2012 News Archive

04-23-2012

Last Minute Updates for Pow Wow - 2012 Rangerlympic Games

Pow Wow is this weekend – April 27-29. We are expecting a good turnout of Rangers and leaders from across the district. The weather forecast is near perfect – mid 80s during the day and mid 60s at night. Please be in prayer this week for great services Friday and Saturday night. During the Friday night service we will be kicking off the 2012 Rangerlympic games with our opening ceremony, and we will also be honoring JC and Faye Spence for their 50 years of service in Royal Rangers.

Help Needed: We still need commanders to sign up to help run games and activities during the day on Saturday. You may sign up before camp at http://games.rrfrontier.com/. You may also volunteer once you arrive at camp; see Rick Adkinson if you can help on Saturday. Everyone who helps with games and activities on Saturday receives the staff patch for Pow Wow and the Rangerlympic medallion.

More Help Needed: We could still use a couple more men to help with food service. If you are willing to work long hours to help prepare and serve the food at Pow Wow, let our district director know (jonathan.trower@hot.rr.com).

Ice: For many years we have been able to make ice available at camp for a reasonable price. We are no longer able to get the same deal we had in the past. Thus, we will not have ice available for purchase at Pow Wow. There are several locations in Maypearl – David’s Supermarket, Dollar General, and the Exxon station – that sell ice at reasonable prices if you find you need more during camp.

Permission Forms: Don’t forget that for your Adventure and Expedition Rangers to participate in the challenge course and/or paintball they must have the appropriate permission form signed by their parent or legal guardian. These forms may be turned in at registration.

Visitors: Visiting hours for Pow Wow are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and during the evening services. If you have families, pastors, or other interested people who would like to see what Pow Wow is all about, feel free to invite them out for part of the day on Saturday. Visitors cannot participate in the activities nor do we have food service available (though the concession stand will be open).

FCF Scout Testing: Young Bucks who would like to participate in the FCF Scout competition will need to turn their applications into the FCF staff (Art 'Flintlock' Sullivan, Rodney 'Bow Breaker' Briggs, or Frank 'Jawbone' Super) on Friday in the FCF village behind the Ollie Henley Lodge. Testing will be held Saturday morning after the morning assembly. You will need to be in complete FCF outfit for the testing as your outfit will be judged. Come prepared to throw your 'hawk and knife and to start a fire with flint and steel. You will also be shooting black powder or primitive bow. Be sure to get your application completely filled out, including required signatures. There are also reference forms that need to be completed. It’s too late to have those mailed, but you can bring them to camp in a sealed envelope and turn them in with your application. You will NOT be able to complete the paperwork at camp, as there are signatures required from people who likely won't be at camp. These forms can be found on the FCF website.

Pastor Approval Form

With Pow Wow this weekend, it’s important to remember that anyone over the age of 18 will need a pastor approval form to stay overnight at any district event, including Pow Wow. This form needs to be filled out by the senior pastor or a pastor that is familiar with the adult. This form can be found on the district web site and in the event packet for Pow Wow. If you have already filled this form out for 2012 and received your pastor's signature, you won't need to do it again for the rest of 2012. If you had gotten your pastor's signature in 2011, you will need to do this again for 2012. The pastor approval form is required to be done every year, and it doesn't carry over from one year to the next. To verify if this form is on file for 2012, email Jonathan Trower.

Winter Camp 2012 Theme

If you are planning to participate in the video competition at Pow Wow for videos promoting Winter Camp, you’ll want to make note of our Winter Camp theme and include that in your videos. Our theme for this year's winter camp is Mission: Improbable. More information will be released on winter camp in late summer early fall as we finalize plans for winter camp. Begin making plans to be at Lakeview Camp on November 9-11, 2012.

