Thank you all for your sound advice. I too think building leadership skills are essential to success for every young man (thats why we all love Scouting). I wanted to pose this question as a neutral party at first. My son had been met with this request; he has logged 25 to 30 service hours as Star, and was acting SPL. Twenty two of his hours were with a team of missionaries in Mexico serving the poor. He could not lead other Scouts there; he did comply with the CC and SMs request concerning this issue which will postpone his advancement several weeks are more. We thought it best for him a