"My hope were already high for this camporee because of last year’s Texas camporee plus the TLT convention, and my oh my did it live up to my expectations. Though it was small it was so much fun. We got to see many old friends and got to meet many new people. An unexpected responsibility of doing the flag rising and lowering was brought up and our very own TLTs stepped up. Though we were all very very nervous we did pretty well for the last minute notice and represented the club well. Overall it was a great camporee! The weather was amazing and spirits were high!"
The SAIL Pathfinders joined six other clubs from the area for the Central Texas-North Camporee in Driftwood over the Easter weekend. The theme was "All In," and the focus was on honing camping skills. There was ample time for the SAILs to meet with Pathfinders from around the area, and everyone had the opportunity to learn about and interact with the herds of goats and sheep. Here are the words of one of our Pathfinders in recalling the Camporee: "My hope were already high for this camporee because of last year’s Texas camporee plus the TLT convention, and my oh my did it live up to my expectations. Though it was small it was so much fun. We got to see many old friends and got to meet many new people. An unexpected responsibility of doing the flag rising and lowering was brought up and our very own TLTs stepped up. Though we were all very very nervous we did pretty well for the last minute notice and represented the club well. Overall it was a great camporee! The weather was amazing and spirits were high!" As usual for the SAILs, the Pathfinders themselves led out in setting up and tearing down camp, in making the meals and cleaning up, getting water and taking care of garbage, and yet there was still plenty of time for activities, meeting others, joining the programs, and practicing key outdoors skills. The SAILs worked on camping skills, including fire starting and knife, hatchet, and ax work, learned about sheep and goat husbandry, studies rocks and minerals, had time for a nature hike, and joined several spiritual programs that provided an uplifting message of hope and confidence. After a rewarding weekend, we are looking forward to our upcoming SAIL club backpacking and camping trip, where we will put some of these skills to the test. And we eagerly look forward to the International Camporee in August!
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The SAIL Pathfinders marked Global Youth Day 2024 through a special service and through a service/fundraiser project, though our outreach activity was postponed due to weather. This year the SAILs led a special church service, including a skit by the Junior Unit about the trial of Samson (performed as a children's story), and a special four-part sermon by the TLTs, who presented different stories and sermonettes on the theme of deep waters, highlighting four ideas: overcoming fear, proper preparation, working together, and perseverance - both in our daily life, and in our spiritual life. Below is the video of the full service. You can see the skit at 29:11-37:33, and the sermonettes at 1:03:15-1:42:49 . Although we had to postpone our afternoon outreach due to the weather, the SAILS the next day got up bright and early and headed out to a ranch to help clear a new camping ground ahead of the April 8 eclipse. There was plenty of heavy labor, moving rocks to make a comfortable and safe space for campers. While they didn't see many snakes, there was a brief encounter with a scorpion. Some SAILs moved large rocks, others smaller ones, but all put in several hours of committed labor, ending only as the storm clouds rolled in to unleash another downpour.
The SAILs have a long history of service in the community, and in fact our first activity 15 years ago was taking part in the Lake Travis Underwater Clean Up. Over the years we have helped with the lake clean up many times, helped in response to the Bastrop fires and the Onion Creek Floods, collected food for local food pantries, helped prepare packages for prison ministries, made up disaster response kits, cleaned trails, planted trees, and joined marches downtown raising awareness to anti-drug messages. We look forward to further engagement in our community and beyond! |
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