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Some Scouting History

The Scouting movement in Lutheran churches began with a number of individual Scout units under the sponsorship of congregations or auxiliary organizations. After a number of Lutheran-sponsored units were organized, cooperative relationships were established with the Boy Scouts of America through a contact made by the Boys Work Committee of the American Federation of Lutheran Brotherhoods and through correspondence and conferences with the Board for Young People's Work of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

On May 11, 1943, representatives of a number of Lutheran bodies met in Chicago and organized the Lutheran Committee of Scouting. At that meeting, the first edition of the scouting manual, Scouting in the Lutheran Church, was approved. In 1955 the name of the committee was changed to the National Lutheran Committee on Scouting, and in January 1966 to the National Lutheran Commission on Scouting as it became an independent organization. The commission and its predecessors assisted in various ways in developing the Scouting program in Lutheran churches. Principles to be observed were defined and policies were suggested for the guidance of leaders of Lutheran-sponsored Scout units.

          In November 1966 the constituting convention of the Lutheran Council in the United States of America, acting upon the request of the cooperating church bodies, incorporated the work of the National Lutheran Commission on Scouting into the Office of National Youth Agency Relationships.

From the booklet "Scouting in the Lutheran Church"

 

From the 1976 Bicentennial Committee of College Point, Inc.

College Point, New York "lays claim to the first Boy Scout troop in the United States, Troop 2, whose charter was issued in August, 1910. The Boy Scouts, started in England a few years earlier, were introduced to America by a group of public-minded men who saw the great value of the scouts as a physical and character building organization. A Mr. Embree began the troop in College Point, which through a mistake in numbering was called Troop 2 instead of Troop 1. The national Council of Scouts, however, recognizes the troop as the oldest in the nation.

          One of the first scoutmasters in College Point was Rudolph Zwicke, who belonged to the organization from the beginning. Mr. Zwicke, 91 years old at this writing, has been called the 'Scoutmaster's Scoutmaster.' A member of Troop 2, he is the oldest scouter in America, if not in the world. He had a place of honor in the 1976 bicentennial parade."

Submitted by Sandra Zwicke Fiorentino (Rudolph Zwicke was her grandfather's brother)

Scouting News

 

Neuse Basin District
Cub Scout Pack 494

Cub Master Len Long

 

Cub Scout meetings, den/program with parents/leaders is held on Thursday nights from 6:30 p.m. to

8:00 p.m. at St. Andrew Lutheran Church.  Pack meetings are on the last Thursday of each month

 

     

 

2010/ 2011 Events

Fall Family Campout; Popcorn fundraiser; Train station field trip; Fall festival; Cub Day at Camp Bonner; Pumpkin Patch; Scouting for Food; Christmas ornament auction & Christmas Party; Visit Magnolia House with Christmas goodies; Bike Rodeo; Scout Show; Memorial Day Flag Ceremony; Blue & Gold Banquet; Pinewood Derby; Scout Day with New Bern River Rats.

 

 

 

 

 

        EASTERN CAROLINA COUNCIL BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER

 

 

NATIONAL LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION ON SCOUTING

 

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