Scout Law:
Reverent
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Theme:
Cub Scouts Give Thanks
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Roundtable
Blog: elkhorncubs.blogspot.com
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LDS Scouting
Handbook:
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Upcoming
Events
Basic
Training
Old
Ephraim: Saturday, Oct. 21, 8 am - 12 pm, 940 Three Point Ave,
Logan
Cub
Pow Wow
Saturday,
November 4, 10 am – 11:30 am, Providence South Stake Center (360 E
450 N, Millville).
Come
learn about Native American culture; crafts, legends, and dancing.
Bear dens will pass of requirements for the Beat of the Drum elective
adventure. Cost is $2.50 per boy in advance, or $3 at the door.
Please preregister online at trappertrails.org.
Leave
No Trace Trainer Course
Learn
more about the principles of Leave No Trace, and how to provide
leadership and training for others. Friday, Oct. 20 - Saturday,
Oct. 21, Ogden Service Center
Baden
Powell University
BPU
is advanced training for all Scout leaders. Choose from a
variety of classes, such as Dutch Oven Cooking, Blue & Gold
Banquets, knot tying, neckerchief slides, den discipline, and more!
Saturday, Nov. 11, Weber State University
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Training
Highlight: World Friendship Fund
Throught the
World Friendship Fund, voluntary contributions of Scouts and leaders
are transformed into cooperative projects that help Scouting
associations in other countries to strengthen and extend their
Scouting programs. The World Friendship Fund gives the youth members
of the Boy Scouts of America an opportunity to help fellow Scouts who
are in need of their support. It teaches Scouts that Scouting is
global. Since the inception of the World Friendship Fund, American
Scouts and leaders have voluntarily donated more than $11 million to
these self-help activities.
The World
Friendship Fund was developed during the closing days of World War
II. At that time, there was a great need to rebuild Scouting in
those nations that had been wracked by war and were just emerging
from the shadows of totalitarianism.
Over the years,
this fund has provided Scouts from around the world with Scouting
literature, uniforms, summer camp equipment, computers, and other
Scouting-related supplies.
Collections for
the World Friendship Fund can be organized during camporees,
Roundtable meetings, summer camping programs, blue and gold banquets,
or any other scouting activity. Webelos can pass off Arrow of Light
requirement Building a Better World 6B: Set up an exhibit at a pack
meeting to share information about the World Friendship Fund.
World Friendship
Fund brochures, posters, and labels are available through your local
council. Units that participate will receive a certificate from the
International Department.
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Do You Know?
Declaration of Religious Principle. The Boy Scouts of America
maintains that no person can grow into the best kind of citizen
without recognizing an obligation to God and, therefore, acknowledges
the religious element in the development of youth members. However,
the BSA is absolutely nonsectarian in its attitude toward that
religious development. Its policy is that the organization or
institution with which youth members are connected shall give
definite attention to their religious life. Only adults willing to
subscribe to this declaration of principle and the Bylaws of the Boy
Scouts of America shall be entitled to certificates of leadership.
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Award
Highlight: Religious Emblems
"A
Scout is Reverent." All Scouts show this by being faithful
in their duty to God. Some Scouts go further and give special
service. This faithfulness and service can help them to qualify
for a religious emblem in the Duty to God program.
To
encourage members to grow stronger in their faith, religious groups
have developed the religious emblems programs. The Boy Scout of
America has approved of these programs and allows the emblems to be
worn on the official uniform. The various religious groups
administer the programs.
Do
Scouts have to earn the religious emblem for their faith? No.
Not every youth is a member of a faith group, and not all faith
groups offer religious emblems. Earning one is not a
requirement. Earning the religious emblem of one's faith
is an optional requirement in the Duty to God adventures.
The
Emblems
A
majority of religious groups support the religious emblems for
the Cub Scouting program. The youth religious emblems are
conferred on a Scout by his religious leader after the Scout has
completed the curriculum for the award. More information can be
found at www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Awards/ReligiousAwards.aspx or
in the Duty to God brochure (found at the Scout Shop).
Most
of the religious emblems for Cub Scouts consist of a bar pin and
pendant, and are worn on the uniform above the left pocket on formal
occasions. The adult religious recognition award is presented
by nomination only. The recognition is presented to
worthy adults for their outstanding service to youth both
through their religious institution and one of the national
youth agencies. Recipients of these awards are unaware
that they are being nominated.
Youth
may not need to belong to a religious institution to earn that
institution's award. It depends on the religion. Please
check the eligibility requirements for a specific religious program.
Religious
Emblem Recognition Square Knot
The
religious emblem square knot may be worn on the uniform over the left
pocket by youth who have completed the requirements for
their religious emblem awards. Only one knot is awarded.
However, one or more miniature devices are affixed to the knot to
indicate which level(s) of the award the youth has completed
(Cub Scout, Boys Scout, Venturer). Scouts can earn all levels
of their religious emblems program.
The
cloth, silver knot on purple patch may be worn by youth or by an
adult member who earned the knot as a youth, above the left pocket.
The
cloth, purple knot on silver patch may be worn by adult members
presented with the recognition, above the left pocket.
Adults
may wear both knots if they satisfy qualifying criteria.
LDS
Religious Emblem Program
Requirements
for the LDS Religious Emblem may be found in the Faith
in God for Boys handbook. There are 7
requirements, denoted by the square knot emblem.
Requirements
for the LDS Adult can be found online at
https://www.lds.org/callings/aaronic-priesthood/leader-resources/scouting/on-my-honor/adult-recognition?lang=eng&_r=1
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Resource
Highlight: BSA Duty to God websites
Further
information on the Duty to God program and the religious emblems is
available at these websites:
*BSA
Duty to God flyer: www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-879_WB.pdf
*Overview
of Duty to God:
http://scoutingmagazine.org/2015/02/new-requirements-explore-duty-to-god
*Guide
to Awards and Insignia: www.scouting.org/Media/InsigniaGuide.aspx
*P.R.A.Y.
Publishing: www.praypub.org
*LDS-BSA
Relationships: www.ldsbsa.org
*National
Catholic Committee on Scouting: www.nccs-bsa.org
*Presbyterian
Church:
*National
Lutheran Association on Scouting:
*National
Association of United Methodist Scouters:
www.naums.org
*National
Jewish Committee on Scouting: www.jewishscouting.org
*National
Islamic Committee on Scouting: http://islamicsouncilonscouting.com
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