Discovery Training Camp

If you have boys that are in Discovery Rangers, please note that the Trinity Valley Section will be hosting a Discovery Training Camp on June 8-10, 2012, on the backside of the Pleasant Hills Children’s Home property. This camp is open to all Discovery Rangers. The price is $65 for chartered outposts and $75 for non-chartered outposts. The price includes 6 meals, a t-shirt, a ball cap, and workbook per camper. The application is available online. For more information, please contact Nolan Fox at nolenfox@gmail.com.

Upcoming GMA Ceremony

A GMA ceremony honoring Taylor Beavers will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 6, 2012, at the First Assembly of God, Terrell, TX (203 Main Street). Everyone is welcome.

National Camporama

Just a reminder that if you are making plans to take your boys to Camporama in July, that the first discount deadline is quickly approaching on May 15, 2012. Chartered members can attend this once-in-a-lifetime event for a registration fee of $275 ($324 for non-chartered members). 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.

04-09-2012

Pow Wow Work Day

Our Pow Wow work day is coming up on April 14, 2012. We have a lot of work that needs to be done at the campground to get ready for this year’s Pow Wow. Camp will be open beginning Friday night if you want to come with your outpost and camp out. Lunch will be served on Saturday for everyone that comes and works. 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.

Pow Wow - 2012 Rangerlympic Games

While the pre-registration deadline for the registration discount has passed, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on this year’s Pow Wow. We are just a few short weeks away from the start of the 2012 Rangerlympic Games – North Texas Pow Wow. Our Pow Wow event packet is available to download from our web site. (http://www.ntxrr.org/documents/2012/2012%20Pow%20Wow%20packet.pdf). Pow Wow is going to be an exciting fun-filled event for everyone. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Royal Rangers this year at our Pow Wow. 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. We are looking forward to some wonderful spiritual services with Dave Franklin as our guest speaker. If you have any boys in FCF, then encourage them to consider running for our district scout and assistant scouts. We'll be holding our scout selections at Pow Wow this year. More information on scout selection will be available as we get closer to Pow Wow.

Pastor Approval Form

With Pow Wow quickly approaching, it’s important to remember that anyone over the age of 18 will need a pastor approval form to stay overnight at any district event, including Pow Wow. This form needs to be filled out by the senior pastor or a pastor that is familiar with the adult. This form can be found on the district web site and in the event packet for Pow Wow. If you have already filled this form out for 2012 and received your pastor's signature, you won't need to do it again for the rest of 2012. If you had gotten your pastor's signature in 2011, you will need to do this again for 2012. The pastor approval form is required to be done every year, and it doesn't carry over from one year to the next. To verify if this form is on file for 2012, email Jonathan Trower.

Winter Camp 2012 Theme

For churches that are planning to compete in our video competition at Pow Wow, we wanted to go ahead and announce our theme for this year's Winter Camp so you can incorporate the theme into your videos. Our theme for this year's Winter Camp is Mission: Improbable. More information will be released on Winter Camp in late summer early fall as we finalize plans for Winter Camp. Begin making plans to be at Lakeview Camp on November 9-11, 2012.

Discovery Training Camp

The Trinity Valley Section will be hosting a Discovery Training Camp on June 8-10, 2012, on the backside of the Pleasant Hills Children’s Home property. This camp is open to all Discovery Rangers. The price is $65 for chartered outposts and $75 for non-chartered outposts. The price includes 6 meals, a t-shirt, a ball cap, and workbook per camper. The application is available online. For more information, please contact Nolan Fox at nolenfox@gmail.com.

New Discovery Rangers Handbook Released

An all-new Discovery Rangers Handbook is now available through Gospel Publishing House. This new handbook includes all the latest program updates and enhancements to the Royal Rangers ministry. A number of important updates are included which you will certainly want to be aware of, such as:

• New Member Requirements – formerly referred to as “recruit” requirements, these requirements define the entry point for new boys joining the program
• A presentation of the “seven experiences of Royal Rangers” –Connect, Do, Grow, Learn, Belong, Lead, and Serve
• Updates to the advancement trail, including a new style of Bible merits and all-new Bronze Buffalo awards
• Uniform information
• Leadership positions and duties
• Patrol of Excellence criteria
• An overview of the path to Christlike manhood reflected on our Bible merits and other materials
• Material on physical health and fitness
• Plus a whole lot more!
• Also included in this handbook is a new advancement logbook section to enable a boy to track his advancement progress right in his handbook, without the need for a separate logbook.

