SCOUT SUNDAY THIS WEEK AT ST. MARK’S
All members of the Troop 398 family are invited as we celebrate Scout Sunday this Sunday Feb 12th at St. Marks. We plan to sit together as a group at both the 8:30 and 11:00 am services. I will need Scouts to serve as greeters and ushers before and during the service. We have been asked to present the colors during both services. All Boy Scouts and their parents are encouraged to attend one or both services as an expression of our appreciation for the support we receive from the staff and members of St. Marks. If you have a Cub Scout brother or a Girl Scout sister, be sure to bring them along.
I need at least 15 scouts at each service to handle our part of the program. Scouts need to show up about 30 minutes prior to each service so we can get organized. Please email me before Sunday and let me know how many from your family will be attending and which service so I will know how many seats to allocate in the Worship Center.
Wear your Class A uniform. This will count as service hours.
SCOUTING FOR FOOD THIS SATURDAY
Start collecting non-perishable items of food and bring it all in to the Eagle’s Nest this Sat., Feb 11th from 10 to 11 pm. We will put it all in my truck for deliver it to the collection point. Those who participate will receive service hour credit and a patch.
REGULAR TROOP MEETING MONDAY NIGHT
A patrol cooking contest is planned – all members of the winning patrol who are present will receive a prize.
SUPER BOWL SUNDAY FUND RAISER
Great job to all who sold tickets and worked during the week before and the weekend! It looks like we beat last years sales by over $1,000 – by last Monday we had collected over $11,500. We were still getting our numbers together, but we are hoping for a profit of $5,000 to $6,000. If anyone is interested, we have some left over – a few Turkey breasts , pork butts, maybe 4 lbs of pork and 9 slabs of ribs. If no one wants it, we’ll freeze it for later use.
LASER TAG – FEB 17
Laser tag has been scheduled for Feb 17th. We will meet at the Eagle’s Nest at 10 PM on Friday night and go to Laser Quest in Nashville. The cost is $35/person if we have a minimum of 30 people and this includes pizzas. Guests are welcome. We split into two groups and alternate playing 15 minute games from midnight till 6:00 AM. Scouts will be ready to be picked up at 7:00 AM at the Eagle’s Nest. Email me if you want to attend, but cannot make it to the meeting Monday night.
EAGLE COURT OF HONOR – FEB. 18
Matt Fowler will receive his Eagle Award at a special Court of Honor at 2:00 PM on Feb. 18th in the Worship Center at St. Mark’s. Reception will follow. Everyone is invited to share in Matt’s achievement.
GOD AND COUNTRY
We’ve got a good group who have signed up for the God and Country program. The sign-up sheet will come down after this Monday’s meeting so be sure to sign up if you have not done so. You will be notified of the time and location of the first meeting.
TROOP VENTURE PROGRAM
Troop 398 is implementing a “Venture Program” to supplement our other troop activities. The venture program purpose is to offer alternative activities for the older scouts. The program is designed to identify medium to high adventure activities that our troop does not typically do. Program participation is limited to scouts who are at least 13 yrs old and a First Class Scout and is also focused on those scouts that have already earned the Eagle Rank and still have time remaining before their 18th birthday. The program is also appropriate for those young Eagle scouts who have recently reached the age of 18 but want to stay involved in troop activities and are registered leaders. This program does not replace regular troop and patrol activities. Scouts will remain involved with their respective patrols and must maintain a level of troop participation in order to attend the venturing program activities. The venturing program is only a supplement to our troop activities to increase the regular involvement of the older scouts by introducing more age appropriate and challenging activities. The program will be a lot of fun and challenging. The program will seek to have a venturing outing every quarter. The weeks leading up to the activity will be used to train and learn the skills necessary to safely complete the venturing activity. The additional focus for the program is to emphasize leadership skills and scouting principles. Scout leadership will be rotated each quarter to allow maximum participation and inclusion of scouts in leadership positions. We hope that the program results in a more confident and competent young leaders.
The first activity will be focused on wilderness survival. The first meeting will occur on February 13. There will also be an opportunity to earn the Wilderness Survival merit badge for those what wish to earn it, but there will be much more to the activity than just merit badge requirements. This activity will culminate with a 2 – 3 day survival outing in late March/early April guaranteed to test the mental and physical endurance of the scouts. All activities will have the appropriate number of training adult leadership and safety will always take priority.
