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Victoria and Dennis Kampa were awarded the Bronze Pelican Award from the Pueblo Diocese during a recent Rocky Mountain Council Recognition Dinner in Pueblo. Both are long-time Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Girl Scout leaders in a California Diocese and the Pueblo Diocese.

Dennis has been involved with Cub Scouts many years and has taught Cub Scout leader courses at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. In California, he served and an adult leader of a Cub Scout pack and a Boy Scout troop chartered by St. Phillip the Apostle Catholic Church, Bakersfield, California. In Pueblo, he has served on the Executive Committee of the Rocky Mountain Council and on the diocesan committee on Boy Scouts. He also has helped his wife, Vickie, with her Sunday school classes in California and Pueblo.

Vickie (Victoria) has been an adult leader for Girl Scouts in California and the Pueblo area. She has taught Sunday School Classes at St. Therese Catholic School and at St. Pius X in Pueblo. She is the recently appointed Chair of the Catholic Committee on Girl Scouts for the Pueblo Diocese.

Vickie and Dennis have two grown children and attend St. Pius X Catholic Church. They were recognized for their service to their church, Catholic youth of the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA.

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A new, four-patch, puzzle-patch for Scouts and adults has been released by Programs of Religious Activities for Youth (PRAY) for Scouts and adults of all religions. Each segment is available in each of the next four years so that after four years, the Scout or adult may complete the large diamond-shape puzzle-patch for the complete picture of the Duty to God Patch.

To earn a patch each year, a Scout or adult must: 1) attend or coordinate a presentation or information seminar on religious emblems; and 2) Make a commitment to fulfill their “Duty to God” “Duty to God” is at the heart of the Scouting movement. Religious emblems reinforce this spiritual component and promote many of the values found in the Scouting program. The purpose of this “Duty to God Promotion Patch" is to encourage youth and adults to learn about and promote the religious emblems programs of their faith.

So how do you do “your duty to God?” Adults can commit to having 50 percent of families participate in the religious emblems programs, commit to nominating a worthy adult to be recognized with an adult religious award, serving as counselor in their local congregation, and other ways they choose. Youth can commit to earning the religious emblem of their faith at an appropriate time, making a presentation on religious emblems to another unit, helping younger Scouts earn their religious emblem, helping to establish a religious emblems program in their local congregation, and other ways.

The Duty to God Promotion Patch is a four-segment puzzle patch with 8 to 10 colors per segment and is 100% embroidered. Only one segment will be offered in any given year. For this year, the "Scout" segment will be available. Participants are encouraged to earn all four segments over a four year span. Patches may be pre-ordered for distribution at the presentation / information seminar. In the attached picture the “Scout” segment is the right-side segment.

PRAY has several helps for this promotion. You can contact them at www.praypub.org or call them at 1-800-933-7729. They have posters, a DVD video promoting this campaign, brochures, scripts for presentation to Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers, and a parent hand-out. The DVD is available for $5 each and it contains all the information you will need to put on one of these presentations. This information is also available free form the praypub.org web site, including slide shows or Powerpoint shows, with scripts for what ever age group you may be talking to. There are also scripts for Roundtable presentations and University of Scouting or Pow Wow classes. If you do not have internet access, ask your pastor for help to get to praypub.org.

The patch segments cost $3 each with discounts after 16 patches or more. There seems to be no shipping and handling charges for the DVD or the patches. One segment will be available for the next four years.

In this council, I challenge you adults to earn this patch yourself, and encourage your scouts to so, too. In the past few years fewer and fewer Rocky Mountain Council youth have earned the religious emblem of their faith, so few in fact, that we have not had a Religious Emblems Recognition Dinner for many years. What happened to a scout’s “Duty to God?”

For further information contact the Rocky Mountain Council scout office, 719-561-1220, or Rik Bergethon, Vice President for Relationships, at 719-544-1255, evenings.