Rainbow Spirit

In this issue, Check out our "Did you Know?", the form is posted to fill out for the Ritual Program, make sure to check out the Sunday Comics and our Fundraisers! Always remember to go check out our SC IORG Facebook group and our SC IORG Friends and Family Facebook page for more photos!

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Tentative Jurisdictional Calendar with Deadlines

Feb 15 – Annual Reports Due

Feb 17 – Pledge School of Instruction and Sock Hop Cayce Masonic Lodge

Mar 16 – Faith and Hope District Rainbow Road Trip (Columbia)

Mar 15 – Grand Assembly Session Registration sent to Assemblies

Mar 23 or Apr 6 – Subordinate Assembly Installation of Officers

Apr 10 – Ad Sales Deadline

Apr 20 – Charity District Official Visit (Summerville)

May 1 – Grand Appointments Recommendations Deadline

May 4 – Color Run (location to be announced)

May 15 – Grand Representatives’ Reports Deadline

May 15 – Grand Assembly Session Registration Deadline

May 18 – Scholarship Tea (Laurens)

Jun 1 – Additional Forms Deadline

Jun (26) 27-30 – Grand Assembly Session (Columbia)

Jul 8 – Founder's Day (local observance)

Jul 21-24 – Supreme Assembly Session (Hampton VA)

TBA (Spring) – Grand Officers’ Rehearsal/Grand Representatives’ Meeting

Reminders for your Assembly:

• Submit meeting reports to the Supreme Inspector using the Google Form at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet-kQpdfAUpxFC9gttWjMA3a6fGBtoun2I2ndNk8FjFnqz8w/viewform?usp=sharing
• Turn in Service Hours for Supreme Worthy Advisor Membership and Service Incentive Program. Log your hours at https://forms.gle/LSQRpXwFNRBvrVSV9
• Participate in Grand Worthy Advisors' fundraisers
• Participate in Grand Worthy Associate Advisors' fundraisers
• Encourage your eligible Rainbow Girls to apply for our scholarships. Each girl must email me at PGHope79@aol.com to request the appropriate form. In her email she must indicate her current status (high school senior, first year college, second year college, third year college). She must also be an active Rainbow Girl or a current Grand Officer or Grand Representative. Applications are available until March 16.

• Plan Ad Sales Campaign

Hello everyone! Atlas Here!

Thank you all who attended our CRAVE Winterfest event! I hope you all had a wonderful time with our Rainbow sisters in other jurisdictions!

I also hope to see you at the Sock Hop in February! It’s going to be 50s themed, and you’ll want to dress to impress because we will have a best dressed competition sometime during the event! Before the Hop we will also have a Pledge School of Instruction, so if you know a Pledge girl, make sure to invite her!

We are doing so well visiting different lodges of our legacy! We only need to visit 25 more lodges to reach our goal of visiting all the lodges where Rainbow once stood!

A HUGE round of applause to Summerville, Greenwood, and Newport assemblies for recently initiating (or about to initiate) new girls into Rainbow!

It is a new year! I hope this year brings great joy and comfort to all of you. It is also the middle of our Grand Year! And while we still have a lot more fun and family to experience, it’s important to look back on this past year and see how far we’ve grown– and how much further we can grow.

Remember, you are God’s Masterpiece.

~Atlas and Ashley <3

Hello South Carolina Rainbow Family!

I hope that 2024 began well for you and will be a year of growth and prosperity for South Carolina Rainbow. I was happy to attend a Rainbow initiation on January 13 to welcome three new members into Greenwood Assembly and one new member into Newport Assembly. As always, I told these new members about their Rainbow birthday.

I explained that we celebrate two birthdays: the one on which they were born into their families and the one on which they are born into our Rainbow Family. One of our Grand Worthy Advisor’s watchwords is Family. Our ritual stresses the importance of family in the number of times parents are mentioned. Our lesson of Love encourages us to love every member of our family. Being a part of our Rainbow Family and the larger Masonic Family is important, too. We not only have fun and participate in meetings, fund-raisers, and service projects, but we also share other things. We share the joys of accomplishments as well as anguish of disappointments and sorrows. We encourage each other when we struggle and lend a helping hand when we can.

Our lesson of Fidelity teaches us that others need to be able to have confidence in us.

It teaches us to be truthful, to keep our promises, and to be loyal to each other. Being a

Rainbow Sister means being there for each other though the good times and the bad.

I can think of many times that I have seen active members, Majority members, and adult

workers of Rainbow show that kind of fidelity to each other. I have also been the

recipient of assistance from Master Masons when I've needed it. Being a part of this

Fraternal Family is one of the greatest blessings we can have. Let’s be sure to share it

with others by bringing them into this great Family!

Blessed by being in this Family,

Mrs. Dedra

Hi everyone!