New handbooks for Adventure and Expedition Rangers are also in development and will be available summer 2012.

The Discovery Rangers Handbook is available now through Gospel Publishing House at gospelpublishing.com or by calling 800-641-4310. Ask for item #020615. Charter discounts apply, and bulk pricing is also available.

Frontier Gazette

The National FCF has released their first issue of the Frontier Gazette. It can be found online on the National FCF web site.

Frontier Adventure Results

On March 30-April 1, the Shawnee Trail Chapter held a Frontier Adventure for new members to join FCF. Our new crew of Green Horns came in looking excited and more than a little nervous.

Our candidates did well; we had 7 candidates show up and we have 7 new Frontiersmen. There was an awesome display of team work and fellowship among these candidates during their test. The staff did a phenomenal job! Chapter FCF staff would like to thank God for His help in pulling this Adventure off and the favor He gave everyone.

So your new FCF Members (sponsor is in parenthesis) are:

Reagan Zaragoza (Carson Zaragoza)
Dakota McRee (Nolan Fox)
Caleb Fox (Nolan Fox)
Joshua Snyder (Tanner Farley)
Payton Brown (Frank “JawBone” Super)
Austin Marshall (Brian Marshall)
Ethan Heard (Zak Smith)

Thank you again for your support and prayers. Our desire is to see everyone to come away from their Adventure closer to God. Please take the time to congratulate the new members and say something encouraging to them.

Royal Rangers History Online

During this year Royal Rangers are celebrating our 50th anniversary. Some of you have lived much of our history, while others are fairly new to the Royal Rangers. If you would like to catch up on some of the early history of the Royal Rangers ministry, you can check out a discussion thread on RangerForums. The address to the thread is http://www.rangerforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7651

New Camping Area Available

The primitive camping area at Lakeview south of Highway 66 is available for use by outposts who would like camp at Lakeview but in a different setting than what your boys experience when they come to district camps. This camping area has no facilities or running water, but there is access to a large tank with good fishing. If you would like to book this area for an outpost camp, contact the district director (jonathan.trower@hot.rr.com) and he will be glad to schedule your group. There is no charge for using this primitive camping area.

National Camporama

Just a reminder that if you are making plans to take your boys to Camporama in July, that the first discount deadline is quickly approaching on May 15, 2012. Chartered members can attend this once-in-a-lifetime event for a registration fee of $275 ($324 for non-chartered members). 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.

03-28-2012

Pow Wow - 2012 Rangerlympic Games

Pre-Registration Deadline Approaching

Pow Wow 2012 is quickly approaching, but the pre-registration deadline is approaching even faster. To save your boys and leaders money on your Pow Wow registration, you need to get your pre-registration postmarked by April 2.

If you need a copy of the 2012 Pow Wow packet, you can download it from the district Royal Rangers website (http://www.ntxrr.org/documents/2012/2012%20Pow%20Wow%20packet.pdf).

Several commanders have asked if Ranger Kids can attend Pow Wow. Our longstanding policy has been that Ranger Kids are welcome to register and attend as long as their dad is with them at the camp. But you do have to realize that most of the activities are going to be geared to older boys (Discovery Rangers, Adventure Rangers, and Expedition Rangers).

A note about credit cards: for the past several years the North Texas District has underwritten the fees that banks charge whenever a credit card has been used at any district function. Last year those fees amounted to about $800.00 for Royal Rangers functions. The district has had to start passing those fees along to the various ministries in the district. Thus, while it is still possible to pay your Pow Wow fees with a credit card, you can help the overall Royal Rangers budget if you can pay your registration fees with a church check rather than a credit card.

