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Congregations
Religious Emblems
BSA
Religious Emblems the Lynchpin to Membership
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How to Have Congregations and Clergy Begging You
to Start the Full Family of Scouting
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Stop Selling Packs, Troops, and Crews
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Stop Selling Scouting as Ministry
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Start Selling SOLUTIONSto Congregations and
Their Needs
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Whose needs are these?

• Membership growth
• Retention
• Program
• Money
• Trained Volunteers

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• You can have everything
• in life you want, if you'll just help enough
  other people to get what they want!
• Zig Ziglar

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Why Collaborate?

• Whats in it for Congregations?

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Whats in it for Congregations?

• Question
• What are the five most stated items in any
  strategic plan of a local congregation?

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Whats in it for Congregations?

• Answer
• Membership
• Retention of new members
• Religious training
• Volunteers / Leaders
• Money

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Religious Organizations Benefit

• Common Goals
• Enrich current program
• Scouting has high brand recognition
• Membership opportunities
• Proven youth program citizenship training,
  character development, fitness
• Outdoor resources (local and national facilities)

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Religious Organizations Benefit

• Trained Leaders
• Provides leadership training skills
• New leaders (adults may volunteer to be leaders
  because they see it as service to their religious
  organization)
• Religious organizations select the leadership
  that reflects their values

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Religious Organizations Benefit Membership

• Congregations need
• Young families
• Adult males

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Religious Organizations BenefitFaith Formation

• Religious Emblems Programs
• Are developed by the national religious
  organizations, not BSA

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Religious Organizations BenefitMembership

• The average size of a pack is 30
• 50 to 60 of youth in a pack troop or crew do not
  currently have a faith home
• These parents are pre-qualified as looking for
  values for their children
• 15 pre-qualified families already in your
  building without a faith home

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Religious Organizations BenefitMembership

• The unit leader makes a presentation on religious
  emblems using the R.E.C. / Duty to God resources.
• The congregation offers a religious emblems
  class.

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Religious Organizations BenefitMembership

• The chartering congregation offers their
  religious emblems program for their youth members
  and extends an invitation to the Scouting unit,
  especially those without a current congregational
  home.
• Invite the parents to the first class and start
  building relationships.

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Religious Organizations BenefitMembership

• If the congregation offers a religious emblem
  class to all youth in their units
• If the congregation offers a religious emblem
  class to the whole district
• The congregation expands its membership potential
  in close geographic area

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Religious Organizations Benefit Membership

• Congregations need
• Young families
• Adult males
• Retain members
• Scout parents www.scouting.org/scoutparent

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Whats in it for CouncilsProgram
98 the number of clergy who are unaware that
these religious emblems even exist!
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Journey to Excellence

• Membership
• Units
• Retention
• Advancement
• Camping

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Why Collaborate?

• Whats in it for Councils?

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66.9 of Traditional Scouting Units are
Faith-Based!
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Important Unit Growth Note . . .

• 70 of these charter partners currently have only
  one member
• of the Scouting family
• and should be prime
• prospects for the
• others!

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A Sad Truth . . . Nationally, 2/3 of all new
units organized this year will be gone by the end
of the third year!

• ? To retain 10 new units this year will require
• organizing 30 units!
• ? To retain 30 new units over the three years
• will require organizing 90 units
• AND there will be 60 bad experiences
• which will make it difficult to ever organize
• another unit in that location!

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Faith-Based Units Have Greater Longevity
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2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0
New FBU Units
Dropped FBU Units
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Faith-Based Units Have a Higher Percentage of
Youth Achieving Rank Advancement
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Rank Advance-ment
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Ranks Achieved in Other Venture Crews
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Whats in it for Councils?

• Question
• What are your councils top goals according to
  Journey to Excellence?

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Whats in it for Councils?

• Answer
• Membership
• Retention
• Advancement
• Money
• Leadership
• Program

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Whats in it for CouncilsMembership

• Youth membership
• Parents are looking for values
• Religious organizations share common goals
• Adult leaders
• Improve retention of leaders
• Religiously based individuals are more likely to
  volunteer
• Target underserved populations

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Whats in it for CouncilsProgram

• Religious organizations teach the religious
  emblems programs
• Recruit clergy for religious retreats and
  camporees
• Chaplains

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Ingredients for Success

• Both sides must clearly understand the chartered
  organization agreement before it is signed.
• BSA should use as many congregational volunteers
  as is feasible.
• The congregation must invest their best kid
  person to be the leader

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Ingredients for Success

• All volunteers should be trained by the local
  council
• Religious emblems must be promoted by the unit
  leader
• Congregations must offer a religious emblems class

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Wrap up Why Collaborate?

• Win-win-win situation
• Collaboration results in
• Stronger youth and families
• Stronger congregations
• Stronger councils

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Take Away

• 1. Every scout promises to do his Duty to God
• We need to help them achieve this
• .2. Boys wear their rank and merit badges
• to show what they have accomplished
• What to they wear to show their Duty to
  God?
• 3. Religious Emblems are an effective tools
  for
• membership, retention and new charters
• Lets use them