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Benefits of Venturing

Hopefully, the aims and methods of Venturing provide plenty of reasons to motivate bishops to want to see Venturing taking place in their priests quorums. But what about the priests? Aren't they tired of Scouting? Aren't they sick of jumping the hoops of advancement? In addition to selling the idea of Venturing to the leaders, we need to be able to sell the idea to the young men as well. My experience has been that this isn't as hard as it might seem. (It's the doing that's hard, the following through.) What I think helps this out is that Venturing is not just another level of Boy Scouting. It's an entirely different program.

I have tried to identify what I see as the key benefits of Venturing. Some of the ideas should also take place at the earlier levels of Scouting. In fact, I think that much of the resistance of the young men to Scouting is that their Scouting experiences have not focused on the aims and methods as they ought. But other ideas are radically extended in the Venturing program.



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David Brian Walton 2002-02-18
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