Great ROI (Return on Investment)
What investments are worth the risk? The most rewarding investments are those that produce far-reaching and continuing results rather than those that produce a one-time…
Category: Brigade Basics
To Cook or Not to Cook?
We’ve generally three choices for feeding our Brigadiers when we take to the field, whether backpacking, paddling or car camping. While the choice might be…
Helping Junior Leaders Succeed
One of the greatest joys I have as a Senior Leader in Brigade is to work with the junior leaders in Battalion. Having once been…
Strategies for Leading Games
At first glance, from the very connotation of the words, it would appear that the “game time” would be the easiest, happiest, portion of any…
A Battalion’s Secret Sauce: Expedition Behavior
My first Battalion trip, I watched the leaders drop two teams on the Tuscarora Trail, in a light rain, well after sunset, their destination seven…
Do this one thing and dads will be asking you to become Stockade leaders
In my 20 years as a Stockade Chief Ranger I was always on the lookout for Christian men who were passionate and committed about investing…
Positive Ways To Keep Group Order
“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child …” Proverbs 22:15 Boys don’t need an audience or outside influence to cause trouble. Left…
Best Practices: Dave White
Dave White was the chief ranger of a Stockade at Bethany Baptist Church in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Up to 45 boys attended regularly assisted by…
Following Through On Spiritual Decisions
One of the biggest struggles in a boy’s spiritual life normally comes right after he has received Christ as his Savior. This is the moment…
The Internal Champion
I’ll let you in on a secret. By-and-large pastors are most influenced by their own people; the people who they serve. As a Brigade leader you serve…