Are you brotherhood???
Have you been in OA for 10 months? If you aren't brotherhood, but
have been in OA for more than ten months, it is time that you consider
becoming brotherhood. When you joined our Order, you made a commitment
to both the Chapter and to your troop. Brotherhood is a way to confirm
this commitment that you made. As an honor scouter, we ask that you
get your brotherhood. The scoutmaster relies on his scouts in OA to
serve as role models for the younger scouts. By becoming a brotherhood
member, you show these scouts and your troop that you are dedicated
to our Order. Visit TahosaLodge.org
to get the check list and guide towards becoming an arrowman.
Your hard work and dedication got you to OA, now it is time to
seal your membership in our lodge, and complete your obligation
to your lodge. To become a brotherhood member: you must do the following:
1. Memorize:
- The Obligation (found on the back of you membership card),
- The OA Song,
- The Admonition.
- The Sign of Ordeal Membership
- Arrow Handclasp
- 10 Induction principles
- Customs and traditions of OA
- The meaning of OA symbols
- What WWW stands for in OA
2. Provide a letter, addressed to the Lodge Secretary, that explains
what the obligation means to you, and your specific plans of service.
Some ideas of service in the past have been being an Elangomat,
or becoming the Service Chairman and promoting Service in OA.
3. Serve your unit. Remain active within the scouting program of
your unit for at least a period of ten months. Strive to fulfill
the Obligation by continuing and expanding your service in your
unit and community.
Once you complete your membership, you are given the opportunity
to show the rest of Tahosa Lodge, and all other members of OA who
come to the Tahosa ring, by making a brotherhood log. For five dollars,
you decorate it, and help decorate PV. Now, where am I going to
put this huge thing and find time to work on it one might say. Well,
it just so happens that our chapter has one way to solve this. During
our meetings, we will have the tools needed to work on these fence
uprights. Once you have completed them, we will deliver them for
you to the location, where they will be put into place, for the
rest of Tahosa Lodge to see.
Our goal for this year is to attain a 30% brotherhood Conversion
rate. We almost reached that goal last year. You can help make this
happen by becoming a brotherhood member with at the First Cony Party
(May 10-12, @ Peaceful Valley) or at Fall Fellowship, Camp Rap,
or even at two weeks of Summer Camp at PV. For those of you who
are brotherhood you can help us reach our goal by assisting those
in your troop who aren't Brotherhood, become brotherhood. Learn
about the new Lodge Wimachtendienk Award by visiting TahosaLodge.org
Send an email to the our chapter
if you are interested in achieving your brotherhood.
Visit our General Information Page to learn more
about who we are and what we do as a lodge, and chapter
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