TMP-Marian

The 12th point of scout law is: “A scout is reverent.”

The Boy Scouts of America has established Religious Emblem Awards for various faiths throughout America. Only 4 percent of Boy Scouts earn their Religion Emblem Award during their scouting career.

The Catholic BSA Religious Emblem Award is the Ad Altare Dei Award. Four TMP-Marian students who are also scouts in Boy Scout Troop 101, Hays were awarded the Ad Altare Dei Award in August by Father Bryan Lager, Salina Diocese BSA Chaplin, and were recognized at a Mass in Victoria last weekend.

These scouts worked on the award from August 2012 through October 2013. To earn the award, the boys participated in three weekend camping seminars in which they studied the seven sacraments and completed the religious emblem workbook.

They performed two full-day service projects in the community. They performed a multi-day service project for Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish – the renovation of the outside of the visiting sister’s house at 509 E. 19th. IHM parishioners Ed Neuburger and Olivia Becker (dba Western Aluminum and Glass) donated more than $3,200 worth of materials; Curt Pfannenstiel (dba Heartland Building Center) donated mroe than $300 worth of materials to the project. In all, seven scouts, along with six adults, including IHM parishioner Glenn Neuburger donated 300 hours of labor to the service project at IHM. Troop 101 adults who volunteered include Tom Drees, Tony Gabel, Dave Haberman, Bill Heimann and Michelle Springer.