News Updates

02-18-2012

LEAD 2012 for Organizational Leaders

Time is running out to get the pre-registration discount for this year’s LEAD 2012. If you are an organizational leader (serve on the sectional or district staff) you are invited and encouraged to attend LEAD 2012 – the National Council and Conference for Royal Rangers organizational leaders. It will be held March 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency hotel at DFW airport. The registration fee for LEAD 2012 is $100 if you are in a chartered outpost ($118 if your outpost is not chartered). After February 29, 2012, this is going to jump up to $130 for chartered outposts ($153 if church is not chartered).

Rooms are quickly filling up for LEAD 2012 at the Hyatt Regency. If you wish to stay at the hotel, you need to make your reservations soon. The special discounted rate at the hotel for LEAD 2012 of $117 plus tax per night is only available until February 27, 2012.

Registration and additional information is available at http://royalrangers.com/lead/.

World Class Outpost Seminar

If you haven’t yet registered for the World Class Outpost seminar scheduled at the end of February here in the district, there is still time. If you wish to register and attend, please contact the national office as soon as possible. There is limited lodging available Friday night at the Royal Rangers lodge at Lakeview Campground for $5 per person. There will also be a lunch available for purchase at the host church.

The national website states that the "WCO 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.' It is encouraged that every outpost leadership team attend the WCO together as a team to receive the most benefit from the seminar. The application can be found on the national Royal Rangers website (http://royalrangers.com/training/schedule/pdf/WCO-NTX%202012%20App.pdf).

Frontiersman Camping Fellowship Dues

Attention FCF members! It’s that time of year again to pay your yearly dues for 2012. To remain an active member, you need to pay your dues each year or pay a onetime lifetime membership. This year’s dues fees are $15 for Young Bucks and $25 for Old Timers. If you wish to do the lifetime membership option, that membership is $300. Dues are due by Brush Poppin’ each year (this year, Brush Poppin’ is March 9-11, 2012).

Those FCF members that are listed as inactive, an inactive member is one who hasn’t paid their dues in the last 1-3 years, will need to pay the dues for the years they were inactive plus this year’s dues. An archived member is one who has been inactive for more than three years. To become active again, they will need to pay last years and this year’s dues and work an FCF Adventure.

FCF members should be receiving a letter and dues form from the FCF Scribe, Frank “Jawbone” Super, explaining your membership status in FCF. Those desiring to pay the lifetime membership fee, there is a separate lifetime membership form to fill out and submit with your payment. If you didn’t get the letter, or have any questions on your membership status, he can be reached at usmcrsuper@sbcglobal.net.

Pow Wow/Camp Work Day

Our big Pow Wow/Camp Work Day is coming up on April 14, 2012. Camp will be open beginning Friday night if you want to come with your outpost. This work day will be doing work on the camp and allowing outposts to reserve their site for Pow Wow and to work on this site to get it ready for Pow Wow a couple weeks later.

I hope every outpost is making plans to attend this BIG camp as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Royal Rangers. Plans are already underway to honor our heritage as we look back at where we came from and look towards where we are heading. The 2012 Pow Wow packet is now on the district Royal Rangers website (http://www.ntxrr.org/documents/2012/2012%20Pow%20Wow%20packet.pdf ) so you can begin making plans to be at Lakeview Camp on April 27-29.

National Camporama

Are you making plans to take your boys to Camporama in July? This is going to be our national celebration of the 50th anniversary of Royal Rangers, and will be a great chance for your boys to meet Royal Rangers from around the world. If you don’t know what Camporama is, or if you want to register, check out the national Camporama website at http://nationalcamporama.ag.org/. Don’t let your boys miss out on this chance to attend a National Camporama.