lives. That it will be natural for them to have EARS that are swift to hear, TONGUES that are slow to speak, HEARTS that are slow to wrath, and EYES just like MY FATHER'S EYES.

I would like to share this thought s we begin our Sunbeam program.

Each little child God sends our way

Is like a piece of soft, new clay;

Tis ours to mold and shape and trim

To make it pleasing unto Him.

Sunbeam Program: Sunbeam counselors should be in charge of this part of the program. They may introduce each child, ask each child to answer or recite, then present the sashes, pins, and/or awards according to their accomplishments.

Galilean Program: The Galilean leaders should be in charge of this part of the program to recognize the boys who have advanced in their ranks and present the awards accordingly.

GMA Program: Introduce each Forward Step and tell something about what they have studied and memorized. Ask each girl to recite an assigned portion of the requirements for her step. The girls may be escorted by the Galileans or by their fathers. Each girl may choose a young child to be the pillow bearer with her award. Awards are listed in the GMA Manual in the chapter "What are Forward Steps?" When you present the queens, explain the symbolism of each award.

After the Queens are presented and awarded you may wish to use the song "The Day He Wore My Crown" as a solo. After the Imperial Queen you may use "My Father's Eyes" as a solo. After Sovereign Queens you may use "A Vessel of Honor" with the entire group of GMA's and Galileans singing.