Transcript Congregations Religious Emblems Religious Emblems: the Lynchpin to Membership BSA How to Have Congregations and Clergy Begging You to Start the Full Family of Scouting.

Congregations
Religious
Emblems
Religious Emblems:
the Lynchpin to Membership
BSA
How to Have
Congregations and Clergy
Begging You to Start
the Full Family of
Scouting
Stop Selling
Packs, Troops, and Crews
Stop Selling
Scouting as Ministry
Start Selling SOLUTIONS
to Congregations and
Their Needs
Whose needs are these?
•Membership growth
•Retention
•Program
•Money
•Trained Volunteers
“You can have everything
in life you want, if you'll just
help enough other people to
get what they want!”
– Zig Ziglar
Why Collaborate?
What’s in it for Congregations?
What’s in it for
Congregations?
Question:
What are the five most stated items
in any strategic plan of a local
congregation?
What’s in it for
Congregations?
Answer:
•Membership
•Retention of new members
•Religious training
•Volunteers / Leaders
•Money
Religious Organizations Benefit
• Common Goals
• Enrich current program
– Scouting has high brand recognition
– Membership opportunities
– Proven youth program: citizenship
training, character development,
fitness
– Outdoor resources (local and
national facilities)
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Religious Organizations Benefit
• Trained Leaders
– Provides leadership training skills
– New leaders (adults may volunteer
to be leaders because they see it as
service to their religious
organization)
– Religious organizations select the
leadership that reflects their values
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Membership
Congregations need
•Young families
•Adult males
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Faith Formation
Religious Emblems Programs:
• Are developed by the national
religious organizations, not BSA
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Membership
• The average size of a pack is 30
• 50 to 60% of youth in a pack troop or
crew do not currently have a faith home
• These parents are pre-qualified as
looking for values for their children
• 15 pre-qualified families already in your
building without a faith home
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Membership
• The unit leader makes a
presentation on religious emblems
using the R.E.C. / Duty to God
resources.
• The congregation offers a religious
emblems class.
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Membership
• The chartering congregation offers their
religious emblems program for their
youth members and extends an
invitation to the Scouting unit, especially
those without a current congregational
home.
• Invite the parents to the first class and
start building relationships.
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Membership
• If the congregation offers a religious
emblem class to all youth in their units
• If the congregation offers a religious
emblem class to the whole district
• The congregation expands its
membership potential in close
geographic area
Religious Organizations Benefit:
Membership
Congregations need
•Young families
•Adult males
•Retain members
•Scout parents
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What’s in it for Councils:
Program
98% = the number of clergy who are unaware that
these religious emblems even exist!
Journey to Excellence
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Membership
Units
Retention
Advancement
Camping
Why Collaborate?
What’s in it for Councils?
Information provided by the Boy Scouts of America, October 2010 monthly report.
◙ To retain 10 new units this year will require
organizing 30 units!
◙ To retain 30 new units over the three years
will require organizing 90 units
AND there will be 60 bad experiences
which will make it difficult to ever organize
another unit in that location!
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New FBU Units
Dropped FBU Units
Ranks Achieved in Other Venture Crews
What’s in it for Councils?
• Question:
What are your council’s top goals
according to Journey to
Excellence?
What’s in it for Councils?
Answer:
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Membership
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Retention
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Advancement
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Money
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Leadership
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Program
What’s in it for Councils:
Membership
• Youth membership
– Parents are looking for values
– Religious organizations share common
goals
• Adult leaders
– Improve retention of leaders
– Religiously based individuals are more
likely to volunteer
• Target underserved populations
What’s in it for Councils:
Program
• Religious organizations teach the
religious emblems programs
• Recruit clergy for religious
retreats and camporees
• Chaplains
Ingredients for Success
•Both sides must clearly understand
the chartered organization agreement
before it is signed.
•BSA should use as many
congregational volunteers as is
feasible.
•The congregation must “invest” their
best kid person to be the leader
Ingredients for Success
•All volunteers should be trained
by the local council
•Religious emblems must be
promoted by the unit leader
•Congregations must offer a
religious emblems class
Wrap up: Why Collaborate?
• Win-win-win situation
• Collaboration results in:
• Stronger youth and families
• Stronger congregations
• Stronger councils
Take Away
• 1. Every scout promises to do his “Duty to God”
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We need to help them achieve this
• .2. Boys wear their rank and merit badges
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to show what they have accomplished
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What to they wear to show their “Duty to God”?
• 3. Religious Emblems are an effective tools for
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membership, retention and new charters
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Let’s use them