The Girls’ Brigade in Northern Ireland is currently looking for new churches to open GB companies. We are interdenominational and are keen to talk to your church leaders if you currently do not have a GB company either in your church or in the immediate area.

What’s In it for Your Church?

• A ready made, relevant, dynamic youth ministry for your young girls.
  
  
• Affiliation to Girls’ Brigade NI
  
  • An established brand name, trusted and respected by parents
  • A network of support at local and NI levels
  • Training, resources and support for your leaders
  • Prayer support for your girls and leaders
    
    
• A unique opportunity for outreach
  
  • Proven to attract non church goers
  • Valuable outreach opportunities for parents too
    
    
• Gain a vibrant youth community in your church
  
  
• Excellent training ground for your future church leaders
  
  
• First class, modern, relevant scripture courses.

What GBNI Provide ...

• The structure, rules and guidelines to help set up and run your own company
  
  
• A basic start up grant
  
  
• Training & Support for your leaders
  
  
• Policies & Advice – Anti-bullying, Child Protection, Alcohol & other Drugs Awareness & Education Policy etc.
  
  
• PSALT files (Physical & Spiritual Applications for Living Today)
  
  • A GB programme of relevant, fun, age appropriate activities
  • Designed to encourage girls to see the relevance of God’s word applied throughout the GB programme and in their every day lives
  • Hard copy and CD Rom (now available to leaders to download from the Members section)
  • One stop resource for all your activities
    
    
• Scripture Courses
  • New material annually
  • Relevant & meaningful Christian teaching for girls
  • Non-exam resources to assessing understanding & application such as table quizzes, board games, personal journals etc
    
    
• Shop
  • We sell uniform, resources, awards and gifts in our Supplies department in headquarters.
    
    
• Competitions & Events
  • We organise inter-company sporting competitions such as football, netball, unihoc, orienteering, swimming
  • Non-competitive events – dance night, praise party, craft days
    
    
• Marketing & Communication Support
  • Web Site
  • Regular newssheets and e-news
  • PR in local & regional press & church journals
  • Publicity Material

Your Responsibilities:

You, the Church make it YOUR GB Company!

Girls’ Brigade works in partnership with churches & missions to deliver the GB programme and help girls discover God. The church/mission provides the following for their own Company:

• Leadership & overall management
• Premises
• Insurance
• Pastoral support
• Financial support – Each GB company pays a levy per member to GBHQ annually. This is currently £6 per member. This may be funded through GB week when each girl may be given an official collection card to ask for donations from friends and family towards the work of GB. Some companies ask parents to contribute towards this fee whilst others run fundraising events.

Interested?

Would you like to hear more about starting a GB company? Contact us and ask for Wendy Campbell.

We would be delighted to come along to meet with you church leaders and set up a short presentation and question & answer session to further explore what GB has to offer the youth ministry in your Church.