I hope you are all well. This coming week in cub scouts we have our Den Meetings, God & Family Class and our Popcorn Raffles.

God & Family Classes: For those signed up for the God & Family Class, we will meet 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm on Tuesday, 10/20, at Mt Tabor UMC in the 3rd floor library. Please enter through the church office and remind your scout to bring his God & Family Book and Bible, (if he has one). Please have your scout wear his class A uniform.

Den Meetings: Den Meetings will be from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm on 10/20 as well. Please have your scout wear his class A uniform. Our dens have grown and we have moved our meetings around to accommodate our larger sizes and particular activities, please see the location list below for clarification on meeting locations for this week.

Tiger Den – Youth Commons – making birdhouses

Wolf Den  – Fellowship Hall

Bear Den – Room 306

Webelo I – Boy Scout Room

Webelo II – Room 304/305

I know many of you are new to our pack and may not know your way to the youth commons or the fellowship hall, please come through the church office entrance and we will work with you to help you find your way.

Dear All,

We had our first God & Family Class last Tuesday Night. It was great fun for all of us. Our class was led by the always entertaining Pastor Andy Lambert from the Mt Tabor UMC Clergy. We will meet again next week, 10/20/15, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm at Mt Tabor UMC in the 3rd floor library. Please enter through the church office and follow the signs. We will take the boys on to their den meetings after the God & Family Class. Please remind your scout to bring his God & Family book and his bible, if he has one.

You may remember from my earlier message that this series uses the parts of a pizza to explain God’s plan for strengthening families. We talked about the “Crust” (foundation) of our Pizza (family) last night.

This week’s homework is one of the following three options:

(1) Have your scout explain the mezuzah (door hanger) to your family. Talk about what is important in your family’s Christian beliefs.

(2) If your family doesn’t currently say a blessing before meals, this is a great time to begin. A blessing or grace shows the importance of our belief in God and Jesus Christ. If you don’t know a table grace, try this one: God, we thank you for this food. We thank you for Jesus Christ. We thank you for loving us. And we thank you for our families. Amen

(3) Do something fun together with your family this week. Play a board game, take a walk, take a hike together or something else fun.

Next week, Mt Tabor’s Children’s Minister, Susan Ewing, will be working with us as we get into the “sauce” of our pizza.

The scripture we will use is:

Ruth & Naomi – Ruth 1:1-18, 4:13-17

Baby Jesus is taken to the temple – Luke 2:21-24, 40

I will stand in again for Stacy Stevens with help from Carmen Bridges (thank you, Carmen).

See you next week.

Shannon

Dear All,

I hope everyone is well. We had a great parent & son camping trip this past weekend.

This coming Tuesday, 10/13/15, is a leaders’ meeting. There are no den meetings; however, the first God & Family classes begin at 6:00 pm in library located in the cub scout rooms on the third floor. Please enter through the church office as already mentioned in the email the God & Family participating families received. Just a reminder that the attire for the God & Family Classes is your scout’s class A uniform.

Take care-

Shannon

Hello All,

This coming Tuesday, 10/13/15, Scout God & Family Classes begin! We meet at 6:00 pm in the Library which is located upstairs in our temporary scout meeting location. Please enter the church through the office door. The boys need to wear their class A uniform. I know 6:00 pm can be hard to make but please try to be on time.

We have twelve scouts signed up to participate. We will be splitting into two groups to work through the class materials. One group with work with a member of the Mt Tabor UMC Clergy while the other group will work with one of our Pack Leaders. Then we will rotate the boys.

Each boy will be given a workbook. Please bring this to every class.

This week, our bible verses will be:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Matthew 28:1-10

John 3:16

We will be talking about building a strong foundation for our lives focusing on faith and family. The course uses the components of a pizza to symbolize the parts of our lives so our part this week is the crust!

I will be standing in for Stacy Stevens, our pack coordinator, this Tuesday, see you then.

Take care-

Shannon

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are well.  Here are the links to the Parent/Son Camporee Information and the Camp Raven Knob Map. Our campsite assignment is Buffalo Bill A & B.

Take care-

Shannon

Hello Everyone!

I hope the popcorn sales season is going well. Please be advised our popcorn sales reporting process has changed this year. Instead of reporting in your popcorn sales each Sunday as we have in years past, just bring in your popcorn forms to each meeting and our popcorn team will tally everything up and enter the boys in the prize drawings based on their sales.

This coming Tuesday, 10/6/15, will have cub scout den meetings. We will be meeting in the same rooms as this past Tuesday.

These are listed below:

At the end of the meetings, we will hold the Popcorn Round Up which is when we check the boys’ sales progress and have our prize drawings in the Youth Commons room 113 in the old scout area.

