by Vanguard Contributor | May 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Elizabeth Grace Matthew Originally published in The Deseret News (Apr 17, 2023). Used here by permission. When my oldest son wanted to join the Cub Scouts — a K-5 coed program of the Boy Scouts of America — I resisted at first. I told him we could go to one meeting...
by Vanguard Contributor | May 10, 2023 | News From The Field, Uncategorized
By Mark Blackhurst, Circle 10 Council On April 14 and 15, 2023, 150 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met at Camp James Ray (Circle Ten Council, BSA, Dallas, Tx) for an overnight family encampment. Many of those participating are currently...
by Charles Dahlquist | May 10, 2023 | President's Message, Uncategorized
PRESIDENT’S CORNER As I thought about the events of Scouting over the past 8 years, it dawned on me that through those events, while maintaining its core values as embodied in the Scout Oath and Law (and the Scout Motto and Scout Slogan), Scouting has become...
by Matt McIff | May 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
OK, so “miracle” is a little bit of a stretch, but the experience was quite serendipitous and perhaps, I believe, some providence. This year, the Scouts of the Spanish Trails District selected the theme: “Scouting without Borders” for their Spring camporee at Quail...
by Vanguard Contributor | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Bryce R. Hall Scouting has a High Adventure Award for trekking the Historic Mormon Battalion Trail. Before the pandemic, a pair of great news articles came out about Scouts (both in and out of the Church) doing a desert High Adventure Trek that re-enacted the...
by Neal Robison | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
CHRISTMAS SCOUT By Samuel D. Bogan If there are poor among you, in one of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be selfish or greedy toward them. But give freely to them, and freely lend them whatever they need. – Deut. 15:7-8 In spite of the...
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