The scouts will determine the activities going forward, but some activities discussed have been rappelling, bicycle hike in Cades Cove, extreme hiking and backpacking, leadership confidence course on a military base, an Appalachian Trail experience. We are only limited by our imagination.
There is a signup sheet on the board in the Eagle’s Nest. You can also contact Les Gray at lesgray@comcast.net if you are interested. More information will be coming regarding the time and location of the first meeting.
Les D. Gray
Gray CPA, PLLC
201 East Main Street, Ste 460
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
615.429.5216
ORDER OF THE ARROW ELECTION
O/A elections will be held Feb. 20th. We need a good turn-out - at least half of the troop must be present to conduct the election.
Eligibility Criteria: Adults under 21 and all scouts must have achieved the First Class rank or higher. All
members must have experienced at least 15 nights of Boy Scout camping within the past two calendar years, including one, but no more than one, long term camp of 5 or 6 nights. The remaining 9 or 10 nights must consist of overnight, weekend or other short term camping. Cabin camping was counted. Backpacking trips, regardless of length are counted as short term camping. The following Scouts are eligible – contact me if you feel you should be on the list:
Troop 398 O/A Eligibility
(Includes camping from 02/09/10-02/09/12)
Allen, Jim
Beckman, Spencer
Carey, David
Ceder, Kyle
Ervin, Connor
Honey, Ben
Hopkins, Ross
Jacobs, Mitchell
Ott, Cole
Phillips, Samuel
Siler, Jeremy
Walker, Sean
Wermert, Michael
ADULT SAILING TRAINING
Learn the skills needed to conduct a weekend sailing activity at Boxwell's new and improved Pfeffer Boat Harbor using the new American 14.6 and Aqua Finn Sailboats. There will be 3 hours of classroom time and 8.5 hours of hands on Sailboat training and sailing.
Adult Sailing Training Dates for 2012
March 16 - 17, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. thru Friday and 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Cost: School Fee is $45.00 per person. Includes meals Saturday, boat rental use, Cubworld cabin camping and materials.
Limit: Limit of 20 participants (Adult Only Training)
Contact Information:
Do you have questions? Contact us at (615) 809-6367 or by email: james.a.whitehead@us.army.mil
For more information and the registration form, go to http://www.mtcbsa.org/assets/forms/HighAdventureTrainingForms/AdultSailingSchool2012.pdf
CALENDAR CHANGES FROM THE PLC
Order of the Arrow election will be Feb. 20th
Troop Court of Honor and Summer Camp Kick-Off was moved to March 12th
American Minute with Bill Federer
Feb. 8 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell &
the Boy Scouts of America
The Boys Scouts of America was incorporated FEBRUARY 8, 1910.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell began the movement in England two years prior.
A hero of the South African Boer Wars, Sir Baden-Powell's troops were besieged 200 days by an overwhelming army, but thanks to his resourcefulness, his men were saved.
The Boy Scouts are now the largest voluntary youth movement in the world, with membership over 25 million.
In the pamphlet "Scouting & Christianity," 1917, Baden-Powell wrote:
"Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity."
President Calvin Coolidge wrote to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Washington, DC, May 1, 1926:
"The boy on becoming a scout binds himself on his honor to do his best...'To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the scout law...To help other people at all times...To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight'...
Members must promise to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent...
It would be a perfect world if everyone exemplified these virtues in daily life...
Those who attempt to live in opposition to these standards...become slaves of their own evil doing, realizing the Scriptural assertion that they who sin are the servants of sin and that the wages of sin is death."
President Dwight Eisenhower stated on the 50th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, June 1, 1960:
"That is the great thing about Scouting...We read in our Bibles the Parable of the Good Samaritan...They individually and collectively begin to think of their nation in part as a 'good Samaritan,' doing the decent thing in this world...
Scouting is indeed doing something...vital to our vigor as a nation based upon a religious concept."
President George H.W. Bush stated at James Madison High School, Vienna, Virginia, March 28, 1989:
"People wonder and talk about...the Thousand Points of Light?...Helping some kid that may be tempted to use narcotics...A church group doing something...It's the Red Cross...It is the Boy Scouts...It is Christian Athletes...Voluntarism."
