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All Faith Celebration Service

Sunday, February 10, 2008

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

First Baptist Institutional Church

17101 W. 7 Mile Road

Detroit, Michigan

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A Unitarian program has been approved by BSA Religious Relationships. For more information, contact the Unitarian Universalist Scouting Organization, 847 Washington Street, Holliston, MA 01746 or call 508-429-7700. The Catholic religious emblems booklets are now available from P.R.A.Y. at www.praypub.org or call 1-800-933-7729.If you have experienced problems getting the Jewish requirements on line, there is an alternative web site: www.scouting.org. Click on “site map” and then “relationships.”Revised God and Life Curriculum Now Available from P.R.A.Y. – God and Life (for high school students) has been revised and is now available from P.R.A.Y. This is the fourth and final program to be revised in the God and Country Protestant series. Click here for more information on the new God and Life program: http://www.praypub.org/god_country/life/god_life1.htm Display Awards – One of the easiest ways to promote religious recognitions is to simply display the emblems in a prominent area at the council office or store or at special council-wide events. P.R.A.Y. makes its religious awards available at a special discounted rate for Boy Scout Councils. Please contact joanw@praypub.org  to request a Display Medal Order Form.God and Country Email Bulletin – P.R.A.Y. now offers a God and Country Bulletin featuring the Protestant religious award program. The first issue was sent via email in September 2004 and contained information on the curriculum revisions, new application process, Spanish translations, and new PowerPoint presentation. To view this bulletin, click here: New God and Country bulletin. To sign up to receive this bulletin, please email Jennifer at jenniferh@praypub.org  with your first and last name, email address and a note that you would like to sign up for the God and Country Email Bulletin.

Soon to be in Spanish: God and Me, God and Family Needed: Volunteers to Field Test Spanish Program – P.R.A.Y. has translated the God and Me and God and Family programs into Spanish and will be printing a limited number of books to be field-tested. We are looking for volunteers from different parts of the country to field-test these programs in Spanish teaching either an individual or a class. Volunteers would agree to provide feedback and complete an evaluation of the program for P.R.A.Y. If interested, please contact Deb Hazlewood at debh@praypub.org  or call 1-800-933-7729.

 For the past 12 years, the Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting (EOCS) has offered a $1,000 scholarship and a $500 scholarship to eligible Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.

Starting in 2005, the Russian Children's Welfare Society Inc. has funded an additional $1,000 scholarship for a Scout of Russian descent who meets the eligibility requirements.

Applications for the three scholarships are available from the EOCS Chairman, George N. Boulukos, 862 Guy Lombardo Ave., Freeport, NY 11520, and must be submitted by May 1. Winners will be announced in June.

• Pray announced a new video Promoting Duty to God (Religious Emblems). It is for Scouters and will be distributed by BSA to promote religious emblems. It is an interfaith video which can be used in presentations to units (Cubs, Boy Scouts, Venturers) at roundtables or at training events like Cub Scout College or University of Scouting events.

• We wanted to bring to your attention to a new piece from PRAY entitled " Increasing Membership Through Religious Emblems."  This article discusses how being familiar with the religious emblems program can help you call on faith groups. > Resources

• The United Pentecostal Church and the Boy Scouts of America have signed a memorandum of support. The goal of this agreement is to increase the number of Pentecostal youth in Boy Scouts from 1500 to 5000 and the number of units in Pentecostal churches from 150 to 500 by the year 2005. To that end the Sunday School Division devoted the fall issue of their magazine "The Christian Educator" to explaining how this relationship can and should work. Also to celebrate the new relationship the Pentecostal Church has created new medal for the God and Church level of the God and Country Series as well creating a new Pentecostal medal for their God and Service adult recipients. For additional information on the new medals -- Religious Emblems Program > View the Emblem (PRAY).

  To identify Pentecostal Churches in your council or district you can go to the United Pentecostal website www.upci.org and use their church locator. You can put the town and it will give information on the churches in your area including Church name, location, Pastor's name, and phone number.

• The Presbyterian Church in America has created a new medal at the God and Church Level of the God and Country Program for their Adult God and Service recipients. Additional information on these new medals is available at View the Emblem.