Do you like great OA shows, fun games, High Adventure, Native American events, and getting to meet 7,000+ other Arrowmen from across the world? Then NOAC is the event for you! NOAC has many different aspects and it is impossible to participate in every event in one year. Each year events are added and changed so you could go to NOAC every time and do new things each time. You’ll get a chance to meet the OA National Chief, have fun at games and activities, learn lots and last, but not least, patch trading! NOAC has something for everyone of all backgrounds and all ages. It is definitely one of Scouting’s most unique and entertaining training events.
Attend all four events this year (Winter Fellowship, Spring Conclave, Fall Concalve, and the Lodge Leadership retreat) to assemble you unique Pa-Hin Back Patch. You recieve the ring with your first event, then attend the other three to assemble your patch.
Calling Ordeal Members! Complete your Brotherhood this year and get a special-edition Silver Ring for your Back Patch. Already a Brotherhood member? Attend a ceremony and receive yours.
Click
on the link to learn more about the
OA's High Adventure programs -- available only to OA members! Spend two
weeks at hiking as part of the Philmont Trail Crew, paddle Charles L
Sommers Canoe Base on the Wilderness Voyage, or learn to scuba at OA
Ocean Adventure.
OA
offers Arrowmen the unique opportunity
to work and play at the Boy Scout High Adventure bases. You'll spend a
week conducting service -- working on trails and portages -- and a week
choosing your own adventure. Program prices range from $125 to $250
(plus transportation) for the two weeks -- a great, inexpensive way to
experience the high adventure base.
Applications
and further information are
available at the website: http://adventure.oa-bsa.org/
Sign up Soon -- spots fill up by early winter!
The Vigil Honor is the highest honor that the Order of the Arrow can present its members. It dates to E. Urner Goodman, the founder of the Order of the Arrow, became the first Vigil Honor member. Since then, thousands of members have been given this honor.
The Vigil Honor is a high mark of distinction and recognition reserved for those Arrowmen who have given exceptional service, helping others beyond the call of duty, involving personal effort and unselfish interest. They have made distinguished contributions beyond the immediate responsibilities of their position of office to the Lodge, the Order of the Arrow and/or the Scouting Community/Scout Camp.
The 2008 Lodge
Service project is called Scouting for
Life. This service project, which was approved by the Lodge Executive
Committee (Chapter Chiefs, Lodge Leaders, Lodge Committee Chairs, etc.)
will target organ donations. There is a uniform law that has gone into
place through out ND, SD, MN, and MT that would make it legal to mark
your preferences as an organ donor at the age of 16. We are looking to
run a series of PSAs (public service announcements) and we need
videos!
Pa-Hin Lodge #27
