Membership Guide

Venturing Terminology

Venturing Areas of Emphasis (ALPS)

Adventure: Mentoring, leading, and participating in crew led adventures

Leadership: Ongoing leadership development through training, mentoring, and hands-on leadership

Personal Growth: Leading and participating in community service

Service: Goal-setting in support of personal growth

Scout Oath

On my honor I will do my best

To do my duty to God and my country

and to obey the Scout Law;

To help other people at all times;

To keep myself physically strong,

mentally awake, and morally straight.

Scout Law

A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind,

obedient, cheerful, thirty, brave, clean, and reverent.

Outdoor Ethics Code

As an American, I will do my best to

Be clean in my outdoor manners,

Be careful with fire,

Be considerate in the outdoors, and

Be conservation-minded.

Venturing Motto

Lead the Adventure “Venturers aspire to lead the adventure of a life guided by the Scout Oath and Scout Law.”