Member Joshua
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I know that CSB offers “Mentoring out of the Box” and “1-on-1 Adventures” for situations like this, but I think the Tree Climber material could work well for this same purpose. Especially if you have a few CSB alumni involved in the group. And once you have it going, it should be much easier for your local church to see the value of the group and want to make it official.
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At Sequoia Brigade Camp, in California, we are gearing up for our regular offering of camps. Most of our camps are wilderness adventures and do not involve a residential facility. We’ve had to be careful following all of the various guidelines (some of our camps cross multiple counties), but we were able to do it successfully last year and, with God’s help, will be able to do it even better this year.
Backpacking, canoeing, and surf camps seemed to be the easiest, along with our father-son and father-daughter camps. The most challenging was our base camp because it starts and finishes at a public campground and has larger number of individual boys.
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We often have a few preschoolers join our Father Son Team Day and compete with the Tree Climbers. It usually works well. At that age, dad’s attitude has a lot to do with the success of the event/ministry. When we have a preschooler sign up for Father Son Team Day, I talk to the dad to let him know that his son will be on the smaller side. There’s rarely any problems.
I would think that Tree Climber materials would be even better suited to preschoolers than our Father Son Team Day.
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Wow, as a camper in the mid-80s, I was probably one the beneficiary of this Northern Frontier / Sequoia Brigade exchange!
Glad to hear that you may be able to open camp this summer.
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Thanks for sharing Bill, it’s great when we can see the fruit so clearly!
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I hear ya… it is hard to plan with ever-changing rules.
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Registration has several purposes and benefits. It provides discounts in the store, which can add up to a significant amount depending on the size of your unit. But more importantly, it brings your church’s unit into the larger CSB culture: Leadership Training, Camporama, Father Son Team Days, Leadership Advance, Camp Events, etc. etc. It also provides access to a Regional Director who is available to help your church’s ministry grow and thrive.
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As it stands now, most of the Tree Climber, Stockade, and Battalion materials are available to the general public in the CSB store (both Canada & USA). Awards, patches, and perhaps a few other items require one to be part of an official registered unit. I don’t know much about the history here and if/when/why it may have changed. For what it’s worth, I bought a bunch of Stockade books as a “guest” some 4-5 years ago.
Canadian Store: https://www.csbbc.org/csb-canada-store.html
USA Store: https://store.csbministries.org/
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You bring up a good point about the importance of church support. Church support is needed for an official Tree Climbers group and church support is also important for our own personal discipleship in the areas that God has given us passionate hearts. Thank you.
In this case, there is no existing ministry for the specific group and I think that his goal is to show church leadership that there men in the congregation who are able and willing to step up and serve. I’ve known several pastors who were too overwhelmed to start something new, but would have been happy to see the men in their congregation take initiative. Once the group was up and running, they were happy add it to the church’s official ministry.
So I guess that a follow on question would be–at what point do you return to the pastor with your ad-hoc group?
