Plenty of Good Reasons to Be A Scout

1. Plenty of Good Reasons
to Be A Scout
His Hands Church

2. Plenty of Good Reasons to Be A Scout
 Located in a former K-Mart in Woodstock, Georgia, His Hands Church
promotes itself as a non-religious church, a place where hard-working
Georgians could come and spend an hour or so to let it all hang out in the
worship of God. The church is active in community affairs, and served as
the venue for a coalition of groups to distribute new backpacks and school
supplies to children who needed them. His Hands Church hosts meetings of
community groups like the Cherokee-Pickens District of the Boy Scouts of
America’s Atlanta Area Council, and sponsors Scout Troop 6410.

3. Plenty of Good Reasons to Be A Scout
 Despite some controversies, Scouting presents boys age 11 and older with
a special opportunity to learn outdoor skills like hiking, camping, cooking
over an open fire, aquatic skills, and first aid, among many others. The
Scouts also emphasizes citizenship in the family, the community, and the
nation, and teaches boys about the value of hard work, integrity, and
teamwork.

4. Plenty of Good Reasons to Be A Scout
 Troop 6410’s website points out a host of special statistics about Scouting.
For example, although only 4 of every 100 boys in the United States
become Scouts, fully three-fourths of American business, religious, and
political leaders participated in Scouts. Additionally, of America’s 233
astronauts, 133 were Scouts, and of the first 29, 26 had earned their Eagle
badges.

5. Plenty of Good Reasons to Be A Scout
 Scouting seems to be synonymous with achievement . A majority of the
graduates of the services academies have been Scouts, as were 72% of
America’s Rhodes Scholars and 65% of its college graduates. The ranks of
the fabulously successful are peppered with former Eagle Scouts like Sam
Walton, John Glenn, Hank Aaron, Gerald Ford, and Steven Spielberg. On
the other hand, there are many people who didn’t quite make it to Eagle,
but managed to do well in life anyway - people like John F. Kennedy, Bill
Gates, Harrison Ford, and a Briton who never quite made it to Queen’s
Scout, Paul McCartney.

6. Plenty of Good Reasons to Be A Scout
 On a final note, very few of the boys who ever appear before a juvenile
court judge are Scouts.