On July 25, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge addressed a gathering of Boy Scouts in New York headed to Copenhagen:
"The three fundamentals of scouthood are reverence for nature...reverence for law...and reverence for God.
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Doubters do not achieve."
President Coolidge concluded:
"Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is part of an unending plan."
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Troop New Feb. 2
Super Bowl Sunday Fund Raiser
Good job! Ticket sales are close to $9,000 which is about $1,000 more than we had at this time last year! If we have the same levels of non-ticket sales on Sunday, we are looking at another record year.
Now all we have to do is cook and package 120 pork butts, 50 turkey breasts, and 214 slabs of ribs!
Mike Holtman and I will begin cooking at 9 PM Thursday night. Dane Carey and Dennis Harden will join us Friday. We will continue to cook as long as necessary on Sat. We need plenty of help starting Sat at 9:00 AM until we get everything packaged. Sunday starting at 7:00 AM, we need help moving the product into the church in order to get set up before the 8:30AM service. We need plenty of help in Class A uniform starting at 9:00 AM to hand out the orders to our customers. We usually have everything handed out by 1:30 PM and we need a few folks to stick around and help us clean up.
It’s a heck of a lot of work, but if everyone pitches in, it’ll all get done! See you this weekend.
Canada (Ely) Canoe Trek Meeting - Mon. Feb 6
If you are going on this trip this summer, please plan to attend a meeting at 6:00 PM this Monday, Feb. 6 at the Eagle’s Nest. We will discuss documents needed to travel in Canada, required training, and preparations for the trip.
Troop Planning Meeting – Mon. Feb. 6
Planning meeting only troop leaders are required to attend. PLC at 7:00 PM. Patrol Leaders, make sure your patrol is represented.
Scout Sunday at St. Mark’s
We will celebrate Scout Sunday on Feb 12th at St. Marks. We plan to sit as a group at the 8:30 and 11:00 am services. Scouts will serve as ushers and possibly present the colors during both services. All scouts and parents are encouraged to attend one or both services as an expression of our appreciation for the support we receive from the staff and members of St. Marks.
God and Country
Meetings will begin in February. A sign-up list is posted on the Troop bulletin board.
Scouting For Food
Start collecting non-perishable items of food. We will bring it all in to the Eagle’s Nest on Sat., Feb 11th. We will consolidate it and deliver it to the collection point.
LASER TAG – FEB 17
Laser tag has been scheduled for Feb 17th. We will meet at the Eagle’s Nest at 10 PM on Friday night and go to Laser Quest in Nashville. The cost is $35/person if we have a minimum of 30 people and this includes pizzas. Guests are welcome. We split into two groups and alternate playing 15 minute games from midnight till 6:00 AM. Scouts will be ready to be picked up at 7:00 AM at the Eagle’s Nest.
Trail of Tears Volunteer Banquet
Adult Leaders, you are all invited to attend the 2012 Trail of Tears Volunteer Banquet!
Please join us for Food (steak dinner), Fun, and Fellowship
The banquet will be held March 10th at Blackman United Methodist Church. Please see the attached document for more details on how to register.
Most of all THANK YOU for all you do for the Boys you serve in your unit – You do make a difference!
Please direct any additional questions or comments to denise.forsberg@ocharleys.com
Thanks and I hope to see you there!
Troop Calendar
Feb 3-5 Super Bowl Sunday BBQ Fund Raiser (Fri–cook, Sat-cook/prep, Sun-pick-up)
Feb 6 Troop Planning Meeting (Leaders only): PLC & Troop Committee meeting ??
Feb 11 Scouting for Food
Feb 12 Scout Sunday at St. Mark’s
Feb 17 Laser Tag Fri 10 PM to Sat 7 AM
Feb 18 Eagle Court of Honor – Matt Fowler – 2:00 PM at St. Mark’s UM Church
Feb 20 Third payment of $200/person due for Canadian Canoe Trek at Ely, MN AND
First payment of $100/person for Philmont July 2013
Feb 25 MTSU Merit Badge University (See Mr. Horne) Adult Leader Specific Training
Feb 27 Troop SPL & PL Elections
Mar 3 Adult University of Scouting – register on line @ www.mtcbsa.org
Mar 3 Eagle Court of Honor – David Reagan – 2:00 PM at St. Mark’s UM Church
Mar 3 Troop JLT for New Troop Leaders
Mar 5 Troop Planning Meeting (Leaders only): PLC & Troop Committee meeting ??
