SCOUTS OWN

 OPENING PRAYER:-

Dear Lord, You know what it was like to speak the truth and be doubted, to try your best and to be scorned, to help those around you and to be misunderstood. Those trying to do their duty today often find themselves belittled by others, laughed at, and rejected. Help us lord to do as you did, and to persevere, happy in the knowledge that we do your will. Amen.

Coming together is a beginning.

Thinking together is unity.

Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success.

God will not ask your name or race,

Nor yet demand your birth,

This only will he ask of you,

What have you done on Earth?

CLOSING PRAYER:-

Lord, Help us to remember that the Scout Law is the foundation on which the whole Scouting program is built. If we're really going to be Scouts, then we need to build our lives on the high standards which Scouting puts before us. Grant that the Laws may be more to us than just words which we maybe can't even always remember. May they be a real code for living which we practice in our daily lives. We pray in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Go out into the world in peace. Be brave; keep hold of that which is good; never pay back wrong for wrong; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak and the distressed; give due honour to everyone. Be always joyful, pray continually; give thanks whatever happens; for this is what God in Christ will do for you.

                        Amen.

Scott