Eric, Mary, David and Sarah Kleppinger aren't your typical Northern Virginia family...they put the "super" in SuperNoVA! Come along on our adventures and keep up with all we do!
Sarah's Girl Scout troop, Troop 2349, completed their Silver Award requirements this year. For those not familiar with it, the Silver Award is the second-highest in Girl Scouting, and among other things, requires to girls to devote hours to a community service project.
For their Silver Award, the girls of Troop 2349 elected to knit warm winter hats for homeless and less-well-off people in Fairfax County. Each girl committed to knitting at least ten hats. Then this spring, the local council held its Precious Metals ceremony at which it recognized all the girls in all the troops who had earned the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards. Here is the video of Troop 2349 accepting their award and describing their work.
The girls have now crossed over into being Senior Girl Scouts, and for their Gold Awards, have to come up with new projects. The Gold Award, the highest in Girl Scouting, will require Sarah to come up with a project, develop and plan, obtain resources, and recruit others into helping her. She has a few ideas already...it will be fun to see which she chooses and works on in the next couple of years!
Here's our Silver Awardee, note the new pin next to the blue tab on her vest! Congratulations Sarah!
Erin, the youth ministries director at our church, has created a blog to track the adventures of our two sets of youth missions this summer. Be sure to follow Never Too Young, where she's going to chronicle the kids' adventures at Jeremiah Project near Winchester, VA (including Sarah's adventures there), and then at Strong Missions in Costa Rica (for which David leaves Sunday morning). The kids are doing great things as Christ's hands and feet, it's heartwarming to see them in action!
