North Texas Royal Rangers

January 18, 2012 News

The District Weekly News can be found on the News Link here or the one on the Main Menu (left side).

FCF Updates (1/16/2012)

Updates about FCF can be found on the FCF page.

Leaders Training Available

We have three opportunities opportunities in the district for leadership training this month. All leaders really need to take both Ranger Basics and Ranger Essentials. They do not have to be taken in any particular order.

January 21: Ranger Essentials, Bethel Church in Temple, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Cost is $20. Contact David Trower for application and more information.

January 28: Ranger Essentials, Crossroads Church in Greenville. Contact Lee and Patty Fogleman for application and more information.

January 28: Ranger Basics, Living Word A/G in Alvord, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Cost is $20. Contact Jonathan Trower for application and more information.

February 3-4: Training Academy. This is the replacement for the Instructor Certification Seminar. If you would like to become an instructor for our leaders training, or have been an instructor in the past and need to renew, contact our district training coordinator, Rick Adkinson, for more information.

February 24-25: World Class Outpost Seminar, University Church in Waxahachie. This is a national training event that is designed to help you and your entire outpost leadership team take your outpost to the next level. The registration form is available on the national Royal Rangers website. The pre-registration deadline is January 24.

Pow Wow 2012

The 2012 district Pow Wow will be held April 27-29. Pow Wow is for all Rangers and leaders from across the district. In fact, if your church doesn’t have Royal Rangers but you have some men and boys who would like to come to Pow Wow, they are welcome too.

This year we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Royal Rangers. Dave Franklin will be our speaker. Dave grew up in Royal Rangers at Oak Cliff Assembly of God in Dallas. His father moved the family to Springfield in the early 1970s to join the national Royal Rangers staff, and Dave attended Central Bible College in Springfield. Dave now serves as the NW regional coordinator for Royal Rangers.

Games and activities will follow the Olympic theme. The Rangerlympic Games, as we call them, will be a fun time of friendly competition for all of the boys.

Camp fees for chartered boys and leaders will be $65. This includes food for five meals, patches, medallions, and much more. The fee for non-chartered groups will be $75 per person. The pre-registration deadline will be April 2. Complete information will be posted to the district website before the end of January.

2012 National Camps - Leader Training

There are lots of training opportunities for 2012.  Here are some of the currently scheduled national camps.

You can register for the following camps at http://royalrangers.com/training/schedule/.

NRMC - National Rangers Ministry Camp will give instruction in basic outdoor skills and activities providing leaders with the skills needed to take their Ranger boys on exciting outpost activities outside their normal weekly meeting times. Instruction in effectively implementing the team/patrol method will be offered as a means to facilitate junior leadership development. Also, leaders will be challenged to connect with God and explore spiritual manhood.

• Eagle Rock, Missouri - September 2012

RKTC - Ranger Kids Training Conference gives leaders training in various techniques and methods of leadership. Leaders will also receive training specific to the development and needs of the Ranger Kids age group.

• Alvin, Texas - October 2012

WCO - World Class Outpost seminar is designed to expose the outpost leadership team to a successful set of practices, methods, strategies, and tools that will enable them to develop into a "World Class Outpost". The greatest benefit of this event is achieved when the outpost/church leadership attend and complete this event together as a team.

• Waxahachie, Texas - February 24-25, 2012 (registration deadline January 24, 2012)
• Norman, Oklahoma - May, 2012

New Super Shower House

Thank you to all who helped make this project a Success!!!! As of December 28, 2011 this project has been fully funded!!!

Camporama 2012

Registration for Camporama opens in two weeks (December 1). Hopefully your outpost is already making plans to attend and has already started raising funds for this trip. For most of the boys in our outposts, attending a Camporama is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Hopefully you are making that opportunity available to your boys.

Complete information about Camporama, and the registration information once registration opens, can be obtained on the national Camporama website.

The national Royal Rangers office just announced something new for 2012 National Camporama – they are asking each individual OUTPOST to design its own unique ink stamp (and provide ink pad). The stamp should include the outpost number and district and should be no larger than 2.5”x 2.5”. Several pages in the Camporama Campbook (included in the price of registration) will be devoted to collecting at least one stamp from each district with extra pages for more stamps. The idea is to see who can collect the most stamps! The stamp does NOT replace (but is in addition to) the popular district pin trading!

Finally, it’s important to remember each participant attending Camporama from a chartered outpost receives $49 off the regular price of registration ($324) for Camporama making it $275. If your outpost has not yet chartered for 2011-12, it's not too late to charter and thus benefit from this discount at Camporama.