Scouts BSA Troops 390 (Boys) & 7390 (Girls)
Troops 390 and 7390 are sponsored by Faith Lutheran Church. The Troops are very grateful to Faith Lutheran for allowing us to continue to use their facilities for our meetings and activities.
Currently, Troop 390 has 22 Scouts and Troop 7390 has 8 Scouts.
2024 activities included:
• Thirty two Scouts attended one week of summer camp at Camp Manatoc where they earned over 90 merit badges.
• Nine older Scouts went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico where they backpacked for 12 days and hiked over 60 miles
• Eleven of our 8th & 9th grade Scouts spent a week in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains learning the skills of early settlers including black smithing, black powder shooting, and preparing their meals over an open fire.
• We continued to have monthly campouts including a weekend at Kelleys Island in May, attending the D-Day Re-enactment in Conneaut in August, and going white water rafting in September
• We had our first 2 Eagle Scouts in Troop 7390! Congratulations to Elizabeth Nester and Marie Gentile.
• Speaking of Eagle Scouts, the flag retirement box (Eagle Scout project from 2022) has collected over 60 American flags which have been retired during summer camps at Camp Manatoc.
• Four of our Scouts served on staff of National Youth Leadership Training Camp (NYLT) and we were able to send three additional Scouts as campers to learn leadership skills.
• Service is still a large part of Scouting and our youth stayed engaged in their community through a variety of service projects. They helped with Eagle projects: building outdoor games for Richfield Heritage Preserve and building and installing a bench and adding new pavers in the prayer labyrinth behind Bath Church. They helped with clean up after the Fairlawn Women’s Rummage Sale. We also adopted a Head Start family at Christmas to provide food and gifts for the family members. This was our 22nd year of supporting a Head Start family a Christmas.
• We were busy Memorial Day weekend where the Troops assisted with the VFW Memorial Day Service in Fairlawn and helped to install flags on graves of servicemen and servicewomen at the Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman.
• Scout also stayed busy earning religious awards; two Scouts were presented with the Ad Altare Dei Award at Catholic Diocesan Court of Honor Mass in November and all Scouts earned their Duty to God award at summer camp.
• Our Annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser was held on March 2nd and was very successful. Not only is this an important fund raiser for the Troops, the Scouts learn valuable skills serving as hosts/hostesses and waiters/waitresses.
We are proud to be chartered by Faith Lutheran Church and want to express our appreciation to the Congregation. The Scouting program continues strong at Faith. You can always stay updated with our events and activities through our website bsatroop390.org.