Scout Law: Reverent
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Theme: Passport to Other Lands
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Elkhorn District Blog: elkhorncubs.blogspot.com
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LDS Scouting Handbook: https://www.lds.org/bc/
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Upcoming Events
Basic Training:
Elkhorn District: Saturday, January 14, 8-11:00 am, 110 S Main, Millville
Old Juniper District: Thursday, February 16, 6:30-7:30 pm, 155 W 400 N, Smithfield
Old Ephraim District: Saturday, February 18, 8-9 am, 940 Three Point Ave, Logan
Outdoor Ethics Training: 6 pm, Friday, January 20 - 6 pm, Saturday, January 21, Ogden Service Center. Cost is $35 before January 15, $40 after. Covers 3 meals and materials. Open to all Scouters and Scouts age 14+. Other training dates are March 24-25, May 12-13, and October 20-21.
Scouting for Food: Bags will be issued at the March Roundtable meeting.
Cub Swim:
Tiger/Wolf/Bear swim days will be Friday, April 14 (6, 7, or 8 pm) and Saturday, April 22 (12, 1, 2, 3 or 4 pm). Attendees will complete Floats & Boats, Spirit of the Water, and Salmon Run.
Webelos swim days will be Saturday, April 15 (12, 1, 2, 3, or 4 pm) and Friday, April 21 (6, 7, or 8 pm). Attendees will complete Aquanaut Adventure.
Cost is $2/scout, bring swimsuit and towel. Register online.
Cub STEM Activity Days: April 15 or May 27, Camp Fife. Registration begins at 9 am. Cost is $25 per scout (Adults free), lunch provided. Participants will experience a day of dynamic adventures with hands-on experiments. Adventure zones include: robots, solar van, levers & pulleys, gravity, rockets, bb guns, and geocaching.
Scout-a-rama: Saturday, April 30, Weber State Fairgrounds. More details to come.
Woodbadge: March 9-11 and March 23-25. Wood Badge is a leadership training course which delivers high quality skills and techniques for leaders in all areas of Scouting. It draws from a wide range of sources within and beyond the bounds of Scouting to model the best techniques for developing leadership and teamwork among both young people and adults. Find more details and register online at https://www.trappertrails.
Commissioner's College: Saturday, March 11, 8 am - 3 pm, Ogden LDS Institute. $15 before March 4th, $20 after. For all commissioners, Roundtable staff or interested scouters.
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Important Notice: Cub Scout Advancement Modifications Made
The BSA has announced modifications to adventure requirements in response to feedback from den leaders who have run the new Cub Scouting program for a year. Dens may begin using the modified requirements immediately as they begin working on their next adventure.
There is a 57 pg document detailing all the changes atwww.scouting.org/
http://www.scouting.org/
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Training Highlight: Duty to God
Each Cub Scout pack across the United States is different. We have different leaders, different chartered organizations and access to different resources. Each family involved in Cub Scouting is unique as well with regards to its faith.
"The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God and, therefore, recognizes the religious element in the training of the member, but it is absolutely nonsectarian in its attitude toward that religious training. Its policy is that the home, in conjunction with the organization or group with which a member is connected, will give definite attention to religious life." -BSA Declaration of Religious Principle
The Cub Scout Duty to God adventures help the Scout become more aware of his Duty to God and what it means to be reverent.
Families are encouraged to help their Scout complete the Duty to God adventure for his rank and sign off on its completion. However, not all families have the time or the ability to do this. A portion of the requirements may also be completed in den meetings if desired.
Depending on their rank, in completing their Duty to God adventures, boys will participate in:
*Worship experiences
*Service projects
*Visits to religious sites or monuments where people might show reverence
*Learning about the faith beliefs of their family
*Opportunities to study people in history who have shown great faith in God
Interfaith activities are included in the Cub Scout Duty to God adventures, but a Scout's participation in them is primarily up to the boy and his family. Boys can complete requirements by attending either a service for their own faith, or an interfaith activity.
How can leaders evaluate a Scout for his Duty to God adventure, especially if they are of different faiths? Consider asking the Scout how his family or faith group defines duty to God and how he is living up to that definition. Let the Scout speak and share. Remember that the focus is on the Scout's understanding of his duty to God, not the leader's concept of what it should be.
Please note: There have been changes to the Duty to God adventure requirements for each rank. You can find the updated requirements at scouting.org/programupdates.
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Patch of the Month: 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. The BSA Duty to God program is introduced in the Duty to God adventure pages in the Tiger and Wolf handbooks. Earning the religious emblem of one's faith is an optional requirement in the Duty to God adventures for Bear and Webelos Scouts.
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/
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.
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Resource of the Month: 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/
*Overview of Duty to God: http://scoutingmagazine.org/
*Guide to Awards and Insignia: www.scouting.org/Media/
*P.R.A.Y. Publishing: www.praypub.org
*LDS-BSA Relationships: www.ldsbsa.org
*National Catholic Committee on Scouting: www.nccs-bsa.org
*National Jewish Committee on Scouting: www.jewishscouting.org
*National Islamic Committee on Scouting: http://