Mar 10 Cumberland Merit Badge University (register w/Mr. Horne to register)
Mar 10 District Adult Awards Banquet at Blackman UMC
Mar 12 New Troop Leaders assume duties
Mar 19-23 Spring Break
Mar 23-25 Adult Rappelling Training
Mar 23-25 Adult Outdoor Leadership Training
Mar 26 Troop Court of Honor/Summer Camp Kick-off
Mar 30-Apr 1 Troop Camp Out Rappelling/survival Tentatively Beany Elam at Boxwell
Mar 31 District Webelos Cross Over Boxwell Reservation
Apr 6 Good Friday
Apr 8 Easter Sunday
Apr 14 OA Tap Out/ Beaver Day at Camp Tubbs
Apr 20-22 Troop Backpacking Campout – Walls of Jericho
Apr 27-29 Adult Rappelling Training
May 4-6 Troop Fishing Camp Out – Pack Farm – Bell Buckle
May 13 Mother’s Day
May 18-19 Adult White Water Training Weekend # 1-Boxwell Reservation
May 26 Flag Placements
May 28 Memorial Day - No Troop Meeting
Jun 1-3 Adult White Water Training Weekend # 2 Hiwassee River
Jun 4 Troop Court of Honor
Jun 10-16 Summer Camp Camp Stahlman, Boxwell Reservation
Jun 23- Jul 4 High Adventure Canoe Trek Ely, MN & Canada
July 28-29 Youth BSA White Water Canoe/Kayak School – Hiwassee River
Aug 10-12 Troop White Water Camp Out Hiwassee River
Sept 3 Labor Day No Troop Meeting
Sep 14-16 Adult Rappelling Training
Sep 16 Second payment of $335/person for Philmont July 2013
Oct 19-21 Adult Rappelling Training
Oct 20-21 Bell Buckle Craft Fair – Troop Fund Raiser
Nov 22 Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 24 No Troop Meeting due to Holiday
Dec 7-8 Troop Christmas Camp Out – Short Mountain
Dec 31 No Troop Meeting due to Holiday
Good job! Ticket sales are close to $9,000 which is about $1,000 more than we had at this time last year! If we have the same levels of non-ticket sales on Sunday, we are looking at another record year.
Now all we have to do is cook and package 120 pork butts, 50 turkey breasts, and 214 slabs of ribs!
Mike Holtman and I will begin cooking at 9 PM Thursday night. Dane Carey and Dennis Harden will join us Friday. We will continue to cook as long as necessary on Sat. We need plenty of help starting Sat at 9:00 AM until we get everything packaged. Sunday starting at 7:00 AM, we need help moving the product into the church in order to get set up before the 8:30AM service. We need plenty of help in Class A uniform starting at 9:00 AM to hand out the orders to our customers. We usually have everything handed out by 1:30 PM and we need a few folks to stick around and help us clean up.
It’s a heck of a lot of work, but if everyone pitches in, it’ll all get done! See you this weekend.
Canada (Ely) Canoe Trek Meeting - Mon. Feb 6
If you are going on this trip this summer, please plan to attend a meeting at 6:00 PM this Monday, Feb. 6 at the Eagle’s Nest. We will discuss documents needed to travel in Canada, required training, and preparations for the trip.
Troop Planning Meeting – Mon. Feb. 6
Planning meeting only troop leaders are required to attend. PLC at 7:00 PM. Patrol Leaders, make sure your patrol is represented.
Scout Sunday at St. Mark’s
We will celebrate Scout Sunday on Feb 12th at St. Marks. We plan to sit as a group at the 8:30 and 11:00 am services. Scouts will serve as ushers and possibly present the colors during both services. All scouts and parents are encouraged to attend one or both services as an expression of our appreciation for the support we receive from the staff and members of St. Marks.
God and Country
Meetings will begin in February. A sign-up list is posted on the Troop bulletin board.
Scouting For Food
Start collecting non-perishable items of food. We will bring it all in to the Eagle’s Nest on Sat., Feb 11th. We will consolidate it and deliver it to the collection point.
