Bill Brodniak
Minsi Trails Council
Wood Badge
NE-IV-207
E | brodniak@oncallphoto.com
My Wood Badge Menu
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- Return to my Wood Badge Home Page
- Promote the Religious Emblems Program
- Write an Article for my Council Newsletter on the Religious Emblems Program
- Create a Mission Statement for the Catholic Committee on Scouting
- Train Adults to Become Religious Emblems Counselors
- Create a Web-Based Resource to Serve as a Reflection for Adults
- Create a Web-Based Resource of Religious Retreat Ideas
- Create a Web-Based Resource of Religious Ceremony Ideas
Promoting the Religious Emblems Program
One of the Wood Badge goals we had to set for ourselves was a "Diversity" goal. Since my focus on my Wood Badge ticket was solely with the Catholic Committee on Scouting, I chose as my diversity goal to set out and promote the overall religious emblems program. This program encompasses over 38 religions and just about every possible major faith.
As I am a strong believer in not reinventing the wheel, I found that the most recognized source of religious emblems programs is the one found on the PrayPub.org website. BSA also refers anyone interested in learning more about the religious emblem program to their website. On that website are many resources for adults and leaders to present and educate their units on the program. I researched their resources and used their wonderful Powerpoint presentation (with my own adaptations) in all of my presentations.
My initial targeted audience was to be the council's University of Scouting as well as my own district of Forks, where I gave the presentation at the monthly Roundtable meeting. Overall, I was very pleased and excited to see the response from the leaders about the program. It certainly seems that there are way too many leaders who know nothing about this program and it is an area that can certainly grow if only we take the time to invest in it.
Somehow word got out, perhaps from University of Scouting, but I was soon asked to make the presentation at two additional district Roundtable meetings. One for Trexler District and the other for South Mountain District. At both meetings I again got a wonderful response from the leaders who showed great interest and curiosity about the program. Overall, I would say that the presentation was given to at least 90 Scout leaders and was a huge success.
Religious Emblems Power Point Presentation
Below is the link to the PrayPub.org website as well as a downloadable version of the presentation that I gave. Feel free to visit the PrayPub.org website and to download my presentation as well.Click HERE to visit the PrayPub.org website.
Click on the image of my presentation to download the PPT file.