03-12-2012

LEAD 2012

LEAD 2012 is coming up later this week, March 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency hotel at DFW Airport. For those that are planning to attend LEAD 2012, the attire is the utility uniform for Thursday and Friday morning and special uniform Friday afternoon and Saturday. The attire for those attending the Silver Eagle Celebration is any historical accurate RR uniform or FCF outfit.

We are the host district for LEAD 2012. It would be great, seeing as most of us live relatively close to the hotel, if the North Texas attendees could stick around Saturday afternoon for a while to help the national office staff tear down and pack.

Anyone that has a room reserved at the hotel and would like a roommate to help cover the cost, please contact Jonathan Trower.

All organizational leaders (serve on the sectional or district staff) are invited and encouraged to attend LEAD 2012 – the National Council and Conference for Royal Rangers organizational leaders. If you haven’t already registered, the price to register on-site for LEAD 2012 is $130 if you are in a chartered outpost ($153 if your outpost is not chartered).

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

Fred Deaver Artwork Available

Fred Deaver, our former national FCF president and a world renown artist, will be at LEAD on March 15-17. LEAD will be held at the Hyatt Regency at DFW airport, so it is right in our district. Even if you are not attending LEAD you are invited to stop by the hotel and see Fred and view his artwork. His paintings and bronzes would look great in almost any setting, and he is willing to work with you on a payment plan, so almost anyone can afford to own some of Fred’s artwork. And his work is available in a wide range of prices, so it may be easier for you to purchase something that you have thought. Exhibits at LEAD will be open Thursday and Friday during the day, and Saturday morning.

Old Fashioned Barn Raising

Many people across the district have been asking what they could do to help Gary and Sheri Bierschwale recover from the fire in their house. We have set up a day to do some demolition and construction at their house on Saturday, March 17. The work will begin early and go late, so if you can only help part of the day that would still be helpful. We will provide breakfast (sausage and egg burritos and pastries) at 8 a.m. and lunch (barbeque brisket sandwiches, beans, and potato salad) at 1 p.m. The address is 5 Carey Ln, Lucas, TX.

If anyone wants to come help, we are asking them to bring their own tools and equipment. Things that will be necessary are the following:

• Heavy soled shoes –NO FLIP FLOPS. There is quite a bit of burned debris, and there will be nails.
• Gloves
• Safety glasses
• Flat ended shovels
• Hammers and/or sledge hammers
• Pry bars
• Wheel barrows or trash cans with wheels to help move debris to the dumpster
• Bottled water

Folks need to be aware that the utilities are turned off at the house and so there is no water and no toilet facilities.

Upcoming Leadership Training

The Austin Section will be offering the Ranger Essentials class on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at GT Austin. The class begins at 8:00 AM and is an eight hour course. The cost is $25 and includes lunch. The uniform for this training class is Ranger casual or the utility uniform. Contact Rick Adkinson for more information. GT Austin is located at 2700 Northland Dr.; Austin, TX 78756.

Royal Rangers History Online

During this year Royal Rangers are celebrating our 50th anniversary. Some of you have lived much of our history, while others are fairly new to the Royal Rangers. If you would like to catch up on some of the early history of the Royal Rangers ministry, you can check out a discussion thread on RangerForums. The address to the thread is http://www.rangerforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7651

New Camping Area Available

The primitive camping area at Lakeview south of Highway 66 is available for use by outposts who would like camp at Lakeview but in a different setting than what your boys experience when they come to district camps. This camping area has no facilities or running water, but there is access to a large tank with good fishing. If you would like to book this area for an outpost camp, contact the district director (jonathan.trower@hot.rr.com) and he will be glad to schedule your group. There is no charge for using this primitive camping area.

