St jude campout schedule

Dear AHG families, The St. Jude Family Campout is coming up. It’s a wonderful opportunity to join St. Jude’s Cub Scout Pack and Boy Scout Troop in a great camping adventure. These groups have invited us to participate in several outdoor activities. Please take time to look at the schedule to see what will be available. No obligation, though, if you and your family just want to come out and have a relaxing campout with your fellow AHG peers, please feel free to do just that. However, if you’d like to take advantage of some of the activities, be sure to look at your book beforehand to review the requirements you might be able to fulfill. Remember, the BSA and cub scout groups may not have the same requirements, but if you ask the right questions, you might still get all you need! Dates: Friday, March 28 – Sunday March 30. If you can’t make the overnight portions of the event, we encourage you to come out and join us on Saturday for the activities, mass service, and/or campfire described below. Location: Myers Park - 7117 County Road 166, McKinney, TX 75071 (maps are attached to this email) Cost: $0 – troop funded. Supplies: Please bring an empty can with both the top and the bottom removed if you plan to participate in the cub scout astronomy activity (**tenderhearts). There will also be an opportunity to give a $2-3 donation to help defray the cost of a separate craft activity. There will be a "tip" jar during that event. St Jude Rules: If you are camping overnight and you, your daughter, or anyone in your family plan on leaving the campsite at anytime during the weekend and return later, we have to have a written notice to provide to St Jude with the details. This is mandated per the Dallas Diocese. Bathrooms: Recently constructed bathrooms will be available throughout the grounds. Gear: Families are responsible for bringing their own tents, sleeping bags, cooking equipment (e.g., camp stove) and other gear. See list below for suggest items. Troop 131 has some gear available to loan. If you need something, please let us know ASAP and we will coordinate with the boy scouts to see what we can do to help. Campfires: There are campfire rings in each camping area. Campfires will be allowed in these areas on Saturday evening for dinner and dessert. The stipulation is that there has to be a point of contact assigned to each fire. The POC has to stay and oversee the fire until the fire is extinguished. Each family must bring their own firewood. Firewood cannot be collected for the campsite. There will be NO campfires allowed in the morning or day time. Please bring a camp stove of you need to make anything over a fire. Meals: Families should bring their own supplies for all meals with the exception of Saturday lunch. The troop will provide ham and turkey and cheese sandwiches. Other meals to be prepared for include Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast and dinner, and Sunday breakfast. Saturday Dinner: Pi/Pas and Explorers should RSVP their meal plans for Saturday evening. If an explorer plans to prepare a meal for her family she needs to be sure she has met the fire safety & building badge, as well as the outdoor camping badge. If she has not, she can plan on completing those requirements on Saturday afternoon. Please RSVP if your daughter will be participating in completing these requirements. Tenderheart families are invited to join in a dinner campfire! Bring your favorite hotdogs and trimmings and we’ll sit around the campfire roasting our dinner. A campfire will be provided, families should bring everything they need to roast their dinner. Be sure to help out your tenderheart and remind them of good fire safety rules. We will also have a propane stove and pot for boiling our hotdogs if we are not able to have a campfire. Hydrate!!!: Please bring more than enough water for the weekend. If you do not want to carry in a heavy cooler of water, there is a water source at the edge of the parking area.

Camporee Schedule & Activities Friday, March 28  6:00 Arrive at Myers Park  No planned activities. Pitch your tent and organize your supplies. Saturday, March 29 Below is the list of scout activities our families have been invited to attend. Feel free to get together with your fellow AHG members and/or leaders to create your own plans. I have marked the ones that looked most appropriate for each level. Parents, please plan on accompanying your daughter at her activities. It will be a great time for all!

7:009:30 9:3012:00

12:001:30 1:304:00

4:005:00 6:008:00 8:00

Camp Schedule Breakfast

Cub Scout/Boy Scout Activities

Activities

Ax/Knife Poison Ivy Fire Safety Map & Compass Crafts Astronomy Kickball

Tender hearts

Explorers

X (p. 245) X (p. 244) X (p. 224)

Pi/Pa

X (p. 245) X (p. 224,225)

X X (p. 329)

Lunch Activities

Lashing First Aid Navigation Hike Pack meeting (3:004:00) Kickball

X (p. 246)

X (p.232) nature and wildlife (p. 238)

X (p. 232) X (p. 245) Review of fire safety/building, Outdoor Cooking

X (p. 246)

Mass Dinner Campfire* The cub scouts have invited any elementary aged girls to attend their morning rotations (highlighted in yellow). The four activities listed will be set up in stations lasting 30 minutes each. Tenderhearts will also take some time to work on their nature and wildlife badge after the hike. The older girls may find the boy scout activities more in line with their requirements and have been invited to join them at that time. RSVPs would be helpful and thoughtful, so if you know you plan to attend any scout activity please let us know. * After the group campfire, we will have an AHG campfire with smores. Fixin’s will be provided by the troop!

Sunday, March 30  8:00-10:00 breakfast and camp break down (official dismissal after the “police line”)  10:00 prayer service