Religious Award

[High Voltage]

Is there a site that anyone knows of that i can get free downloads of the God & Life Award. I'm really need to know what the requierments are.

[PaulSWolf]

Is there a site that anyone knows of that i can get free downloads of the God & Life Award. I'm really need to know what the requierments are.

Check what's available at http://www.praypub.org

[scoutaholic]

I've never found a good source that lists requirements for the various religious awards.

praypub.org has a few. The council office has a few, but for most you have to contact the religious organizations.

I live in a predominately LDS (Mormon) area, and my troop is sponsored by an LDS church congregation. The church distributes information and requirements for it's religious awards free. You can just go to the church distribution center and get a free copy from the shelf. The LDS church started a new recognition program about 5 years ago, but the new program is not recognized by the BSA. Many LDS scouters don't even realize that the BSA recognized "On My Honor" award is still available. I've never found a website that list requirements for either award, and our council office doesn't have it. You have to get them from the church.

[Nuts4Scouts]

Most of the Religious Emblem requirements are not found on the 'Net because the religious organizations don't want you working on them on your own. Most, especially at the high school level, require that you work with a trained mentor from your religious organization. The workbooklets have a page at the end where the mentor, religious organization representative &, in some cases, religious BOR, must sign. Turning in these signed forms is the only way that the medal can be purchased from the religious organization.

If you just want to skim thru & see if you are interested in earning the award, go to your area Scout Shop. They should have copies of the God & Life workbooklet you might be able to look thru.

[Jack]

http://usscouts.org/advance/boyscout/religious.html

This link may help. I'm not sure how much detail it goes into though.

[PaulSWolf]

Most of the Religious Emblem requirements are not found on the 'Net because the religious organizations don't want you working on them on your own. Most, especially at the high school level, require that you work with a trained mentor from your religious organization. The workbooklets have a page at the end where the mentor, religious organization representative &, in some cases, religious BOR, must sign. Turning in these signed forms is the only way that the medal can be purchased from the religious organization.

If you just want to skim thru & see if you are interested in earning the award, go to your area Scout Shop. They should have copies of the God & Life workbooklet you might be able to look thru.

More to the point, actually is that most of the Religious Emblem requirements are not found on the 'Net because the religious organizations want you to BUY the booklet in order to generate funds to pay for the upkeep of the program. (same reason why merit badge pamphlets aren't on the 'net.)

One major exception is the Jewish emblems. The National Jewish Committee on Scouting specifically WANTS Scouts to download the requirements and application, from http://jewishscouting.org and has discontinued the printing and distribution of the pamphlets by BSA.

http://usscouts.org/advance/boyscout/religious.html

This link may help. I'm not sure how much detail it goes into though.

I maintain that page. The only thing there is a list of the emblems, with addresses and links where available, to the sponsoring organizations.