News - May 2012
Posted by Doug | Filed under News from the National Director
District Directors,
National Camporama and our 50th Anniversary Celebration are just around the corner on July 9-13, at Camp Eagle Rock in southwest Missouri. The plans are finalized, and it is going to be amazing. Visit www.NationalCamporama.com for full details and to register. We will have fun, make friends, celebrate, and meet with God!
See you there!
Doug Marsh
National Director
CAMPORAMA
Are you a lead, youth, or children’s pastor? Do you know one attending 2012 Camporama X? Camporama is designed to bring boys closer to God and His plan of adventure for their lives. This means we need any and all pastors at the altar during the evening services. Rev. Harry Hunt is coordinating the altar workers for Camporama. Please have all pastors contact him at hdhunt@cros.net and leave him your name, district, and contact info.
UPDATES TO NATIONAL WEB SITE
Bible merit transition info – http://www.royalrangers.com/programs/content/?targetBay=94f5fb7c-2b39-4ee2-8f2b-f24920ec859c&ModID=2&Process=DisplayArticle&RSS_RSSContentID=21814&RSS_OriginatingChannelID=1155&RSS_OriginatingRSSFeedID=4288&RSS_Source=
New Buffalo awards – http://royalrangers.com/programs/advancement/
Advancement System changes to DR, AR, and ER – http://royalrangers.com/programs/advancement/
Expedition Rangers Spirit Challenge Alternatives – http://royalrangers.com/programs/content/?targetBay=94f5fb7c-2b39-4ee2-8f2b-f24920ec859c&ModID=2&Process=DisplayArticle&RSS_RSSContentID=17232&RSS_OriginatingChannelID=1155&RSS_OriginatingRSSFeedID=4288&RSS_Source=
New Member Requirements – http://royalrangers.com/programs/advancement/
Together Plan updates – http://royalrangers.com/programs/content/?targetBay=94f5fb7c-2b39-4ee2-8f2b-f24920ec859c&ModID=2&Process=DisplayArticle&RSS_RSSContentID=20485&RSS_OriginatingChannelID=1155&RSS_OriginatingRSSFeedID=4288&RSS_Source=
HANDBOOKS
The new Discovery Rangers handbook is available now. The Adventure Rangers handbook is in production and should be available for purchase later this month. The Expedition Rangers handbook will be available sometime in June.
PATHFINDERS TO COSTA RICA
Camp Summit in Costa Rica is in need to team to do construction and maintenance projects. For more information, contact Beth Kinney at bkinney@royalrangersinternational.com or 417-595-0603.
ADVENTURE COURSE & RR BIRTHDAY GIFT
At LEAD2012, we challenged individuals, outposts, districts, and regions to sacrifice financially by giving $365 (one dollar per day for one year), to help build an Adventure Course for Royal Rangers to use for years to come. Because of those who stepped up by investing sacrificially, we are excited to announce the Adventure Course is very near completion for the 2012 National Camporama. Imagine soaring down a 300’ or 500’ zip line as you take in the panoramic view of Hawkeye Mountain from atop a 60’ tower! That’s just a taste of what many of the boys will experience on the Adventure Course. Based on their age, boys will also experience the thrill and excitement of being on bouldering walls, climbing and rappelling towers, high ropes course, and of course zip lines. The course is located just to the east of the blue pavilion. Its first official first use will be at Camporama. We have included photos of the high ropes course and the bouldering wall.
Thanks to again to our partners who have given to this Royal Rangers birthday gift. If you haven’t already fulfilled your commitment of $365, we ask you please send in your donation as soon as possible. If you did not make a donation, it’s not too late. Please send in your $365 commitment today with “RR Birthday Gift” in the memo line and be a part of a community of men who have invested in the future of our national campground, Camp Eagle Rock.
News - April 2012
Posted by Doug | Filed under News from the National Director
Dear District Directors:
We had a great LEAD! Thank you for attending so faithfully. We are gaining momentum. The last few days I’ve been resting, praying, and thanking God. I asked Him, “How do we capture and leverage the momentum from this conference?” Here is what I think He is telling us:
1. Prayer: Our vision is to “Influence more boys and young men than ever, more effectively than ever!” Let’s pray it into existence.
Let’s ask God to increase our influence in breadth (growth in number of outposts) and depth (spiritual impact on the individual boys and young men in all our groups). Let’s ask God to make us effective in connecting with pastors, inspiring and training current and potential leaders, and wise in building a healthy community of men in our district, across the nation, and around the world.
