It might have been the last day of February, but the chapter did hold its monthly leadership meeting and activity. Since a number of chapter members didn't make it, we decided to fill everyone in on what happened.
We started the leadership meeting with a review of the goals we'd set.
In our last blog post, we talked about one of these — Unit Elections. Our goal is to hold four elections each month in February, March, and April; so far, we're ahead of our goal.
We also talked about our goal to get the word out about our meetings. We're doing better at this, and thought we might see some benefits from it at the activity later in the evening.
After talking about our goals, we turned our attention to several upcoming events. Key among them is our May Fellowship. We decided not to try to form a brotherhood ceremony team at this point (we just don't have the resources). Instead, we will be working to form a call-out ceremony team.
As our leadership meeting started to wind down, two more chapter members showed up for the Activity. Since we've been hovering around two attendees, this seemed like an indication our publicity efforts have been working. After a quick opening ceremony, we talked about our calendar for March, April, and May.
In March, we're having a special Five Chapters event. One of the other Provo and Orem chapters has put together a game and movie overnighter. We'll meet at the Scout office at 6PM on Friday, March 6 and close things up at noon on Saturday. We'll also be making shirts that can be worn as part of ceremonies. We really want to see everyone possible there.
In April, the Section W2S is holding the 2009 Section Conclave on April 24-26. We're not going to hold a chapter activity this month, and hope that everyone will go to Conclave instead — take some time to register if you'd like to meet us there.
In May, we'll be holding a call out ceremony at the District Camporee on the 8th and 9th. The next week we'll be holding our Fellowship. We will be holding an Ordeal there, and if we can get things worked out, we'll hold a Brotherhood ceremony as well. If that's important to you, let us know.
After previewing the next several months, we organized our ceremony team and held a first practice for the call-out. The team will meet twice a month until the camporee to polish their parts and present the best ceremony that they can.
To close things up, we broke out the pizza and played 'Apples to Apples' while we ate. It was great to see everyone that came, but we missed the Lakota arrowmen that couldn't make it. We sure hope to see you next time.
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