Ceremony One

Materials needed

• Flashlight
• Paper dolls of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from other countries*
• Collection container with symbol of World Association on it
• Girls should have their donations for the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund (If a girl can not afford to make a donation, give her a few coins from the troop treasury to donate so she feels included.)

Each girl chooses her own paper doll. Girls stand in a semi-circle. Lights are dimmed.

LEADER:
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
Stretch out your hands
And bring in your sisters
From faraway lands

One by one, each Girl Scout steps to the center of the semi-circle. Using the flashlight to illuminate the doll, the girl says, "This is my Girl Scout/Girl Guide friend from _____________ ." (She may add an interesting fact learned about the country, uniform, insignia etc.) The girl then stands her doll by the container and drops in her donation to the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund. Continue process for each girl.

LEADER:
We light our lights to show we are thinking of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides everywhere. Your coins will help more girls become members of the organization and send our sisterhood around the world. Let us say our Girl Scout Promise together and think of all the other girls in many nations saying their Promise and thinking of us this day.

Everyone makes the Girl Scout sign and repeats the Girl Scout Promise.

Conclude with an appropriate song such as "It's a Small World."

Ceremony Two

Materials needed

• One large green candle
• Six smaller candles of six different colors (except green) to represent the continents
  Matches, holders

GIRL SCOUT 1:
I light the flame of sisterhood that burns in the heart of every Girl Scout. (light green candle)

GIRL SCOUT 2:
Girl Scouts come from many lands. All with smiles and helping hands, though they speak another way, the Law, the Promise, they obey.

GIRL SCOUT 3:
I light this candle in friendship for all the Girl Scouts and Guides who live in Africa. Watch the flame closely please. (light candle)

GIRL SCOUT 4:
I light this candle for all the Girl Scouts and Guides who live in South America. Watch the flame closely please. (light candle)

GIRL SCOUT 5:
I light this candle for all the Girl Scouts and Guides who live in North America. Watch the flame closely please. (light candle)

GIRL SCOUT 6:
I light this candle for all the Girl Scouts and Guides who live in Asia. Watch the flame closely please. (light candle)

GIRL SCOUT 7:
I light this candle for all the Girl Scouts and Guides who live in Europe. Watch the flame closely please. (light candle)

GIRL SCOUT 8:
I light this candle for all the Girl Scouts and Guides who live in Australia. Watch the flame closely please. (light candle)

GIRL SCOUT 9:
Have you noticed the light from one candle is the same as the other even though the outside covering is different on each one?

GIRL SCOUT 10:
The culture of the nations vary from one to the other but we all have basic needs. We wish to be recognized, to be called by name, and to be loved.

Ceremony Three

You'll need: 8 candles (all shapes, colors and sizes)

GIRL SCOUT 1:
Stars that shine together form a galaxy. Flowers that grow together create a garden. Buildings that stand together begin a city. People who work together make a difference. This is what valuing differences is all about. I light this candle for valuing differences.

GIRL SCOUT 2:
I light this candle in friendship for all of the people who are older or younger, taller or smaller, richer or poorer than I.

GIRL SCOUT 3:
I light this candle in friendship for all people who worship differently than I.

GIRL SCOUT 4:
I light this candle in friendship for all people of a different nationality or ethnicity than I.

GIRL SCOUT 5:
I light this candle in friendship for all people who are of a different color than I.

GIRL SCOUT 6:
I light this candle in friendship for all people who come from other countries than I.

GIRL SCOUT 7:
I light this candle in friendship for all people who don't run, walk, see, hear, or learn the same as I.

GIRL SCOUT 8:
I light this candle for me, for I am unique and special. Watch the flames closely. Please notice the light from each candle is the same as the others even though the outside of each is different. So, too, are all of us in the world. We wear different clothes, speak different languages, follow different religions or beliefs, like different foods and sing different songs.

And yet, we all belong to the same human race. Inside we are all the same. We all wish to be recognized, we all wish to be called by name, we all wish to be loved, we all wish for friends and we all wish for peace.

In the spirit of International understanding, we pledge ourselves to world friendship. In the spirit of International understanding, we pledge ourselves to peacemaking. Look wide and, when you think you are looking wide, look wider still!

In the spirit of International understanding, we pledge ourselves to accept the challenge to look wider still.