Annual Scouting Breakfast!
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alpharaposaNext weekend is the United Methodist Indiana Conference's annual meeting. That also means that it's time for the annual Scouting Ministries breakfast! It will be held at Shapiro's in downtown Indianapolis at 7 am. Show up, eat good food, and catch up on the news.
Our local chapter of NAUMS, the Pathfinder chapter (which covers all of Indiana), will be having its annual meeting. We're going to be taking a big step this year and incorporating as our own non-profit. That means all contributions will be tax deductible, with forms filed to prove it. Otherwise, we'll continue doing what we've been doing.
What have we been doing? Why do we have a NAUMS chapter at all?
There are two structures in our conference to serve United Methodists that want to do scouting ministry. There's the conference coordinator and the scouting ministries specialists, who are organized within the structure of the conference itself. And there's the Pathfinder chapter, which stands outside of the conference but works cooperatively with it.
In that case, why have both? The conference coordinator can coordinate activities, right? Well, that's true, but who does he coordinate? Without the volunteers, there is no program because there's nobody to do the work or even profit by it. The biggest idea won't get off the ground if nobody hears about it.
That's the Pathfinder chapter's role. The conference coordinator is like the director of a high school marching band. He has the connections in the school structure and can contact people and schedule events (as well as lead the band). Our NAUMS chapter is like all the tireless parents who raise funds, drive teens to shows, and provide the extra adults needed to make long trips happen.
It might theoretically be possible to have a marching band program without the support of all those parents. It might be possible to have a scouting ministry without an organization to connect all the scouting volunteers, too. But there's no doubt that we're all enabled and enriched by knowing each other and being able to call upon each other. When the Bat signal (Scout signal?) goes out, it's good to know that there are people watching and ready to leap into action.
To get down to what exactly we're doing right now in the Pathfinder chapter, our ongoing projects include providing small travel Bibles for youth at the high adventure BSA bases (Philmont and Sea Base), and the Larry Richert Memorial fund, a scholarship program to help youth go on the big trips by providing a portion of the cost. We publish our newsletter regularly, to stay in touch with our members and the different scouting organizations in our conference (BSA, GSUSA, Campfire, American Heritage Girls, 4-H, et al).
You can stay up to date on various events on the facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/NAUMS1
Our local chapter of NAUMS, the Pathfinder chapter (which covers all of Indiana), will be having its annual meeting. We're going to be taking a big step this year and incorporating as our own non-profit. That means all contributions will be tax deductible, with forms filed to prove it. Otherwise, we'll continue doing what we've been doing.
What have we been doing? Why do we have a NAUMS chapter at all?
There are two structures in our conference to serve United Methodists that want to do scouting ministry. There's the conference coordinator and the scouting ministries specialists, who are organized within the structure of the conference itself. And there's the Pathfinder chapter, which stands outside of the conference but works cooperatively with it.
In that case, why have both? The conference coordinator can coordinate activities, right? Well, that's true, but who does he coordinate? Without the volunteers, there is no program because there's nobody to do the work or even profit by it. The biggest idea won't get off the ground if nobody hears about it.
That's the Pathfinder chapter's role. The conference coordinator is like the director of a high school marching band. He has the connections in the school structure and can contact people and schedule events (as well as lead the band). Our NAUMS chapter is like all the tireless parents who raise funds, drive teens to shows, and provide the extra adults needed to make long trips happen.
It might theoretically be possible to have a marching band program without the support of all those parents. It might be possible to have a scouting ministry without an organization to connect all the scouting volunteers, too. But there's no doubt that we're all enabled and enriched by knowing each other and being able to call upon each other. When the Bat signal (Scout signal?) goes out, it's good to know that there are people watching and ready to leap into action.
To get down to what exactly we're doing right now in the Pathfinder chapter, our ongoing projects include providing small travel Bibles for youth at the high adventure BSA bases (Philmont and Sea Base), and the Larry Richert Memorial fund, a scholarship program to help youth go on the big trips by providing a portion of the cost. We publish our newsletter regularly, to stay in touch with our members and the different scouting organizations in our conference (BSA, GSUSA, Campfire, American Heritage Girls, 4-H, et al).
You can stay up to date on various events on the facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/NAUMS1
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Date: 2015-05-23 02:09 pm (UTC)Good luck!