LEADERS' CORNER Helps for Lad and Crusader Leaders

Begin a Chapter Scrapbook

Begin a scrapbook of activities and on-mission projects completed by your chapter this year. Start with the very first chapter meeting. Some ideas for your scrapbook are:

• On the Cover: Your RA Chapter Name (have you named your chapter after a missionary? See "Start Here" point number 4 under "Helpful Tips for Getting Started." The year. Maybe the names of all RAs and Leaders. The RA Logo.

• Chapter Meeting pictures and descriptions. Include a summary of a routine Chapter meeting.

• On-Mission Field Projects. Take pictures and write up any on-mission projects as you do them. (Food Pantry stocking, visiting elderly or sick person, making craft for delivery to a charity organization, etc.)

• Fund-raising Activities. Snap photos at your bike-a-thons or Soup Suppers to raise money for missions organizations and funds (like Annie Armstrong or Lottie Moon, World Hunger--ERLC, etc.)

• RA Recognition Events. Include pictures of RAs being recognized during RA Week, or during end-of-year recognition activities.

• Advancement Achievements. Any time you award certificates, patches, pins, chevrons, medals, etc., take a picture and write it up in a paragraph.

• Visits by "outsiders." Document missionary speakers, pastor visits, or any other special visit from someone to your chapter.

• Camping or Church Events. Take along that camera when you take to the woods. Or, if your church has an RA Racer event, click click click!

Your scrapbook will serve as a wonderful testimony to others of the on-mission activities of your RAs. It may also serve as a GREAT Promo piece to recruit future Lads and Crusaders (and leaders). Make your book colorful and interesting--and most important--have fun!

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