Congratulation Mark!!! IMHO You need to stay involved with the boys. You might go out to your area churches once a month instead. We already have too many Staff members (one is too many) who are no longer involved with boys and are only working from past experience and theory. Rangers IS boys, and if you are too busy for them, them your staff assignmnet is to heavy. Even on exec committee, I tell them once in awhile that MY boy's needs come first. And even more frequently I take my boys along to help me make a presentation or training at a church. It is a minstry opportunity for them. Lastly, they asked you to be on Area Staff because of the good work your are doing with the boys: Congratulations and keep up the good work (if not as Senior Commander, at least as some active local position.) I understand your wanting to do a good job at the new position and we really do need area commanders that do their job properly, but I've seen it repeatedly in the past 16 years. Take a good commander, put him on staff, he quits working with the boys, he gets burnt out with the Area Commander thing, he quits to go back to the local outpost, and somehow working with the boys just isn't (or is) how he remembers it. And he's dead. Don't want that to happen to any of my friends! Just my humble opinion of course. Your friend Rick Barnhouse Senior Commander,Bolivar Assembly of God,Bolivar, MO So. Mo. District Special Programs Coordinator -----Original Message----- From: Mark W Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [RR] GMA letters >What a post! You said what I am feeling. Good job commander. >Congratualtions on your commission! >Are you still working in the Outpost? > >I figured as a Area Commander I would have at least 1 Wed a month where >I would be in my home outpost the rest of the time... out visiting >outposts? > >Any of you Area Commanders who have any ideas....? > >I don't have a clue! > > >Mark Jones, Ozark MO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Download a Free Royal Ranger >Database visit my website at: http://home1.gte.net/mjones02/index.html > >On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:04:36 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>All, >> >>My heartfelt thanks to all of you who wrote letters of congratulations >>to >>Danny Cox for earning his GMA. >>The ceremony is tomorrow night and, although Danny is no longer in MY >>outpost >>I have been asked to say a few words as a commander who has "impacted" >>his >>life. >> >>I confess I feel woefully inadequate for the assignment. The idea of >>having >>an impact on someone's life is a very sobering thought. I know I've >>spouted >>about this on the 'net in the past but to be brought face up to the >>idea is, >>in many respects (to me at least) frightening. >>Someone will say, "Gary, he earned his GMA, you must've done SOMETHING >>right." >>On the surface I will agree with that. But if all I/we have done is >>help a >>young man earn a medal, I fear we have fallen far short of God's goals >>for >>this ministry/program. >>I pray that whenever a Danny (or any other boy) has looked at me he >>has seen >>Jesus the Servant. >>I pray that in God's building program for these lives I was and will >>be >>always there with the needed brick and mortar and not a wrecking ball. >>I pray that whatever of "me" they have incorporated in their value >>system >>will "reach them, teach them, and keep them" for the Master Ranger. >>======================================================== >> >>If anyone else would like to write a short note to Danny, just send it >>to my >>e-mail address. I am printing them all out and putting them in a "Book >>of >>Remembrance" for him. >>========================================================= >> >>One other thing, and Duane you'll probably LOVE this. >>I've just been promoted to Area Commander for the Tidewater North >>Section >>Northeast Area. What a title! I'm already bending over from the >>weight! ;-) >>All this week my four sons have been heckling me, calling me a "Staff >>Weenie" >> >>"Gee Dad, no more sleeping on the ground with the reg'lar folks, huh?" >>"Dad, is it true that staff has jacuzzis?" >> >>Lord, deliver me! >> >>Seriously though, please pray that God will grant me His wisdom. We >>have >>several churches whose outposts have died. My vision is to impact this >> >>community with Holy Ghost fired Disciples of Jesus who are called >>Royal >>Rangers; not with some boys who can be described as "oh, you're sorta >>like >>Boy Scouts, huh?" >>That is NOT a slam at Scouts. That's a slam at just having a "good" >>program >>but not changing lives or winning souls. >> >>Ad Dare Sevire, >>Gary "Burn'n Heart" Rothwell >>Sr. Cdr. >>Outpost 59, Potomac District >>Warwick Assembly >>Hampton, VA >> >>+++++++++++++++++++++++<<"Oh, to be a dead man >>walking.">>+++++++++++++++++++++ >>_______ >> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" RTKB&G4JC! >> Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rangernet.org > >___________________________________________________________________ >Get the Internet just the way you want it. >Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! >Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. >_______ > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" 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