Fall Fellowship

FRIDAY

6:00-8:00: Registration – Woodruff Dining Hall

8:30-11:00: Multiple Activities

• Chapter Flags / Totem Design  -Carlock Pavilion
• Board Games

• AIA Drumming- Rizor Porch

10:15: Cracker Barrel – Woodruff Dining Hall

11:00-11:15: Clean-up Cracker Barrel reset for breakfast

SATURDAY

7:30: Mile Run/Walk – Meet at Donnell Nature Center
8:00: Breakfast – Woodruff Dining Hall
8:45-10:00: Morning Session 1
10:15-12:15: Morning Session 2
12:30: Lunch – Woodruff Dining Hall
1:15-2:15: Camp wide Service Project – youth and adult (required, location TBA)
2:30- 4:30: Afternoon Session
4:00: Lodge Officer Petitions due – Woodruff Dining Hall
5:00-6:00: Lodge Officer Forum and Elections – Mack Mountain Studio (all youth attend)
5:00-6:00: Trailblazer Adventure Camp Training – Carlock Pavilion (all adults attend)
6:30: Brotherhood Trail begins – (TBA)
6:30: Dinner – Woodruff Dining Hall
8:15: Closing Campfire -Nature Field – Vigil Honor Callout – Brotherhood Ceremony – Nature Field
9:30: AIA Drumming – Rizor Porch
9:30: Switch Games – Carlock Pavilion
10:15: Cracker Barrel – Woodruff Dining Hall
11:00-11:15: Clean

SUNDAY

7:40: Interfaith Worship – Carlock Pavilion
8:15: Breakfast – Woodruff Dining Hall

9:00: Camp clean-up by chapter
10:30: (Once camp is clean) LEC – Mack Mountain Studio

Interfaith Service
Fall Fellowship
Woodruff Scout Camp

Opening Prayer

Mighty God, thank you for the opportunity to be here in the midst of the beauty and majesty of
your creation. Give us the strength to endure the challenges of this day, the wisdom to enjoy
each moment, and the courage to push ourselves further than we ever have before. Bless each
Scout and each leader and help us each to grow into the people you call us to be.
-Amen.

Responsive Reading

Leader: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Scouts: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Leader: When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which
you have set in place,

Scouts: what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Leader: Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the
starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.

Scouts: Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Leader: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day
after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.

Scouts: There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into
all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.

Leader: Praise the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with
splendor and majesty.

Scouts: He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and
lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters

Leader: He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind. He makes winds his
messengers, flames of fire his servants.

Scouts: The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.

Leader: May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works-

Scouts: he who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains, and they
smoke.

Leader: I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

ALL: May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD.

Prayer

As we come together at this special time, let us pause a moment to appreciate the opportunity for good company and to thank all those, past and present, whose efforts have made this event possible. We reap the fruits of our society, our Country, and our civilization, and we take joy in the bounties of Nature on this happy occasion. Let us also wish that, someday, all people on Earth may enjoy the same good fortune that we share.

Inspirational Reading

“Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God,” – this appears to be the commandment in all religions. This need not frighten anyone. He who devotes himself to service with a clear conscience, will day by day grasp the necessity for it in greater measure, and will continually grow richer in faith. The path of service can hardly be trodden by one who is not prepared to renounce self-interest, and to recognize the conditions of his birth. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large. ― Mahatma Ghandi

Message
The Pursuit of Happiness

There was once a group of 100 people attending a seminar on personal development. In the middle of their talk, the speaker stops and decides to run an impromptu group activity. He hands out a balloon to each attendee and tells them to write their name on it. The balloons are then collected and placed in an adjacent room.

The speaker then instructs the 100 attendees to enter that room and, within 5 short minutes, find the balloon with their name on it. Pandemonium breaks loose as they charge in, pushing and colliding with each other as they desperately search for their name. The 5 minutes pass and nobody succeeds.

The speaker then tells each person to pick up any random balloon and give it to the person whose name is written on it. Within a few minutes everyone has their balloon back. He then said, “What just happened with those balloons is exactly what happens in our search for happiness. We frantically look for it all around us, not knowing where it is.”

“Yet our happiness lies in the happiness of others. By giving them their happiness, you get yours.”

Moral of the story: Happiness and fulfilment rarely come from selfish pursuits, but almost always come from doing good deeds for others. By helping others, we help ourselves.

Closing / Benediction

May kindness grow within us, bringing deeper awareness of life’s facets, touching all who we meet, with a good feeling, brightening the day of others, in our wake.
May each action we take, be rooted in kindness. In everything, there is a kind and unkind way to move forward, to resolve a situation, to be.
May the depth of our kindness increase, daily

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