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Motivating your boys while engaging men in your church
I had a great opportunity to sit down with mike Esau @mesau who is Chief Ranger of a Stockade in Turlock, CA. he gave me a great idea for how to get cool stuff to encourage your boys with. He put together an amazon wish list and he created a postcard with a QR code that takes people directly to that list.
He hands this to men in his church and asks them to consider purchasing something from the list that he then puts in tubs ready for boys who need to be rewarded for some good work.
Here is the wish list, though over time it may disappear so I have taken some screen shots so you can see what it looks like and what kinds of fun items he adds to it: </font>https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3AJ1599DF4V3M?ref=cm_sw_sm_r_un_un_Pg30UfCcGk7XH
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David,
I just added another incentive for receiving a reward. This year I added the whole chapter of Psalms 23 for the boys to learn at home. If they can tell us rangers the whole chapter by memorization, they will get to choose from our tubs which we call the CSB camp store. Every year I plan on choosing a chapter in the Bible for the boys to earn this extra incentive. When I was growing up in church, my dad was the teacher of an all boys, 4th through 6th grade Sunday School class. All of us boys would win a fishing lure for memorizing Psalms 23. I still have this old wooden lure displayed in my office. The men of my church love to purchase these items for the boys. They are already asking when they can purchase something for this new year. I let the boys know that the men of the church are encouraging them to grow in their faith. I want CSB to be bigger than just a Children’s Ministry but a part of the men of the church cheering the boys on to grow into Godly men.
Chief Ranger Mike Esau
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I still have little tokens like that that I have kept from when I was in stockade. It is easy for grown men to forget how important little things like that are to boys.
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I wish the men of our church were this engaged to our battalion.. but it is a work in progress i guess. we are still super young (I was one of the first generations through brigade, we (re) started in the late 80s and i started brigade in 95 i think. hard to believe im on 8 years of leadership already.
I am working on incentives for our boys. I like the fishing lure idea.
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I love the idea of having the boys memorize different chapters. We had the boys memorize Psalms 23. We designed a patch they would receive after reciting it to the group at formation.
Question: is anyone having the stockade or battalion memorized the 7points of valor (passage & statement). Has anyone designed a patch for the 7 points of valor..
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I have actually been contemplating how to incorporate the 7 points into our battalion as a part of our culture. I need a time/way to get them interacting with, thinking about, reciting, and memorizing them through the year. Any ideas?
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Would there be a value in earning a challenge coin made specifically for those who have the 7 points of valor memorized. We could make it a bit larger than a .50 cent piece—a token that can be carried in the pocket as a reminder.
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