Duty to God requirements (Arrow of Light)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: who helps here

Give the Scouts who arrive first something to do, so the meeting starts the moment they walk in.

• Put a sheet of butcher paper on the wall with the question: who helps our town run?
• Every Scout adds one job or one name as they come in, out loud, so the quiet ones hear ideas first.
• Leave it up through the meeting and point back at it in the closing.

0:10 · 5 min

Opening

Flag ceremony, Scout Oath and Scout Law. The same five minutes every week, run by the Scouts.

• The denner calls the den to order and leads the flag ceremony.
• Say the Scout Oath and the Scout Law together. New Scouts read from a card and nobody makes anything of it.
• One sentence on tonight's adventure, Duty to God, and the one thing everybody will get done.

0:15 · 5 min

Talk time

Den business while everyone is still sitting down, and a look at what is coming.

• The two dates parents need: the next den meeting and the next pack event.
• Ask who already did part of Duty to God at home, and write the names down so it gets recorded.
• Take one question from the den. Answer it or say when you will.

0:20 · 18 min

Activity 1: Discuss with your parent or legal guardian

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Duty to God.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Discuss with your parent or legal guardian your family's faith traditions or one of your choosing" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
• Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
• Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.
• Then requirement 2: hand it to your guest, who gets fifteen minutes and one ask: "Meet with a representative of a faith based organization in your local community that provides a…".

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: Discuss with our parent

Close requirement 3 of Duty to God: Discuss with our parent, legal guardian, or adult leader what "Duty to God" means to you. Tell how you practice your Duty to God in your daily life.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Discuss with our parent, legal guardian, or adult leader what "Duty to God" means to you" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
• Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
• Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.

Requirement 3

0:55 · 5 min

Closing

End on time, and make sure every Scout leaves knowing what they finished.

• Cubmaster's minute: one short thought tied to what the den just did. Sixty seconds, no lecture.
• Read back what got finished tonight, requirement by requirement, so the Scouts hear their own progress.
• Send the den off with the den yell, and catch the parents who need to hear something at pickup.