Enhance Your Parish's Youth Ministry The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America is to provide an educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop Scouting is an integral part of Catholic youth ministry. Millions of youths have joined Catholic Scout units over the past sixty years and thousands of them have become community and church leaders. Scouting gives young people a constructive means of belonging to a group. It provides reinforcement to the values taught by the Catholic Church. Scouting has always been about seeking friends and role models young people can admire and seek to emulate as an adult. Through Scouting in the Catholic Church, youths are given many opportunities to achieve and to hone their abilities to meet the future head-on. Scouting is youth ministry at its best, providing your parish an the opportunity to model their faith for a new generation
Erie Diocese Catholic Committee on Scouting The Erie Diocese Catholic Committee on Scouting is formed of a group of adults called to minister to the spiritual, mental and physical needs of youth in the Scouting program. This may take place on a parish level sponsoring a Scout unit, on a council level serving many Scout units or programs or on a diocesan level by being involved on the Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting.
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