Pow Wow - 2012 Rangerlympic Games

Pow Wow 2012 is quickly approaching and I would like to encourage every commander to download the 2012 Pow Wow packet from the district Royal Rangers website (http://www.ntxrr.org/documents/2012/2012%20Pow%20Wow%20packet.pdf). Pow Wow is going to be an exciting fun-filled event for everyone. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Royal Rangers this year at our Pow Wow. Our theme for Pow Wow is a takeoff the Summer Olympic Games, which are being held in London this year. We are calling our event the Rangerlympic Games. We'll have many exciting activities for boys to participate in and we are looking forward to some wonderful spiritual services with Dave Franklin as our guest speaker. If you have any boys in FCF, then I encourage you to talk to them about running for our district scout and assistant scouts. We'll be holding our scout selections at Pow Wow this year. More information on scout selection will be available as we get closer to Pow Wow.

Pow Wow/Camp Work Day

We have a lot of work that needs to be done at the campground to get ready for this year’s Pow Wow. Our annual Pow Wow/Camp work day is 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.

National Camporama

Just a reminder that if you are making plans to take your boys to Camporama in July, that the first discount deadline is quickly approaching on May 15, 2012. Chartered members can attend this once-in-a-lifetime event for a registration fee of $275 ($324 for non-chartered members). 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.

03-12-2012

LEAD 2012

LEAD 2012 is coming up later this week, March 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency hotel at DFW Airport. For those that are planning to attend LEAD 2012, the attire is the utility uniform for Thursday and Friday morning and special uniform Friday afternoon and Saturday. The attire for those attending the Silver Eagle Celebration is any historical accurate RR uniform or FCF outfit.

We are the host district for LEAD 2012. It would be great, seeing as most of us live relatively close to the hotel, if the North Texas attendees could stick around Saturday afternoon for a while to help the national office staff tear down and pack.

Anyone that has a room reserved at the hotel and would like a roommate to help cover the cost, please contact Jonathan Trower.

All organizational leaders (serve on the sectional or district staff) are invited and encouraged to attend LEAD 2012 – the National Council and Conference for Royal Rangers organizational leaders. If you haven’t already registered, the price to register on-site for LEAD 2012 is $130 if you are in a chartered outpost ($153 if your outpost is not chartered).

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

Fred Deaver Artwork Available

Fred Deaver, our former national FCF president and a world renown artist, will be at LEAD on March 15-17. LEAD will be held at the Hyatt Regency at DFW airport, so it is right in our district. Even if you are not attending LEAD you are invited to stop by the hotel and see Fred and view his artwork. His paintings and bronzes would look great in almost any setting, and he is willing to work with you on a payment plan, so almost anyone can afford to own some of Fred’s artwork. And his work is available in a wide range of prices, so it may be easier for you to purchase something that you have thought. Exhibits at LEAD will be open Thursday and Friday during the day, and Saturday morning.

Old Fashioned Barn Raising

Many people across the district have been asking what they could do to help Gary and Sheri Bierschwale recover from the fire in their house. We have set up a day to do some demolition and construction at their house on Saturday, March 17. The work will begin early and go late, so if you can only help part of the day that would still be helpful. We will provide breakfast (sausage and egg burritos and pastries) at 8 a.m. and lunch (barbeque brisket sandwiches, beans, and potato salad) at 1 p.m. The address is 5 Carey Ln, Lucas, TX.

If anyone wants to come help, we are asking them to bring their own tools and equipment. Things that will be necessary are the following:

• Heavy soled shoes –NO FLIP FLOPS. There is quite a bit of burned debris, and there will be nails.
• Gloves
• Safety glasses
• Flat ended shovels
• Hammers and/or sledge hammers
• Pry bars
• Wheel barrows or trash cans with wheels to help move debris to the dumpster
• Bottled water

Folks need to be aware that the utilities are turned off at the house and so there is no water and no toilet facilities.

Upcoming Leadership Training

The Austin Section will be offering the Ranger Essentials class on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at GT Austin. The class begins at 8:00 AM and is an eight hour course. The cost is $25 and includes lunch. The uniform for this training class is Ranger casual or the utility uniform. Contact Rick Adkinson for more information. GT Austin is located at 2700 Northland Dr.; Austin, TX 78756.

