by Vanguard Contributor | Apr 26, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs
S.M.E. (A Discourse on Funding for Scouts) By Vaughn J. Featherstone Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board Shared at Philmont Scout Ranch 1989 *Note: S.M.E. stands for Sustaining Membership Enrollment. Today, BSA council fundraising is referred to as Friends...
by Vanguard Contributor | Mar 1, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs
I am happy to give the Boy Scout movement my full endorsement…. I was active in the promotion of this program. I feel that thousands of our boys have been helped in becoming good men by living up to the principles of the Boy Scout movement. —President Heber J....
by Vanguard Contributor | Feb 8, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs
A flag ceremony at an early LDS Boy Scout campout There is no religious side to the movement. The whole of it is based on religion, that is, on the realisation and service of God. —Lord Robert Baden-Powell The Boy Scouts of America gained momentum and popularity...
by Vanguard Contributor | Dec 14, 2017 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs
If the Boy Scout Organization can take the New York City lad out into the forests of New York State and . . . develop in him a wholesome sympathy for and appreciation of the work done by the early pathfinders of America, how much more so could such a movement here in...
by Vanguard Contributor | Mar 16, 2017 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs
Why did the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Association affiliate with the Boy Scouts of America in 1913, yet the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association of the same time period continue developing their own activity and personal progress programs? Did the Church...
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