A Family-Based Scouting Program
Our Cub Scouting program is a family-based program designed for boys who are in kindergarten through fifth grade or 5 through 10 years of age. We focus on aiding young boys in their character development, spiritual growth, good citizenship, sportsmanship and fitness, family understanding, respectful relationships, friendly service, fun and adventure, and personal a
chievements. Through our program, we try to strengthen the family, encourage physical fitness, and teach each scout the twelve core values to live by. The Cub Scouting program is where it all begins, offering a thrilling outdoor program with day camps, resident camps, council-organized camps, pack camping, and the fabulous make-believe themes of Cub World venues such as castles, frontier forts, pirate ships, and more. Apart from the fun and excitement of Cub Scout activities, the Scout Promise, the Scout Law, Cub Scout Motto, and the Cub Scout sign, salute, handshake, and handshake, all teach good citizenship and contribute to a boy's sense of belonging. Our program also aids in the preparation for membership into the Boy Scouts. Did you know that ninety-five percent of all Boy Scouts participated in Cub Scouting at some time. Cub Scout Pack 141 was first chartered on May 1, 1973 for a highly active and spirited group of young boys who wanted to experience the joys of scouting. Since 1930, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has helped younger boys through a program known as Cub Scouting. Scouting aims to contribute to the development of your son in achieving his full physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual potentials as an individual, as responsible a citizen, and as a member of his local, national, and international communities. Scouting provides your son with an opportunity to try new things, provide service to others, build self-confidence, and reinforce ethical standards. Scouting will not only help when he is young but he will carry scouting with him in his adult life, improving relationships in his family and work life setting the standards, ethics, and values by which he lives. Scouting will help guide your son to be the example and become the leader instead of the being involved in poor life decisions. The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the 12 Cub Scouting Core Values: Citizenship, Compassion, Cooperation, Courage, Faith, Health and fitness, Honesty, Perseverance, Positive attitude, Resourcefulness, Respect, and Responsibility. Character development in Cub Scouting is about encouraging our Cubs to foster these values and we “Do Our Best” to incorporate the twelve core values in all aspects of our Cub Scouting program. These values are all encompassed in the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. The Cub Scouting Advancement Program, which features Rank Advancements based on a series of Core or Required and Elective or Optional Adventures that gives the Scouts a sense of personal achievement as they earn badges, provides fun for the boys, and strengthens family bonds as adult family members work with their sons on advancement projects. Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys doing different adventures to achieve the aims of Scouting, which includes citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness. Cub Scout Pack 141 is a member in the New River District of the Blue Ridge Mountains Council (BRMC), the local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America. Our Pack is sponsored by the Christiansburg Presbyterian Church located on Main Street in downtown Christiansburg, VA. Even though you do not have to be a member of the church to join the Pack, know that the Church does provide us with leadership, guidance, and a facility to hold our meetings and special events. The Church also sponsors Christiansburg’s Frontier Girls Troop 377 and Boy Scout Troop 141. Our scouting programs will not participate in the official Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Family Scouting program because the Church already has an alternative scout like program for girls that is a part of their Family Scouting program. Frontier Girls Troop 377 was launched in January 2016 as an alternative scouting-type program for the highly active and spirited young girls who wanted to experience a program that mirrored one that many of their brothers, who had joined the BSA program experienced. Because the “Frontier Girls” program itself permits a seamless integration with the local BSA programs, the program is the perfect complement to the existing BSA scouting programs already sponsored by the Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, but one that would cater specifically to the young girls in the community. The benefit of any program can be measured by those who rise to its top. And for Scouting, the top is the rank of Eagle Scout, an accomplishment that caps years of work, progressive leadership responsibilities, civic awareness, community volunteerism, dozen of merit badges based on learning specialized skills and in most cases, countless nights spent camping in forests and wilderness. It is a long and difficult road, but if a boy sticks with it and accomplishes his goal, the reward is great and is a rank that is awarded for life. If it is important for your son to learn new physical skills, to learn to get along with boys of his same age, to develop his mental process, to develop a conscience, and to develop personal independence, then Cub Scouting is the way to go. As you learn more about the joys of scouting, your son will experience growth working on these important developmental task by joining a Den. If you are interested in learning more about the Boy Scouts of America in the Blue Ridge Mountains Council, getting information about the Scouting program, and/or to find out why Scouting is for families like yours, go to the BRMC website at www.bsa-brmc.org. For information about Cub Scout Pack 141 and our program, please visit our website or send us a message. We will get back with you. Thanks for visiting our page. Yours In Scouting,
CS Pack 141
