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AC 9	ON & SI
AC 8	Etowah & Nagatamen
AC 7	Echota & Kennesaw
AC 6	Lowanne Nimat & TQB

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Spring Gathering 2026

Egwa Empire

Schedule

Friday, March 20th
6:00 – 9:00: Registration and Check-in – Dining Hall
6:00 – 9:00: Friday Night Activities –  Dining Hall
9:00 – Hercules –  Dining Hall
10:15: Cracker Barrel – Dining Hall
11:00: LIGHTS OUT

Saturday, March 21st

7:30 Mile Run/Walk –  Dining Hall
8:00: Breakfast –  Dining Hall
8:30 – 12:15: Activities

Capture the Flag
 Etowah vs Lowanne 8:30am
Achewon  vs Kennesaw 9:15am
Nagatamen vs Tella Qualla Boundary 10am
Osten Nokose & Silepl vs Echota & Thennethlofkee 10:45am

12:30: Lunch – Love Dining Hall
1:15-2:15: Campwide Service Project – youth and adult (required, location TBA)
2:15 – 5:00: Activities  

Wishchxin
Etowah vs Lowanne 2:15pm
Achewon  vs Kennesaw 3pm
Nagatamen vs Tella Qualla Boundary 3:45pm
Osten Nokose & Silepl vs Echota & Thennethlofkee 4:30pm

4:30:  Brotherhood Trail begins – Underneath Dining Hall Porch
6:15: Dinner – Dining Hall
7:15: Brotherhood Ceremony – Osceola Campsite
8:00-8:45: Closing Shows – Dining Hall 

*Tentative to Brotherhood Ceremony release

8:45-10:00: Tailypo – Games and Crafts, Dining Hall

Tug-o-war
Etowah vs Lowanne
Achewon  vs Kennesaw
Nagatamen vs Tella Qualla Boundary
Osten Nokose & Silepl vs Echota & Thennethlofkee

*Tentative to Evening Show ending
11:00: LIGHTS OUT

Sunday, March 22nd
7:50: Interfaith Service – Dining Hall
8:15: Breakfast – Dining Hall
9:00: Camp clean-up by Chapter – assignments posted on mobile event site

 

Once camp is clean TBD: LEC – Bill Loeble Room

Interfaith Service

Spring Gathering 2026

Bert Adams Scout Camp 

 

Welcome, and thank you for coming to today’s Interfaith Service. 

Since the theme for this Spring Gathering is Ancient Rome, I thought first I would share with you a little bit about what you might experience if this service were being held at this time of year in Ancient Rome.  

The Robigalia, an ancient agricultural festival would have been celebrated in honor of Robigo, the goddess of blight, red rust, or mildew, was celebrated on April 25, when the crops were most vulnerable to disease. A priest and his followers, all dressed in white, would have walked to a sacred grove to offer an animal sacrifice. Incense, wine, and the other sacrificial items would have been thrown on the fire and a prayer offered. “Scaly Robigo, goddess of rust, spare Ceres’ grain; let silky blades quiver on the soil’s skin. Let growing crops be nourished by a friendly sky and stars, until they ripen for the scythe…Spare us, I pray keep scabrous hands from the harvest. Harm no crops. The power to harm is enough.”

 Robigo, the goddess is evoked to avert harm because she has the capacity to create it.  

The early Christians in Rome shifted sharply from these kinds of festivals and Pope Gregory the First pronounced Rogation Day (from rogare, “to ask or beseech forgiveness” to atone for a lack of seriousness during Lent and eventually replace The Robigalia. 

A plague came at about this time and the early Christians believed that it was a punishment from God for their boisterous celebration and that this was a pestilence sent to cause people to die suddenly, while in playing or eating or talking and sometimes they sneezed as they died, so that when any person was heard sneezing people said to them: “God help you, or Christ help” And that is why, to this day, we say “bless you” when someone sneezes.

 

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 Let us share some verse that is a bit more modern in taste: From the Irish poet John O’Donohue – 

 “For Longing” 

Blessed be the longing that brought you here

And quickens your soul with wonder.

 

May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire

That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.

 

May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease

To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.

 

May the forms of your belonging—in love, creativity, and friendship—

Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.

 

May the one you long for long for you.

 

May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your desire.

 

May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your feeling.

 

May your mind inhabit life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world.

 

May your heart never be haunted by ghost-structures of old damage.

 

May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.

 

May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.

 

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 This prayer is adapted from Ash & Starlight: prayers for the chaos & grace of daily life by Arianne Braithwaite Lehn – (Let us pray)

 

As spring awakens my physical senses,

I ask, God, for you to awaken my inner senses.

 

May my mind open and blossom

to the longings you’ve placed within me…

to the steps and path that will

satisfy the desires of my heart…

to the hopes and passions

you’ve planted in every

one of your children…

 

May I seek what will truly fulfill them.

May I journey toward their Source.

May I be guided by your gentle and wise Spirit.

 

It is never too late to be

what you call me to be.

Even as it takes greatest courage

and deepest humility.

 

With your help, I will open myself to

what I never expected before,

never experienced before,

and never thought possible.

 

Amen.

 

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At this time I’d like to offer you the song “I Wish You Peace” by The Eagles. While you listen please reflect on the lyrics and on what blessings you wish for your fellow Arrowmen. After the music I will ask if any of you would like to share your thoughts with us today.  

 

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I Wish You Peace-

 

I wish you peace when the cold winds blow

 

Warmed by the fire’s glow

 

I wish you comfort in the, the lonely time

 

And arms to hold you when you ache inside

 

Wish you hope when things are going bad

 

Kind words when times are sad

 

I wish you shelter from the, the raging wind

 

Cooling waters at the fever’s end

 

 

[Chorus]

 

I wish you peace when times are hard

 

A light to guide you through the dark

 

And when storms are high and your, your dreams are low

 

I wish you the strength to let love grow on

 

Wish you the strength to let love your love flow (Chorus]

 

Wish you peace when times are har

 

A light to guide you through the dar

 

And when storms are high and your, your dreams are low

 

Wish you the strength to let love grow on

 

I wish you the strength to let love flow on

 

I wish you the strength to let love flow on

 

I wish you the strength to let love go.

 

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Would any of you be willing to share your wishes and prayers for your fellow Arrowmen?

 

Thank you for your prayers.

 

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“Let Us Be Happy On Earth” – from the Mohawk tribes of New York.

 

Oh Great Spirit, Creator of all things;

 

Human beings, trees, grass, berries.

 

Help us, be kind to us.

 

Let us be happy on earth 

 

Let us lead our children to a good life and old age.

 

These our people; give them good minds to love one another.

 

Oh Great Spirit,

 

Be kind to us,

 

Give these people the favor to see green trees,

 

Green grass, flowers and berries this next spring;

 

So we all meet again.

 

Oh Great Spirit, We ask of you.

 

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Until we meet again, let us all remember to love one another and be grateful for the bonds of our Brotherhood.

 

 This concludes today’s service.

 

 

Coming Soon!