Scout Sunday

Scout Sunday is on February 2, 2003, does your unit do anything to celebrate Scout Sunday?

Holy Time Machine Batman!

btps.... uh, February 6th, 2005 is Scout Sunday. We encourage all scouts to wear their uniform to church that morning. They are encouraged to either participate at their own church, or join us at our Charter Sponsor. The troop will have a pot-luck lunch afterward, folled by a Court of Honor. Since it's Super Bowl Sunday, I expect we'll get out of their fairly early.

Now, let's all sing "Let's do the time warp again!"

All scouts are invited to 9 am mass at our sponsor. Those wishing to attend their own church, are encouraged to wear their uniforms to services. The sponsor church does a real nice job - scouts are involved in the opening procession, readings, serving and collecting. A special collection is taken for our camp scholarship program (last year I think there was over $1,000 taken in). Those scouts that have earned the religious awards are recognized as well. Between cubs and boy scouts, it is quite an impressive sight. Afterwards, the units treat the congregation to donuts.

We usually have a contingent from our troop that attends the Council-wide scout mass also. It is a very nice affair with units being presented awards from the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, and all participants get a patch.

They all do a very nice job.

My son's troop hosts a pancake breakfast and participates in the service at the congregation which is it charter org. All scouts are encouraged to attend in uniform.

My own congregation incorporates into the service a presentation of religious emblems earned in the previous year. We average a presentation 3/4 years. Once again, all scouts are encouraged to attend.

never thought I would see a Rocky Horror reference in a Scout Sunday thread...

Now, let's all sing "Let's do the time warp again!"

ROFL! "Rocky Horror" & "Time Warp" are my son's current favorites!

On Scout Sunday's (BS & GS every year) we have a special mass where the Scouts come in uniform & receive their religious emblems. Afterwards there is drinks & pastries in the parish hall.

This year we also have a Lutheran Scout who will be receiving his medal at his church. Hopefully both masses will not be at the same time!

CO is a Methodist Church... We ususally have a large (uniformed) group attend, even though most are not members of this church.

We do a short flag ceremony and sit in the front row of seats. The SPL/SM present our charter to the IH at this time.

The scouting units of 64 (Pack, Troop and Crew) will be celebrating Scout Sunday on Feb 13. Our CO has communion on the first Sunday of every month, so we celebrate Scout Sunday a week late.

All of our scouts are incouraged to wear their full class A uniform to either our CO's church or their own.

The scouts will particate in the services and will received their Religious Emblems that day. After the services, we are holding a luncheon to thank the CO and it's members for their many years of support.

Hi! This is my first post. I'm a Wolf den leader at a pack chartered to our children's elementary school. Don't feel that your pack cannot celebrate Scout Sunday if they're not chartered to a church!!

For the past few years, I've coordinated a Scout Sunday celebration at our church--Roman Catholic. Scouts serve as altar servers, help with the collection, etc. This year we have some adult leaders serving as readers. We advertise in the bulletin, and get scouts and leaders from all packs, troops, etc...boys and girls! Lots of fun.

Also, for those of you who are Catholic and want something to do fun with your scouts--boys and girls--check out the Rosary Patch program on the NCCS website. We had 34 scouts participate in our second year of this four year program.

YIS, Karen

In the LDS church Scout Sunday is no longer officially observed during services. While a mention of the anniversary date may be made, uniforms aren't worn in order to maintain a higher level of reverence in the meetings. Boys age 12-18 also usually have church responsibilities that dictate a certain dress, namely white shirt and tie.

The scout parishoners of my church are encouraged to wear their uniforms to mass (Roman Catholic). The alter servers picked to serve mass are scouts and instead of wearing the white albs they wear their scout uniforms. Scouts are also the ones to do the readings at mass.

There is really nothing coordinated by my troop; however, the troop whose charter is that church in my town usually coordinate the scout participation in that mass...volunteers do not need to be from that troop, just a member of that parish.

Our troop was only chartered back in June to a Presbyterian church. None of our boys are members there. I mentioned Scout Sunday to our SM and asked if he would like for me to coordinate something with our charter. No. His take on it is that Scout Sunday needs to be observed by each boy at their home church. He was not opposed at all to doing something with our charter at a later date, but didn't want to do it on Scout Sunday. I thought it was a natural fit. Probably because this is what our old pack did at a Methodist church.

We could get our boys to all show up at the charter in full uniform, but get them to individually wear their uniform to their own church......forget it!

We're chartered to a Lutheran church and have serious support from the Men's Club at another Lutheran church. So we do two Scout Sundays, one on the 6th and the other on the 13th - the troop and pack show up in uniform and have significant participation in the services. Religious awards are given out during the services.

This year is our 50th anniversary so we will also have displays, etc., in the main public areas.

My fondest memory is last year when we had our cabin campout the same weekend. Had to really bust hump to get to the service - the wonderful aroma of wood smoke permeated our area:

" ... uniforms aren't worn in order to maintain a higher level of reverence in the meetings" - say what?

Mr. Smith didn't like olive/tan?

Last year I attended an Episcopal sevice at our CO church. Immediately afterward, I attended a Catholic service at my church (or should I say the church where I am a member so as not to upset JP?). For the record, I am neither an Episcopalian nor a member of the Catholic Church. For showing reverence, to each his own.

I would guess that about half of our scouts are members of our CO's church. Everyone is encouraged to attend that week's service in uniform, either at the CO or at their own church or temple. We also make a formal report to the CO congregation - how many scouts, how many new Eagles, etc.

Several years ago during the week of Scout Sunday we had a troop program on what it means to be "Reverent", guided by the material at http://www.inquiry.net/ideals/faiths/index.htm. It was well recieved and we might do that again this year.