Welcome Back to Venturing

Hope you all had a great summer full of high adventure with your crews. This week is the first Venturing Forum for the fall of 2017, at 7 pm.

The latest newsletter is now published, and in the links to the right.

This Thursday we'll have a presentation on The Best Hikes in Arizona, along with a slideshow with (electronic) handouts on where to go.

We'll also talk a little about some of the changes with the LDS Venturing units.

Just a reminder that September brings Powderhorn Training for adults and Venturing youth. You can find the link here: https://scoutingevent.com/010-powderhorn

Hope to see you Thursday.

Discount Tickets for Golfland Sunsplash

As we talked at forum this month, discount tickets are available to Golfland Sunsplash in Mesa.

You can use this link: https://tickets.golfland.com/affiliate.asp?ID=8F7F6236-16B1-495F-AF21-05538A263D05

Powderhorn 2017

Adult high-adventure training weekend - aka Powderhorn - is scheduled at Camp Raymond for September 21-23.

This is an excellent opportunity to get trained in and personally experience high-adventure activities, as well have an all-around excellent outdoor time. Flyer will be attached soon, but get this on your calendar.

Here's the link to the Council calendar: https://scoutingevent.com/010-powderhorn

April Forum Summary

Thanks to those that brought dutch oven dishes, and for the rest that came to forum to eat and enjoy with us.

Once the chefs email me their recipes, I'll make a recipe link so you can download your favorites.

Of all the years we've done this, I think overall this year had the tastiest dishes - many thanks!

The contest winners were:

Main dish: Derrick Dickerson, Gilbert 3rd Ward - Dutch Oven Fajitas
Dessert dish: Rick Wilson, Fairview Ward - Scratch Brownies

Enjoy the month. We'll look forward to seeing you in May for our last forum before summer break.

April Form - Dutch Oven!

Reminder that April's Forum is this Thursday, April 6th. It's our Dutch Oven contest, with two 12" Cabela's dutch ovens as prizes to the best entree and best dessert dishes.

If you'd like to bring a dish - please do. I'll have the coals ready to cook out behind the church building in the North parking lot at 6pm. We need to be ready for forum to start at 7pm.

Any questions? Please email me.

Welcome to Forum for 2017

Tonight we will have our first forum for 2017.

We'll have a presentation on hiking Brown's Peak (Four Peaks), along with a presentation on how we can excel as new (or old) Venturing leaders.

Hope to see you there!

Venturing Forum - November 2016

Thanks to those that presented tonight.

We had an excellent presentation by Rod Standage about how to train youth to be leaders, and how to be the best leaders we can be.

You can find his presentation HERE and HERE

HERE is the link to the youth training files

Click HERE for a link to his roundtable website for more explanation.

Further thanks to Mike Smith for sharing information about Soap Creek Canyon as a hike.

You can find more information about that HERE

Reminder that next month is the District Awards Ceremony, located at 777 E Elliot Road in Gilbert, the LDS Stake Center on the corner of Lindsay and Elliot.

Our next forum will be January 5th.

If you have suggestions/request for topics for forums for 2017, please email them to me. Remember you can find my email address on the newsletters.

Thanks, have a great holiday season and we'll see you at forum in 2017.