07/07/2024
Dear Families of AHG Troop NC0345,
With sadness, we must send this email, to announce that we will not be able to continue our troop during the 2024/2025 Troop Year.
This was a very difficult decision but at this point in the rechartering process, we just do not have the committed leadership to move forward. We still have an open board position to fill before being allowed even to recharter. Even if we could recharter, we only have two committed leaders for the upcoming year.
This has been the case for a couple of years now. We just do not have the leadership at the end of the troop year and we have to scramble during the summer to find volunteers/leadership.
This past troop year we were lucky and did have enough volunteers to proceed but those volunteers were signed on last minute and with most of the board being unit leaders as well we did not have the time to train those volunteers on how to do things (add service hours, how processes work; such as how to get reimbursements, or program fees that affect troop budgets, etc.). They did not get the experience as a new leader that they should have gotten, and we want to make sure we have the time to provide an amazing training and welcoming experience to all new upcoming leaders. If we tried to move forward this year we would be in the same situation as last year in a best-case scenario, and in the worst-case scenario just not get the leadership we need and would have to make this call very last minute to not have a troop. This is not fair to the volunteers or the girls.
Celebration Church will be working during this next year to recruit leadership and to make sure that each new leadership member has time to be trained and ask any questions that they need to. Hopefully, the AHG Troop will be able to continue during the 2025/2026 Troop Year.
We want to thank each and every one of you, the parents of our members, for allowing us to be part of your daughter’s lives during their time with our troop so far. Hopefully, once the troop can be up and running again you will rejoin and continue your journey with American Heritage Girls.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out and let me know!
Thank you again for being part of our AHG Troop for the last five years!
Your AHG Leadership Team
I remain confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. – Psalm 27:13-14