Sharla Merrick, our Cub Roundtable Commissioner, led a discussion last Thursday about this Saturday’s District Rocket Launch. Here is what she reports from that conversation:
WHERE: Camp Belzer, 6102 N Boy Scout Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46226.
TIME: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Open House. Come when you can.)
We need personnel to man the following activities for the whole time or shifts (contact Jeff Heck):
Firecrafter: fire demo,
Troops: cooking,
Provided: Archery and BB gun shooting.
This event is a Pack event. This means that the Pack must either provide 2-deep leadership for the boys unaccompanied by parents or that a parent must accompany the Cub Scout. Put simply neither Council or District is set up to handle unaccompanied Cub Scouts.
For our traditional scout units, we have received this request for support from our sister After-School Program units at Northminster Presbyterian Church. Please share this with your unit or your own clergy:
Dear Central Indiana Chaplains:Pack at Northminster Presbyterian
Please- Help us get scouts “on the bus”
Crossroads of America has a growing “After school Program” in many IPS Schools
This is an outreach and diversity focused mission to serve the undeserved and help build future leaders and scouting programs in the community.
Andrew Bowman, Kristin Pace and I are asking each of to to appeal to your congregations to find people and transportation to help get scouts to after school programs in the Indy area
Clear Vision: You have a church bus.. you have a driver.. you pick up scouts at schools and take them to after-school events and bring them back to school after the event.
This is an excellent use of church bus and church member time in a short focused “mission”
It also exposes your church and your members to scouting programs.
Why? The parents of these scouts are not able because they are working.
Why? IPS is not budgeted to do so.
Why? Because we are called to serve our community and scouting
Why? Keeps scouting and your church visible in the schools and in the comunity
Thank you to all of our volunteers who actively worked to support our back-to-school night efforts last night. The volunteerism and effort were noticeable, particularly from some of our Boy Scout troops that did not have an immediate benefit from the effort.
We have a handful of units that still have not completed their recruitment and turned in numbers.
Unfortunately we are still 100 new scouts below our target at this moment.
This bad news is tempered with the list of possible scouts that were generated in our marketing efforts leasing up to last night. We had identified families who would be interested in scouts. We have a lot of leads on these particular scouts we could still recruit.
District still is optimistic that we can make our target for new recruits this season. It will require more effort.
Just a reminder after Thursday’s sign-up night, the applications and enrollment fees for Council, boys life and related costs should be delivered to Three Wisemen Brewing Company in Broad Ripple.
The other day I posted an article about how to organize a big unit back to school night for Thursday.
Small units are asking whether they need to have a full meeting like in years past. We are proposing that you follow the same pattern as big units except have one person follow the same order of conversation. It would not require separate stations be set up.
Long-Time BSA staffer Scott Teare of Michigan took over the General Secretary of the World Organization of the Scouting Movement in January 2013. In this video he talks about the Scouting movement’s effort to convert children from consumers of play, such as video games or Little League players in an establish league run by adults, to initiators of play. The kids become responsible for creating their own fun. In the end they learn leadership and fellowship.
Could you please forward this message to all scouters that will be assisting at North Star District Elementary Schools with recruiting?
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Thank you for volunteering to assist district packs with their recruiting efforts this fall. I have outlined the program for Thursday Read the rest of this entry »
Frank Maynard runs a well-read blog called Bobwhite Blather. He is a long-standing Troop Committee Chair. He has a wonderful article about recruiting ideas that you have not tried. Give it a read.
Thank you to all of our volunteers who actively worked to support our back-to-school night efforts last night. The volunteerism and effort were noticeable, particularly from some of our Boy Scout troops that did not have an immediate benefit from the effort.
Just a reminder after Thursday’s sign-up night, the applications and enrollment fees for Council, boys life and related costs should be delivered to Three Wisemen Brewing Company in Broad Ripple.
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