So. Missouri Commanders Conference this weekend.

Our Commanders Conference this weekend. Looking forward to seeing everyone and pow wow planning and updates.

Friday, April 11, 2014 Saturday, April 12, 2014

8:00am – Ranger Basics, Ranger Essentials & 1st Aid/CPR 7:00am – Registration/Coffee/Doughnuts

3:00pm – Begin Registration 8:00am – General Session (Gym)

7:00pm – Fellowship & Rally Time (Gym) 8:30am – Ladies Activities (Fireside Room)

8:00pm – CPR Refresher 10:20am-4pm – Workshops

8:00pm – Fund Raising Auction for Campground Construction 10:20am-5pm – Ranger Basics II (Continued)

8:00pm – 10:00 – Ranger Basics II 11:45am – Lunch and Awards Reception



For any session listed below, once it starts, it will continue in the same room for the specified number of sessions. A person will need to attend all sessions of the applicable class to receive credit (if applicable) for the class.



Workshop Schedule

Friday

8:00am-5:40pm WC-203 – Adult Leaders Training Track – Ranger Essentials– Richard Michael and team – Pre-registration Required

8:00am-5:40pm WC-204 – Adult Leaders Training Track – Ranger Basics – Rick Dostal and team – Pre-registration Required

8:00am-4:00pm Room 102 – Adult Leaders Training Track – First Aid/CPR – Laurance Brown – Pre-registration required

8:00am-3:00pm Room 104 – Executive Committee Meeting



8:00pm -10:00pm Room 102 – CPR Refresher/Renewal – Dana Brown – Pre-registration required

8:00pm -10:00pm WC-203 – Ranger Basics – Rick Dostal and team – Pre-registration Required (continues on Saturday)



Saturday

8:30am-4:00pm: Fireside Room/Kitchen – Ladies Activities – Brenda Millhouser



10:20am - 5pm Room 102 – Adult Leaders Training Track – First Aid/CPR – Dana Brown – Pre-registration required

WC-203 – Ranger Basics (continued) – Rick Dostal and team – Pre-registration Required



10:20-11:00am Gym – Conducting a Archery Postal Event – JR Whinery

WC-202 – Powwow Pageant Planning Meeting – Blayne Riffle/Bob Sederwall

WC-204 – Spiritual Emphasis Track - Leading a Boy to Christ – Ted King

Room 103 – FCF Track – Buckskin Advancement Prep – Fred Lipowicz, Dustin Hines

Room 207 – The Art of Storytelling – Jim “Two Crows” Wallen

Room 208 – Outdoors Skills Track – Building a Survival Kit – Paul Ehrich



11:05-11:45am: Gym – Competitive Archery Shoot – JR Whinery (as many sessions until 3pm as we need)

WC-204 – Spiritual Emphasis Track - Leading a Boy in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit – Ted King

Room 103 – FCF Track – Trapping and Snares – Dustin Hines/Mark Jones

Room 207 – Ranger Kids – Sports Activity Ideas – Kelly Michael

Gym / Parking Lot – Outdoors Skills Track – Dutch Oven Cooking – Don Higinbotham/Steve Copeland



1:00-1:40pm: WC-201 – National Track – Curriculum and Program Updates – John Hicks, National Staff

WC-202 – Adult Leaders Training Track – Outpost Leaders & Organizational Advancements – Rick Barnhouse

WC-204 – Spiritual Emphasis Track – Royal Rangers in Missions - David Jenkins

Room 207 – Ranger Kids Track – Teaching Ideas for Activities Patches – Kelly Michael

Room 208 – Outdoors Skills Track – Building a Survival Kit – Paul Ehrich



1:00-3:55pm: Gym – FCF Track – Leather Crafting – Frank Reed

Gym – FCF Track – Scrimshaw – Debbie Wallen

Gym – FCF Track – Knife Making – Eddie Kirsch

WC-202 – Adult Leaders Training Track – Ranger Safety Continuous Learning Elective – Ray Reece