2. Share your enthusiasm: First, share with those inside Rangers. Celebrate the fact there is a positive culture shift taking place in Royal Rangers. If a church leader is on the bubble, thinking about giving Rangers the axe, a disgruntled leader makes that decision easy. But a fired up, focused, and submitted mentor will inspire any church leader to wholeheartedly stay the course.
One of our job duties is to be cheerleader-in-chief. As someone wiser than me once said, “Leaders are dealers in hope.” Let your personal commitment to our future rub off on the Rangers leaders in your district. Your enthusiasm will fill them with hope, expectation, and confidence.
Second, enthusiastically share our vision of RR2.0 with church leaders everywhere. Pretend they have never heard of Royal Rangers because frankly they don’t know about RR2.0. Not yet, anyway! But you’re about to change that. Let them know we are not a camping, scouting, or military program. What we are is a mentoring program for future men—we evangelize, disciple, and develop young leaders. They can choose the activities, the style, the feel, and the look. Serve them by letting them know there are many ways to do Rangers and offering to help them discover what will work best for them.
3. Make your district RR2.0 compliant: We talked about this in our district director’s breakaway. It means you embody the ideals of RR2.0—being effective, flexible, and interconnected. To this end, please review the Excellence Initiative materials, and if you have not done so already, complete the assessments.
4. Camporama: Promote, Promote, Promote. Today is exactly 100 from the start of Camporama.
It’s open to every Ranger leader and boy, but it’s also open to pastors and their sons and to all fathers and their sons ages 9-17. This is our 50th anniversary celebration and the ultimate event for guys from all our churches whether they have Royal Rangers. (For those churches without Rangers, use Camporama as a way to awaken their interest. Invite them. Hook them up with equipment if necessary. Pair churches without Rangers with churches that do and who can represent RR2.0 well.) Let’s catch this God-made wave of momentum and ride it!
Doug
PS – As they become available, audio files from LEAD will be posted on our ministry web site at RoyalRangers.com/LEAD.
100 DAYS UNTIL NATIONAL CAMPORAMA
During the district director meeting Friday afternoon at LEAD, we promised an update on how you can receive information on who is attending Camporama from your district. Please email registration@ag.org as often as needed to receive this information. Please remember that in order to save the most money, early-bird registration is due on or before May 15, 2012.
Your regional coordinator, or his designate, will be working on the camp layout for the region and your district. Please work closely with him so he can provide everyone with the optimum camp layout.
If you need promotional materials, contact our office for posters, brochures, and DVD’s to help outposts in their promotion of Camporama. All Camporama resources are available free of charge.
LIKE US on FACEBOOK
Let’s spread the word about Royal Rangers! Go to our national ministry web site, www.RoyalRangers.com and click “Like” to like us on Facebook. (Please send this to everyone on your list, message your friends, and spread the word. Thanks!)
MAKE THE CASE FOR ROYAL RANGERS
We are excited to partner with HandsFirst hand sanitizer as the officially recognized fundraiser for Royal Rangers. One of the more unique aspects of this program is that every level of Royal Rangers benefits. Local outposts receive $100, districts receive $6, and regions receive $2 for each case sold. For more information, including resources such as videos, print materials, etc., designed specifically to help local outposts get started, go to http://nationalcamporama.ag.org/fundraising.
RANGER SAFETY & TRAINING
Ranger Safety has been updated and now available online. You can find the link on the RR website link at: http://royalrangers.com/training/general/. Ranger Safety replaces the Safety and the Church course.
All Continuous Learning Elective ribbons are to be processed through the district. The link to the guidelines and requirements is found on the RR web site at the Outpost Leader Advancement Levels page. A sample application can be provided to the district by request from the national training office.
Please promote all national training events scheduled this year. WCO, RKTC, and NRMC need pre-registration numbers at least 30 days in advance to guarantee the event. Don’t wait until after Camporama to register.
DISTRICT EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD (DELA) RECOGNITION
We appreciate all the hard work each of you does as district director. It’s important we take time out each year at LEAD to recognize you for your accomplishments. For the last few years, we have recognized (by means of a small token) all district directors during a general session, regardless of whether the DELA was earned or not. Those who earned the DELA had been recognized in their regions’ breakaway.
Beginning next year at LEAD, we will only recognize district directors who have earned their DELA in a general session, instead of their regional breakaway. The application, and subsequent award, serves as a score card of what you accomplished as a district director in the last 12 months. The time frame begins in September of each year and runs through August of the following year. So right now, we have completed 8 months of the current award period.
If you aren’t sure exactly what you need to earn the DELA, click http://agwebservices.org/Content/Resources/District%20Executive%20Leadership%20Award–fillable.pdf.
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