I promise to love God, cherish my family, honor my country, and serve in my community. This is the oath that an American Heritage Girl (AHG) recites at each Troop meeting and ceremony and has done so since our very beginning in 1995. These words, over time, become engraved on a girl’s heart and mind.
The concepts of love, cherish, honor and serve are integral to the AHG experience. They are rooted in the belief that there is a loving Creator who deserves our love in return. That loving Creator has provided a family for us to cherish, a country for us to honor and a community that desperately needs to know His love — demonstrated through selfless acts of kindness or service.
AHG believes that each life is truly a gift from God and has an immense innate worth. After all, we are created in the image of our Creator! “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27, NIV). John 1:3, ESV reiterates: “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.”
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