Re: [RR] The New RR program (revised)

[Jose F. Rodriguez]

To Jonathan Trower, Thank you for your informative response it answered quite a few of my questions. Things may have changed over the years but the word of God remains the same. The true purpose of the old program was instruct kids on serving christ. So if the commaders do this correctly then the Royal Rangers will still be relevant for boys in 2002 with no changes needed to the program. Our church has had no problems keeping up with the 21st century and the training our leaders recieved was great and dealt with modern issues. The age of the program has no bearing on wether it is good, that responsibility falls in the hands of the commanders. It is the commanders job to make the program fun and entertaining. Show me one area that the program fails to keep up, if anything it seems that other commanders must been doing a poor job in keeping kids interest (I should know because I have had them before). If the commander was a bad commander with the old program he will still be one with the new program. Like I said before I am for any thing that brings more to Christ, but the national office failed to prove exactly how removing what made the RR program majorly different from the Boy Scouts will accomplish this. Now we have no unique program to offer unsaved kids. If they had to pick between two programs that are very similar, except one is a "Christian Boy Scouts" they will most likely pick the secular version. The original RR program had more intrigue and had other features that would attract unsaved kids. I unlike others, aparently, I can see the fruits of the program here in my church (which is in the 21st century). So why am I hearing from others the program needs to be change when it still works for us. As the phrase goes "If it ain't broke then don't fix it". I guess it is easier to blame the program for any short commings than yourself.                                         -CDR. HJR