I got to go to Winterfest with Summerville and to the Adult Worker's Seminar in Columbia! I left the Seminar with West Columbia and am having a blast attending their meetings! Where am I heading next?

Hope to see you soon!

<3 Waldo

The Supreme Worthy Advisor Service and Membership Program started on August 1, 2022, and runs until July 2024.

Service Hours can be turned in using the Get Pumped QR code above or this link: https://forms.gle/LSQRpXwFNRBvrVSV9

Red Charm – first-line signer on ONE application or second-line signer on TWO applications

All other charms – Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet are awarded for every 20 hours of community service.

Adults you can participate too! Adults it's $9.50 for you to be able to receive the charm bracelet.

Did you know if you start saving now you could have enough money saved to attend Supreme Assembly in July!

If you start in October bringing $50 to each meeting through May and depositing it into your Assembly account, you would have $800 saved for the trip. Or if you start now and bring $40 and save through the first meeting in July you will also have $800 towards going to Supreme Assembly. Of course, you could also have multi-family yard sales or car washes to help raise the money too.

We would love as many as possible to go to Supreme and we would love to have a Ritual Team to participate! So start saving money and working on your memory work!

Our girls have earned 22 Red Shoes plus 4 more for second line signers, this doesn't include the 4 initiated in January!!

2,567 Service Hours have been turned in!! Have you turned in yours?

The following have earned Red Shoes:

Alyssa A., Kayla H., Maddison A., Aileana Q., Tia S., Anna J. x2, Emma J., Ashley L., Addie H., Summerlyn L. x2, Kirsten K., Navaya N., Peyton S., Elle W., Bell G., Gabriella S-M., Caroline G

The following have completed their bracelets:

Girls: Ashley L., and Madyson A.

Adults: Mrs. Diana, Mrs. Michelle, Mrs. Lauren, Mrs. Marcucci, Ms. Kelley Y.

The second half of the SWA's Service Project is underway! This will also check off blocks on your Rainbow Bingo! The second supreme service project (running August 1, 2023 through July 21, 2024) will honor, show appreciation for, and remember our First Responders who help each of us in so many ways. Care bags should be assembled and delivered to local first responders.

We are busy selling chocolate for cure Sarcoma and looking forward to the Official Visit in April! Hope to see all of you in the Charity District!

What a great night with the Rainbow Girls and Pledge girls. They started the evening off helping the Masons with the Smoke at the lodge mail out. We then went on to have our Pledge meeting and then a Rainbow Meeting. We had two new Pledge girls with us tonight and we read three applications for new Rainbow girls. We also had our Grand Worthy Advisor Ashley with us, and our Grand Deputy Valerie.

Our Parents and Masons are the key to what makes our assembly shine!

January was a month of planning and practicing for Greenwood #33. We were excited to add three new girls to our group on January 13th: Caroline L., TaJayah W., and Jackie R. Planning included ways to sell chocolate for our GWA and set up fundraisers for our own assembly. We will be selling Hash during the month of February with a delivery date to be determined. The girls also came up with the idea to create crafts (earrings, crochet items, etc.) for a booth at the Uptown Greenwood on March 23rd. We are looking forward to the Sock Hop in February.

Happy New Year from West Columbia Assembly. Our last meeting for 2023 was on December 26th. What a bad time to have a meeting!! Addie and Peyton along with Ms. Marcia and Ms. Christie cleaned the lodge upstairs and wiped down the tables in the dining area. We enjoyed dinner together at Zesto's!

We are looking forward to our meeting on January 23. We have lots to talk about and plans to make.

Goose Creek Rainbow has been busy! We helped at Greenwood's Initiation and we are selling Chocolate for cure Sarcoma!

We are collecting food for Harvest Hope Food Bank! We get to check off one of the blocks on the Rainbow Bingo!

We started our year by making cookies at Ronald McDonald House, attended Greenwood's Initiation where we added Ava L. to our Assembly! Welcome Ava! We are so glad you are part of our Assembly. We also had a pot-luck lunch together and went roller skating for our Mystery Trip, cleaned up at our Mason's Breakfast and participated in the Bow Team tryouts. It's been a busy January!!

So much love to all of our Rainbow Sisters,

<3 Newport

Harmony had some fun times in December and January! Hope everyone had a happy holiday season. Following our successful Dinner in the Dark event, we had a Christmas party with a white elephant gift exchange. The girls had a blast. Several Harmony Girls and friends went to the CRAVe Winter Jurisdictional Event! It was cold but so fun. The girls really enjoyed the Fury and seeing all the friends around multiple jurisdictions. Thank you so much for organizing this amazing event! During our Ritualistic meeting each month, we have been instructing our new members on their new stations and walking them through the floor work. So much fun learning new things! In January, our Worthy Advisor Jasmine L planned an event to write Valentine’s Day Cards to Veterans and military. We had some new visitors and pledge girls helping so it was a lot of fun. The girls made a lot of great cards for brave men and we were able to work together on one of our Bingo items. The girls had fun in the Amaranth Installation this month. They did a wonderful job on the Rose Ceremony! The Harmony girls served lunch and dessert to the members of Amaranth. They also cleaned up so the event went smoothly for our Amaranth family.