1:45-2:25pm: WC-201 – National Track – Junior Training and Action Camp Update – Steve Schultz, National Staff

Room 207 – Ranger Kids Track – Ranger Kids Day Outing Ideas – Kelly Michael

Room 208 – Outdoors Skills Track – Documenting Your Events – Mark Jones



1:45-3:45pm: Room 103 – Adult Leaders Training Track – Rangers Orientation CLE– Norm Kirsch



2:30-3:10pm: WC-204 – Spiritual Emphasis Track – Overseeing a Boy’s Capstone Project – John Hicks

Room 207 – Ranger Kids Track – Ranger Kids Crafts – Ryan Reed

Room 208 – Outdoors Skills Track – Geocaching – Don Bixler/Rick Barnhouse (2 sessions)

2:30-3:55pm: Room 104 – CPR Refresher/Renewal – Dana Brown – Pre-registration required



3:15-3:55pm: Room 201 – Adult Leaders Training Track – Using Ranger Navigator – Ryan Reed

Adult Leaders Training Track

CPR Refresher – CPR certification has to renewed annually. This class is for those who have a current certification, but need to renew this year. Offered twice.

First Aid/CPR – Required for your Outpost Leaders Training track. Good for anyone in the church. Adventure/Expedition Rangers can attend to meet their merit requirements. We are limited in class size due to Red Cross guidelines, so please pre-register for this class. First come, first serve. You may check on the day of the class to see if there are any additional spots open. Offered twice.

Outpost Leaders Advancement Levels - Your District Training Coordinator will go over the new adult training requirements and help you plan your training path in the new Rangers Ministry Academy.

Ranger Basics is a one-day hands-on experience that teaches how to run successful outpost meetings, how to use the Rangers curriculum and advancement system, and how to build healthy relationships with boys and young men. You also learn soul-winning techniques for evangelism. Offered twice.

Ranger Essentials is a one-day fun, interactive-style training event. You will learn how to connect with today’s boys, along with recognizing ministry needs and outreach opportunities. You will discover how to give life-changing devotions and how to mentor boys and young men into spiritual leaders.

Rangers Orientation – A Continuous Learning Electric designed for pastors and those new to or interested in Royal Rangers. This class fulfills the training for the pastor’s level of the Ranger Ministry Academy.

Ranger Safety – This newly revised in-class version of the online course will help commanders (and anyone else involved in ministry) the important safety issues when dealing with boys in outpost meetings, activities, and while transporting boys. Ranger Safety is required for the Safety Level of the Outpost Leaders Advancement Levels.

FCF Track

Buckskin Advancement Preparation – Our Chapter President, Fred Lipowicz, will be helping you prepare for your advancement to Buckskin – everything from skills practice to name selection.

Trapping and Snares – Here is a fun (and perhaps life-saving) skill to beef up your frontiersman savvy.

Leather Crafting – Frank Reed will have several projects on hand and guide you in skills to make handsome and professionally crafted leather items for your FCF outfit.

Scrimshaw – This class/demonstration will be ongoing in the gym. Come by and learn some artistic techniques to really jazz up and add value to that FCF outfit.

Knife Making – Eddie Kirsch will be running a booth in the gym to display and help you get started on making your own knives.

National Update Track

Curriculum and Program Updates – Come hear about the latest program updates in Royal Rangers, including changes to the Discovery, Adventure and Expedition Rangers advancement systems. Bring your NEW boys’ Handbook as a quick reference (optional and available onsite).

Junior Training and Action Camp Updates – New directives were issued at LEAD. Come find out how they affect your boys. Did you know that YOU can now participate with your boys at action camps?




Outdoors Skills Track

Documenting your events – Mark Jones will be teaching on easy and fun ways to record your events and to store those memories on the web.

Dutch Oven Cooking – This class is always a favorite. Join our chef, Steve Copeland, and learn how to cook up some amazing grub for your boys (or even your spouse).

Geocaching – Bring your smart phone and let’s go find some “treasure.”