Royal Rangers History Online

During this year Royal Rangers are celebrating our 50th anniversary. Some of you have lived much of our history, while others are fairly new to the Royal Rangers. If you would like to catch up on some of the early history of the Royal Rangers ministry, you can check out a discussion thread on RangerForums. The address to the thread is http://www.rangerforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7651

New Camping Area Available

The primitive camping area at Lakeview south of Highway 66 is available for use by outposts who would like camp at Lakeview but in a different setting than what your boys experience when they come to district camps. This camping area has no facilities or running water, but there is access to a large tank with good fishing. If you would like to book this area for an outpost camp, contact the district director (jonathan.trower@hot.rr.com) and he will be glad to schedule your group. There is no charge for using this primitive camping area.

Pow Wow - 2012 Rangerlympic Games

Pow Wow 2012 is quickly approaching and I would like to encourage every commander to download the 2012 Pow Wow packet from the district Royal Rangers website (http://www.ntxrr.org/documents/2012/2012%20Pow%20Wow%20packet.pdf). Pow Wow is going to be an exciting fun-filled event for everyone. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Royal Rangers this year at our Pow Wow. Our theme for Pow Wow is a takeoff the Summer Olympic Games, which are being held in London this year. We are calling our event the Rangerlympic Games. We'll have many exciting activities for boys to participate in and we are looking forward to some wonderful spiritual services with Dave Franklin as our guest speaker. If you have any boys in FCF, then I encourage you to talk to them about running for our district scout and assistant scouts. We'll be holding our scout selections at Pow Wow this year. More information on scout selection will be available as we get closer to Pow Wow.

Pow Wow/Camp Work Day

We have a lot of work that needs to be done at the campground to get ready for this year’s Pow Wow. Our annual Pow Wow/Camp work day is 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.

National Camporama

Just a reminder that if you are making plans to take your boys to Camporama in July, that the first discount deadline is quickly approaching on May 15, 2012. Chartered members can attend this once-in-a-lifetime event for a registration fee of $275 ($324 for non-chartered members). 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.

03-03-2012

Royal Rangers History Online

During this year Royal Rangers are celebrating our 50th anniversary. Some of you have lived much of our history, while others are fairly new to the Royal Rangers. If you would like to catch up on some of the early history of the Royal Rangers ministry, you can check out a discussion thread on RangerForums. The address to the thread is http://www.rangerforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7651

New Camping Area Available

Many of our leaders may remember the primitive camping area at Lakeview south of Highway 66. We used that area for years for overnight camps at our boys and adult training camps. This area is available for use by outposts who would like camp at Lakeview but in a different setting that what your boys experience when they come to district camps. This camping area has no facilities or running water, but there is access to a large tank with good fishing. If you would like to book this area for an outpost camp, contact the district director (jonathan.trower@hot.rr.com) and he will be glad to schedule your group. There is no charge for using this primitive camping area.

Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship Adventure

If you have a boy that is interested in joining FCF or if you are interested in joining, applications are available online at the FCF web site and need to be submitted no later than Brush Poppin’ which will be held March 9-11, 2012. FCF staff needs to know ahead of time how many men and boys will be joining to adequately prepare.

The FCF adventure will be held March 30-April 1, 2012.

The costs are as follows:

• Candidates (sponsor takes care of this cost) $35.00
• FCF Handbook (sponsor takes care of this too) $10.00
• Camp Staff Workers $30.00. This is a three day camp all food cooked and provided.

Sponsors, workers and camp staff, make sure you bring plates and utensils for yourself and at least 1 other person.

Please, please lift this camp up in prayer that God will be glorified and have His way for, through, and in all who attend!!

Any other questions please contact me or the assistant camp commander.

Ron ”Pure Heart” Goodnow, Buckskin Rep, rgoodnow@napgladu.com

Rodney Briggs, Vice President FCF, Bow.breaker@yahoo.com

FCF Brush Poppin' Information

Hear ye! Hear ye! Shawnee Trail Brush Poppin’ is just ‘round the corner down the trail. March 9 – 11 we be gatherin’ down at the north 40 of Lakeview Camp for fun, fellowship, and a weekend of praise and worship with our Maker.

