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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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These are some good ideas, guys, thanks for sharing. I’m going to try Tony’s suggestion of Emoji Word Telephone and Who Am I?
At Battalion 8086, we’ve had two online meetings with games:
Last week we tried a snowball throwing contest. The guys took their phones, tablets, or laptops outside and propped them up while trying to pack the ultimate snowball. Then they found a tree 30-50 feet away and let loose. “Contest” was a little bit of a misnomer though, because there wasn’t a judge available to decide who threw the farthest or most accurately. It didn’t really matter though, because the whole point was to add in a little bit of physical action and fun… which it did.
We’ve got some guys who are building a treehouse in their backyard, so one night they showed us the work that they’ve finished and explained what was still coming. It’s not quite a game, per-se, but it sort of accomplished the same purpose for us.
This coming week, I’ve assigned games to one of our older guys (7th grade). I think he is planning to lead an online board game.
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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?