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Every girl starts somewhere.

American Heritage Girls at New Hope in Clovis. Faith, service, life skills and friendships for girls K through 12, on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, 6:30 to 8 PM.

Troop CA-4620 girls in their American Heritage Girls sashes standing with their leaders at a New Hope ceremony
Who
Girls, K through 12
When
1st & 3rd Tuesdays · 6:30 to 8 PM
How long
90 minutes, twice a month
Where
New Hope, Clovis

How old is your daughter?

Pick her age. AHG sorts girls into five levels, and each one has its own uniform, its own badges and its own way of growing up.

Choose her age
The Pathfinder uniform

Pathfinder, ages 5 to 6

She starts here, looked after by leaders and by the older girls in the troop. Pathfinders follow their curiosity and make their first friends.

The Tenderheart uniform

Tenderheart, ages 6 to 9

She earns her first badges and starts exploring the world around her, growing in faith and life skills through troop activities and service.

The Explorer uniform

Explorer, ages 9 to 12

She takes on more responsibility and grows in every part of the program, with chances to serve and to lead the girls behind her.

The Pioneer uniform

Pioneer, ages 12 to 14

She works out who she is in Christ, explores what she's good at, and starts leading rather than being led.

The Patriot uniform

Patriot, ages 14 to 18

She learns the skills adulthood asks for and runs things herself, with leaders alongside as facilitators rather than instructors.

Ages 6, 9, 12 and 14 sit on a boundary between two levels. The troop places her by school grade, so ask if you're not sure.

That's where she'd start. Next, bring her on a Tuesday.

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She'll do things that surprise you

Plenty of badges are earned outdoors. Girls paddle, climb, navigate, camp and come home telling you about it.

American Heritage Girls paddling kayaks on open water
AdventureOut on the water, paddling her own boat.
An American Heritage Girl crossing a high ropes bridge in a harness
NerveHigh ropes, and she did it anyway.
Two American Heritage Girls reading a topographic map together on the grass
SkillA real map, a real plan, no phone.

Photos: American Heritage Girls national imagery, used with permission. Not Troop CA-4620.

The girls she'll still know in high school

A girl can join at five and still be here at seventeen, in the same troop, with the same families. By then she's the one the little ones are copying.

Older girls lead the younger ones on purpose.

American Heritage Girls national photo, used with permission. Not Troop CA-4620.

Three American Heritage Girls in badge sashes laughing with their arms around each other
A Patriot-level American Heritage Girl wearing a sash filled with earned badges

Read the sash of a girl about to graduate

Every badge on it was worked for. You can see what she learned, where she served and what she stuck at.

  • She learns. Cooking, sewing, first aid, money sense, the outdoors, and a long list she picks herself.
  • She serves. Local outreach, family support, and troop projects the girls plan themselves.
  • She leads. By the top levels she is running the unit while leaders step back into support.
  • She grows. The program is rooted in faith in Christ, so the character work and the skills arrive together.

American Heritage Girls national photo, used with permission. Not Troop CA-4620.

Thirteen years is a long way off. A Tuesday evening isn't.

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Troop CA-4620 at New Hope

These are our girls, on our campus. The troop meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. Trail Life Troop CA-4620 is a separate troop with its own leadership and charter, and it meets the same evening.

American Heritage Girls Troop CA-4620 at a recognition ceremony on the New Hope stage
Troop CA-4620 on the New Hope stage
Troop CA-4620 members in their sashes on the New Hope sanctuary stage with their leaders
In their sashes, with their leaders
American Heritage Girls Troop CA-4620 and Trail Life Troop CA-4620 together on the New Hope stage at a joint ceremony
Joint ceremony with Trail Life

Building women of integrity

A one-minute look at American Heritage Girls, produced by the national organization.

The next four Tuesdays she could come

The troop meets twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month.

  • Nov3Tue
  • Nov17Tue
  • Dec1Tue
  • Dec15Tue
What does it cost?

American Heritage Girls charges a national membership fee and each troop sets its own dues on top of it, so the figure moves year to year. There's a uniform too. Ask the troop what a new girl needs to start and they'll give you this year's numbers rather than a guess.

Does she need a uniform to visit?

No. Come in what she's already wearing. The uniform matters once she joins, not the first time she walks in.

What if we can only make some of the meetings?

The troop meets twice a month, so the calendar is lighter than most weeknight programs. Girls miss meetings for sport and family and pick it back up.

How do we join?

Registration is handled by American Heritage Girls, not by New Hope, and cannot be completed on this page. It starts with an interest form on AHG's own site rather than an instant sign-up, and the troop follows up from there.

Because those forms live on AHG's system, anything you enter there, including your daughter's details, is governed by American Heritage Girls' privacy policy (opens in a new tab) rather than ours. Questions about registration go to AHG or to the troop. Questions about New Hope go to our office.

Come and see a Tuesday first either way. Ask us and we'll walk you through it.

Bring your daughter

Come and look before you decide anything. The leaders will walk you through what happens on a first night.

4620 E. Nees Ave, Clovis

When
1st & 3rd Tuesdays · 6:30 to 8 PM
Where to park
The main lot off Preuss Drive.
First time?
Wear whatever she is comfortable in. A uniform matters once she joins, not the first night she walks in.

New Hope Community Church

4620 E. Nees Ave, Clovis, CA 93611

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Registration. Joining American Heritage Girls is handled by AHG, not by New Hope, and cannot be completed on this page. Information you enter on AHG's forms is governed by their privacy policy (opens in a new tab), not ours.

Photography. Images credited as national imagery are published by American Heritage Girls and used with permission. They show AHG members from troops across the country. The photographs under Troop CA-4620 at New Hope are our own girls, here in Clovis.

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