This camp is for FCF members both active and inactive, and guests who may be potential candidates. Cost will be $20 for members and guests, $30 for inactive members.

Get your runnin’ mocs out and make ready. Keep watching the days ahead as more info will be comin’. Wind up your time keepers and set your sundials, the hour to camp is countin’ down, and the hour of His return is at hand.

Skywatcher

Pastor Approval Form

With Brush Poppin’ and Pow Wow quickly approaching, it’s important to remember that anyone over the age of 18 will need a pastor approval form to stay overnight at any district event, including Brush Poppin'. This form needs to be filled out by the senior pastor or a pastor that is familiar with the adult. This form can be found on the district web site and in the event packet for Pow Wow. If you have already filled this form out for 2012 and received your pastor's signature, you won't need to do it again for the rest of 2012. If you had gotten your pastor's signature in 2011, you will need to do this again for 2012. The pastor approval form is required to be done every year, and it doesn't carry over from one year to the next. To verify if this form is on file for 2012, email Jonathan Trower.

Requirements for Gold Medal of Achievement Changing

The requirements for earning the Gold Medal of Achievement will be changing from the 2002 requirements to the 2010 requirements at the end of the year. If you have boys who have been working on their GMA, particularly boys who have completed their Silver Medal, they will most likely want to complete their GMA under the 2002 requirements. They have until December 31, 2012 to complete them under the 2002 requirements; after that date they will have to transition to the 2010 requirements. The GMA application is available at http://agwebservices.org/Content/Resources/2010%20New%20Program%20GMA%20Eform-fillable.pdf – the first and third pages are required for a boy completing the GMA on the 2002 requirements, and the first and second pages are required if he is completing his GMA under the new requirements. Whenever you have a boy complete his Gold Medal of Achievement, be sure to send the completed application to the district Royal Rangers director, Jonathan Trower, so the interview may be scheduled and the processing of the application completed.

Pow Wow - 2012 Rangerlympic Games

Pow Wow 2012 is quickly approaching and I would like to encourage every commander to download the 2012 Pow Wow packet from the district Royal Rangers website (http://www.ntxrr.org/documents/2012/2012%20Pow%20Wow%20packet.pdf). Pow Wow is going to be an exciting fun-filled event for everyone. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Royal Rangers this year at our Pow Wow. Our theme for Pow Wow is a takeoff the Summer Olympic Games, which are being held in London this year. We are calling our event the Rangerlympic Games. We'll have many exciting activities for boys to participate in and we are looking forward to some wonderful spiritual services with Dave Franklin as our guest speaker. If you have any boys in FCF, then I encourage you to talk to them about running for our district scout and assistant scouts. We'll be holding our scout selections at Pow Wow this year. More information on scout selection will be available as we get closer to Pow Wow.

Pow Wow/Camp Work Day

We have a lot of work that needs to be done at the campground to get ready for this year’s Pow Wow. Our annual Pow Wow/Camp work day is 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.

FCF Dues

FCF dues are due at Brush Poppin’ this year. This year’s dues fees are $15 for Young Bucks and $25 for Old Timers. Lifetime membership is $300. If you are an inactive member for 1-3 years, you will need to pay for the years you were inactive plus the current year. If you have been inactive for more than three years, you are an archived member and will need to pay last year’s and this year’s dues and work an FCF adventure.

The dues form is available online. 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 have any questions on your membership status, contact Frank "Jawbone" Super, our FCF scribe, at usmcrsuper@sbcglobal.net.

National Camporama

Just a reminder that if you are making plans to take your boys to Camporama in July, that the first discount deadline is quickly approaching on May 15, 2012. Chartered members can attend this once-in-a-lifetime event for a registration fee of $275 ($324 for non-chartered members). 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.