Service with a Smile (or Sandwich)

Election season is over. What did you do to serve your lodge?

Every year, it seems like the lodge has three main phases. First, we elect candidates from January until April. Our second phase contains the three ordeal weekends and the six Brotherhood Conversions during Summer camp at Camp Hinds. Our final phase on the calendar is the wrap-up; the Lodge Leadership Development weekend, Annual Business Meeting, and the Banquet. If you do the math, that’s only 124 days out of the year when we’re with our fellow arrowmen from across Pine Tree Council, not counting chapter meetings. That’s approximately 34% of the year that we spend being heavily involved in Order of the Arrow business, and that’s only if you attend every lodge meeting.
    Some of you reading this may want to make that percentage a lot larger, much like myself. The thing is that in a way, YOU CAN! The Order of the Arrow is not a passive organization. If you want to do more for the lodge, that is always an option. There is always something that needs to be done to make our lodge the best that it possibly can be. If you want that percentage of time in the year that you’re involved with OA business to go up, find something to do! Since we are the Brotherhood of Cheerful Service, do service projects with your chapter! A great example of a chapter service project resides in Patrick campsite at Camp Hinds. The leaders cabin in the campsite was constructed by Casco Bay chapter a few years ago, and it shows just what arrowmen can do when we come together with a common goal.
    So, go out and get involved! With the ordeal weekends coming up there’s plenty of work to be done by all of us. Remember that in a bacon and egg sandwich the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. BE THE PIG!

Yours in Brotherhood,


Jeff Molina
2011 Lodge Chief

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