Hopefully, those signed up for the Big Sweep all received my earlier message that it has been postponed until 10/10/15 due to weather. Most of us that were signed up for that event are also signed up to attend the Parent/Son Camporee on 10/10/15 so we will not be able to participate in the Big Sweep this year. If you still want to participate in the Big Sweep and will be available on 10/10, please let me know.

If you are new and this is confusing, please contact me and I will help you.

Take care-

Shannon

Dear All,

I wanted to let you know that I received a message today that the Big Sweep originally planned for this Saturday, 10/3 is now postponed until the next Saturday, 10/10.

Unfortunately, 10/10 is the Saturday of the Cub Scout Parent/Son Camporee. I know that like me, many of you are signed up for both the Big Sweep and the Parent/Son Camporee. The official pack activity for the weekend of 10/9 – 10/11 will be the Parent/Son Camporee. However, if you are not planning to participate in the Parent/Son Camporee and would like to go to the Big Sweep, please let me know.

Take care-

Shannon

Dear All,

I hope you are all well. Thank you for signing up to support our community by cleaning it up!

Currently, our pack has 38 people coming to the Big Sweep next Saturday, 10/3/15. I received our assignment last night. We have been assigned to Washington Park. We are to meet in a parking lot off of Broad street (please see my note below). We will be joined by local families, the Washington Park neighborhood association and a group of students from the School of the Arts.

I sent back a message asking for clarification on the meeting location and some other details. As soon as I have the answers to my questions, I will send them out to you. One of my questions was about attire for this event. As of right now, we will be in class B (cub scout t-shirts) with other details to follow from the KWSB (Keep Winston Salem Beautiful) team. Additionally, right now the weather looks good for next Saturday, mostly sunny with a high of 65 degrees. However, things can change so we will monitor it and leave messages as appropriate.

The KWSB  team is planning to have donuts in the morning and at the conclusion of the clean up there will be Cici’s pizza and water. The pack will be bringing hand sanitizer, paper towels and first aid kits as well as other supplies.

The KWSB team is providing gloves and trash bags.

I know Saturday mornings are hard for all of us but let’s meet at 8:45 am. We have some safety information to go over with the boys before we begin. Based on the information that came from KWSB, there will be at least 78 people in Washington Park volunteering that morning so the earlier you can get there the better for parking.

Click here for a waiver to be signed and returned to me at the den meetings on Tuesday (9/29). If you are not able to attend the den meetings, let me know and we will make other arrangements for the wavier. I will have some paper waivers at the sign up table on Tuesday as well.

I will post this information on the website and will add the details to the Big Sweep Webpage on our site.

Take care-

Shannon

Wow! What a Popcorn Kickoff at the Pack Meeting on Tuesday! Please remember that door-to-door Popcorn sales begin tomorrow, Friday, 9/25/15. This is blitz weekend! So have your scout put on his Class A uniform and sell some popcorn!

If you were not able to come to the pack meeting this week, please visit with Amanda at the sign up table beginning at 6:45 pm on Tuesday, 9/29, or you can email me with questions and to set a goal on how much popcorn you think you will sell this season. Setting your goal will earn your scout a camouflage wallet to put all his popcorn prize gift cards in. The boys are crazy about these wallets. Your scout must set his sales goal by October 6th for your scout to receive his wallet.

Just a reminder that each boy needs to bring his popcorn order form with him to each den meeting during popcorn season to be placed into the drawing to win prizes. The more each scout sells the more tickets he gets to put into the drawing.  Please click here for Popcorn Prizes handout and Popcorn Sales plan handout to see the popcorn handouts from last Tuesday’s meeting.

Our pack is fortunate to keep growing and growing. The Old Hickory Council is spreading the word about Cub Scouting. We had lots of surprise scouts come on last Tuesday. Welcome to them!  When you jump in membership up 35-40 families, you have some growing pains.  If you are new and need some help sorting all of this information out, please contact me.

This Tuesday, 9/29/15, we will have our den meetings in our den rooms. I realize we have even more new scouts so I will be putting up signs to help everyone find our meeting rooms. Please enter again through the church office. If you need to use an elevator we have one, please email, call or text me for directions before next Tuesday.

We usually wear our class A uniforms to den meetings but if you are new and have not had a chance to get to the scout store or need some help figuring it all out. We understand, please contact me for assistance.

Our council moved our deadline out by a few days on the Parent/Son Camporee. This is your last chance to sign up. If you are interested, please email, call or text me by Monday, 9/28th.

For our new scouts, I usually post a copy of these messages on the main page of the website as well.

Take care-

Shannon Settlemire

336-692-4519 – cell

Dear All,

We are looking forward to the Transportation Museum trip tomorrow. When you arrive, please meet us at the Barber Visitor Center in the grassy area to check in with me.

Check in is at 1:45 pm for the pack train ride.

I will be establishing a text group for this trip so we can let each other know status, road conditions and I like to keep everyone connected on trips.

Take care-

Shannon

336-692-4519 – cell