LASER TAG – FEB 17
Laser tag has been scheduled for Feb 17th. We will meet at the Eagle’s Nest at 10 PM on Friday night and go to Laser Quest in Nashville. The cost is $35/person if we have a minimum of 30 people and this includes pizzas. Guests are welcome. We split into two groups and alternate playing 15 minute games from midnight till 6:00 AM. Scouts will be ready to be picked up at 7:00 AM at the Eagle’s Nest.
Trail of Tears Volunteer Banquet
Adult Leaders, you are all invited to attend the 2012 Trail of Tears Volunteer Banquet!
Please join us for Food (steak dinner), Fun, and Fellowship
The banquet will be held March 10th at Blackman United Methodist Church. Please see the attached document for more details on how to register.
Most of all THANK YOU for all you do for the Boys you serve in your unit – You do make a difference!
Please direct any additional questions or comments to denise.forsberg@ocharleys.com
Thanks and I hope to see you there!
Troop Calendar
Feb 3-5 Super Bowl Sunday BBQ Fund Raiser (Fri–cook, Sat-cook/prep, Sun-pick-up)
Feb 6 Troop Planning Meeting (Leaders only): PLC & Troop Committee meeting ??
Feb 11 Scouting for Food
Feb 12 Scout Sunday at St. Mark’s
Feb 17 Laser Tag Fri 10 PM to Sat 7 AM
Feb 18 Eagle Court of Honor – Matt Fowler – 2:00 PM at St. Mark’s UM Church
Feb 20 Third payment of $200/person due for Canadian Canoe Trek at Ely, MN AND
First payment of $100/person for Philmont July 2013
Feb 25 MTSU Merit Badge University (See Mr. Horne) Adult Leader Specific Training
Feb 27 Troop SPL & PL Elections
Mar 3 Adult University of Scouting – register on line @ www.mtcbsa.org
Mar 3 Eagle Court of Honor – David Reagan – 2:00 PM at St. Mark’s UM Church
Mar 3 Troop JLT for New Troop Leaders
Mar 5 Troop Planning Meeting (Leaders only): PLC & Troop Committee meeting ??
Mar 10 Cumberland Merit Badge University (register w/Mr. Horne to register)
Mar 10 District Adult Awards Banquet at Blackman UMC
Mar 12 New Troop Leaders assume duties
Mar 19-23 Spring Break
Mar 23-25 Adult Rappelling Training
Mar 23-25 Adult Outdoor Leadership Training
Mar 26 Troop Court of Honor/Summer Camp Kick-off
Mar 30-Apr 1 Troop Camp Out Rappelling/survival Tentatively Beany Elam at Boxwell
Mar 31 District Webelos Cross Over Boxwell Reservation
Apr 6 Good Friday
Apr 8 Easter Sunday
Apr 14 OA Tap Out/ Beaver Day at Camp Tubbs
Apr 20-22 Troop Backpacking Campout – Walls of Jericho
Apr 27-29 Adult Rappelling Training
May 4-6 Troop Fishing Camp Out – Pack Farm – Bell Buckle
May 13 Mother’s Day
May 18-19 Adult White Water Training Weekend # 1-Boxwell Reservation
May 26 Flag Placements
May 28 Memorial Day - No Troop Meeting
Jun 1-3 Adult White Water Training Weekend # 2 Hiwassee River
Jun 4 Troop Court of Honor
Jun 10-16 Summer Camp Camp Stahlman, Boxwell Reservation
Jun 23- Jul 4 High Adventure Canoe Trek Ely, MN & Canada
July 28-29 Youth BSA White Water Canoe/Kayak School – Hiwassee River
Aug 10-12 Troop White Water Camp Out Hiwassee River
Sept 3 Labor Day No Troop Meeting
Sep 14-16 Adult Rappelling Training
Sep 16 Second payment of $335/person for Philmont July 2013
Oct 19-21 Adult Rappelling Training
Oct 20-21 Bell Buckle Craft Fair – Troop Fund Raiser
Nov 22 Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 24 No Troop Meeting due to Holiday
Dec 7-8 Troop Christmas Camp Out – Short Mountain
Dec 31 No Troop Meeting due to Holiday
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