Youth led, adult supported

Pfadfinder has been offering more and more opportunities for our youth members to lead our scouting activities.  As the youths progress from joeys to cubs to scouts to venturers to rovers, they are given more input opportunities and chances to practice their leadership skills.

This doesn’t happen without adult support, however, and on the scouts’ recent bike tour, I was the nominated adult.

It will be fun, they said!

Punctures, getting lost, it getting dark, getting lost again, searching for drinking water, repairing bikes on the run… all the while hearing this phrase over and over in my head:

It will be fun, they said!

Trying to keep the patrol together, following the patrol as they were biking up staircases, biking across bridges, biking under bridges, retracing our route to get back on track…

It will be fun, they said!

Biking through clouds of flies, ringing for backup, inquiring about the need for first aid, watching the patrol figure out where we were on the map and their phones, and hearing them calculate how dark it would be by the time we got back to the scout hall…

It will be fun, they said!

Caring for the stragglers, encouraging the scout patrol leaders, enjoying a beautiful sunset over the lake, sharing a fun learning experience with enthusiastic scouts…  What a privilege.   They were right:  It was fun!

Join our adult scout leader team and help support and enable young people to be their best.  It will be fun!

Leaders at Pfadfinder