Survival Kits – Paul Ehrich will show you how to make survival kits of all sizes. I got mine last year and it is awesome! I’ve used it everywhere I’ve gone. These kits are packed full of goodies.

Ranger Kids Track

Outing Ideas – Ranger Kids need to get out and about too!

Teaching Ideas for Activity Patches – Learn some fun, interactive ways to teach the activity patches for your Ranger Kids.

Ranger Kids Crafts – A whole bunch of practical ideas for crafts for our youngest group

Sports Activities Ideas – Ranger Kids play differently than big boys. Way fun!

Spiritual Emphasis Track

Leading a Boy to Christ – Ted King has had great success in leading boys to Christ. Come learn some techniques that might help you in this, our most important work.

Leading a Boy in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit – this course will help you help your boys understand the importance of the Baptism and how they can prepare themselves to receive.

Overseeing a Boy’s Capstone Project – The GMA requirements changed effective 12/31/2012. Come learn the new requirement and how to prepare your young men.

Royal Rangers in Missions – Missionary Associate from Royal Rangers International, David Jenkins, will be sharing ways that you and your boys can be involved on the mission field.

Miscellaneous Cool Classes

Ladies Activities – The women always have a great time in their session. They fellowship, have a great morning speaker, and make lots of new crafts to bring home. Sometimes they even plot funny shows for the Saturday night banquet.

Powwow Pageant Planning Meeting – If you are interested in help with the Powwow Pageant, either in set design, setup, teardown, or in acting, please attend this planning meeting. Assignments will be made.

The Art of Story-Telling – Master storyteller, Two Crows Wallen will be helping us develop skills to tell stories to capture our boys’ attention and to bring home a truth to their hearts.

Using Navigator for Record Keeping – In this class you can receive files that will help you maintain boys and adult leaders advancement records in an easy-to-use Excel format. No other special programs are required.

Archery – Will have several archery events featured this year. First off, JR Whinery will show you just how to run a competitive archery shoot. The try your hand to be the best archer in So. Missouri at regulation postal shoot. Thirdly, we will have BRAND NEW THIS YEAR, an archery target thrower! That’s right. Flying and rolling archery targets. It is a whole new realm of fun. This event will be at Powwow this year too for your boys. Come try it out.

So that's a packed schedule. Our state leaders conference is this weekend too. I think it's scheduled for a couple hours on Saturday, but they had a note saying they were letting out at the designated time so that those going to the Darlington NASCAR race could get there in time.

We got next to nothing out here. My wife has lots of family in Missouri. If we could stand the humidity, the positives could lure us there.

We used to have a banquet as well on Sat night but it was a lot of extra work so we nixed that.

It's still a lot of fun. Fred Deaver used to make our conferences. Last year or so health reasons has kept him home.

When Richard Marriott first took over as National Commander in 2000 our Commanders Conferences were huge. With the changes these past 14 years we might have a hundred there. I am hoping for 500 there. "It could happen"
Mark Jones

Mark Jones wrote: 7:00pm – Fellowship & Rally Time

That is something I sorely miss.
Our twice a year Commanders conferences were always great. They always had a time for Worship, a teaching by the host Pastor, fellowship & group discussion. I loved to meet other Commanders & share ideas. But with a new District Commander in 2009, the much loved conference became all about training.
By late 2011 we stopped having Commanders conferences, because so few people were coming.  

It's got to be fun and it's got to count for something.
We have fun and I look forward to this event.

It wished it was like the good ole days where everyone was sitting around talking about what they were doing with their group. With no focus going on it's not near as good.

Being the premier mentoring program for boys has gotten so fuzzy it's all blurry...so much so they don't even know what to teach anymore. Were still having success teaching RTK. The rest of it falls off like dead skin. The old program was the life and blood of Royal Rangers. Always pointing to Jesus life and Blood yet doing it in a focused concise way and repeating it over and over again because that is the only way they/we learn anthing. Once and done is a waste of time as the end results is only "I have a vague memory of that" When we quit repeating something we loose it.

Mark Jones

Totally agree Mark.