The Guiding Star Project Logo meets Guiding Star Duluth

The Guiding Star Project officially affiliates with its mother organization, Guiding Star Duluth!

Many of you may not realize that The Guiding Star Project actually got it’s start in Duluth, MN under another name, Guiding Star Duluth in 2009. If you’ve read through some of our information or know a little bit of the back story you might know something about Duluth being our home base, but might have been confused about how that organization fit with the mission of The Guiding Star Project to create centers all over this beautiful country. Guiding Star Duluth has been working to create such a center and build up cooperation between pro-women and pro-life groups in Duluth, but their efforts have remained mostly local to northern MN.  The nationwide scope of The Guiding Star Project is beyond their organizational goals and thus GSP was born out of a desire to bring this vision beyond Duluth’s city limits and start the work of creating these centers elsewhere as well.
Up until just this week The Guiding Star Project and Guiding Star Duluth have been separate organizations with no official relationship (although The Guiding Star Project very clearly was a direct result of the work being done in Duluth and both groups have always maintained a close working relationship).
The Board of Directors for both organizations found it in our best interests to spell out the relationship and thus it was decided for Duluth to officially become the first Guiding Star City under the national scope of The Guiding Star Project!

What Affiliation Means

Affiliation will be the means that GSP will work with various cities around the country wanting to create a Guiding Star Center in their own communities. We will be able to offer guidance and support to these cities as they begin the process of bringing together the various organizations that will form a Center.
Since Duluth has been writing the book on how to go about this often hard work, our work with them will be different than any other city. We will take the valuable lessons that have been learned there and use them to create the Guidebook for all other cities to follow. We will work with Duluth to continue developing the language and approaches that are most effective, but we recognize the leadership and hard work that has gone into Guiding Star Duluth and do not presume to know just yet how best to reach our goals in that city.
We will work to assist GS Duluth with things such as an increased media presence and to draw national attention to the truly spectacular work being done on their part to bring together these various groups.

Beyond Duluth

It remains the vision of GSP to begin affiliating with cities across the country in the next year to provide the guidance in creating Guiding Star Centers. If you are interested in supporting us further with this mission, please consider financial support. We are expanding our team and are at a critical time of bringing on the professionals necessary to meet our goals. You can help us do that.

Check out Duluth’s New Pages!

We are still working to transfer the website and other related information from Duluth over to the new GSP Duluth page, so please be patient as we fill in information. But for a glimpse of what we’re working on go to: www.theguidingstarproject.com/duluth and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GuidingStarDuluth
 
We’re so excited for what this collaboration of our two groups can do. Expect nothing less than drastic societal change!