Hope Shines has been busy working on our Rainbow Bingo. And we forgot to take photos!!! Maybe next time!

Thursday February 15th Summerville will be initiating 3 new members! Come join us at 6:30 for Pledge with the Rainbow meeting to follow!

SCAMM is in the beginning stages of a project to assist with funds for scholarships. SCAMM is asking for donations of men’s button-down shirts that can be turned into aprons to keep food off of the young ladies' beautiful gowns. If you have a shirt from someone special, just let us know when the shirt is turned in so we can get that specific apron back to them. We will be gladly accepting men’s button-down shirts at the next few jurisdictional get-togethers like the school of instruction. The aprons will go on sale as soon as the finished products have been created. Please feel free to reach out to Lynn Carter or Heather Kamphaus for any questions or concerns.

This year we are visiting all of our assemblies where we currently meet or where we use to meet! We have a total of 137 visits by girls, Majority Members, and Past Mother Advisors in some cases, to 39 Assemblies!

Originally we planned on doing 70 visits towards our legacy but amazingly surpassed the 70 in no time at all! Then we were going to do 70 visits for our legacy and 70 for our future but as you see we have almost accomplished that as well! You are AWESOME! Now each color represents 8 Assemblies to get all the colors for our graphic above! So please help us finish visiting all of our Legacy Assemblies!

We still need to visit the following and grab a photo: Friendship #1 in Williston, Marion #4 in Marion, Florence #5 in Florence, Anderson #7 in Anderson, Columbia #10 (We will be doing our Rainbow Road Trip at this one!), Brewerton #12 in Ware Shoals, Beaufort #13 in Beaufort, Barwell #17 in Barnwell, Lake City #18 in Scranton, Wagener #22 in Wagener, Kingstree # 30 in Kingstree, Whitmire # 31 in Whitmire, Hopewell #35 in Jackson, Rose Croix #41 in Spartanburg, Oconee #49 in Walhalla, and Socastee/Hope #53 in Murrells Inlet

We still need photos of: Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Goose Creek, Dentsville, and Harmony. I believe in us :D!!

Yellow Circles are Assemblies that need to be visited, Green Circles are current assemblies, and Stars are Assemblies that have been visited and the color corresponds to the list above

How are you doing filling in spaces? Do any of our Assemblies have Bingos yet? Do any of the girls have a Bingo yet? Can't wait to hear!

Mother Advisors, If you have girls who have said ritual parts towards our "Remembering Our Rainbow" Ritual Program please fill out the form using the link here: https://forms.gle/rhcWqcr4foE2FhsR8

Still looking for the owner of these, please contact Mom Michelle if they belong to you! Thanks!

On December 30th The CRAVe (The Carolinas - North and South, and The Virginias - Virginia and West and Tennessee too) all met together at Carowinds for Winterfest for a Jurisdictional fun event. For our first ever The CRAVe event everyone endured the cold and had a great time! Looking forward to what is planned for our event next year! Make sure to check out our Facebook group SC IORG and Facebook page SC IORG Friends and Family for more photos!

I hope you have been corresponding with your counterparts and are gathering information for your reports. Reports are due May 15. We will be sending reminders every month. Please contact me (marciawadford@gmail.com or 803-600-7069) if you have not received information from your counterpart. I will contact the director in that state.

Hope to see you at the Sock Hop in February.

Rainbow Love

Marcia Wadford

Co-director of Grand Representatives in South Carolina

We had a great MA/Adult Workers Seminar in Dentsville!

Don't forget to work on YPP and ask your Mother Advisor for the information on the modules so we can get everyone updated through all the modules. Looking forward to the second half of the year! Hope to see you all at the Pledge School of Instruction and then the Sock Hop on February 17th!

What a great afternoon with the girls who tried out for the Bow Team! We are so excited to work with these girls for Ritual Competition in Hampton! Announcements will be made at the Sock Hop!

Editor and Publisher: Michelle Lusk

sciorgmmpr@gmail.com

Supreme Charity and Supreme Inspector: Dedra Hart

PGHope79@aol.com

This publication acknowledges allegiance to the Supreme Assembly, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, whose seat of authority is in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA; of which the late Reverend W. Mark Sexson was the founder; of which Mrs. Kay Letterman is the Supreme Worthy Advisor; and to the Grand Jurisdiction of South Carolina of which Ashley Lusk is Grand Worthy Advisor and Mrs. Dedra A. Hart is Supreme Inspector