My two cents,
We've tossed this around at our outpost.
Switching nights, changing this or that.
I've come to this conclusion:
You're always going to have boys who would rather go to Youth than stay in
rangers, something to do with hormones I think.
You're also always going to have boys who are diehard Rangers.
I have a unique relationship with our Youth pastor, he's a GMA.
We communicate, we fellowship, I'm his armorbearer and he speaks up for me at
Church staff meetings.
I have been blessed with a STUD for Trailblazer cdr.
He's doing all the right things, his boys are bouncing off the walls they're
so fired up. Got boys leaving youth to come back to Rangers.
You put the outpost in their (the boys) hands. Empower them. You let them
them know that you're not ashamed to be known as a Ranger and they shouldn't
be either.
When I went on the youth missions trip (at the pastor's invite) they needed
me to help tie down a load ( ropecraft, YEAH!), and I was able to teach them
some things while hiking around Newfooundland. They discovered that Rangers
are cool.
Make it exciting. Make it REAL. Make it theirs. They will come. And they will
stay.
Like I said, $.02
Ad Dare Sevire,
Gary "Burn'n Heart" Rothwell
Sr. Cdr.
Outpost 59, Potomac District
Warwick Assembly
Hampton, VA
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