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27-June-2000
GA00067

	God and Service awards presented to distinguished volunteers

	by Emett H. Barfield

Long Beach, June 27 - The National Association of Presbyterian Scouters held
their annual General  Assembly breakfast at Covenant Presbyterian Church of
Long Beach.

	The high point of the meeting was the presentation of the God and Service
award to four distinguished Scouting volunteers.  Reminding the gathering
that this award is uniquely a Presbyterian award  for service to Boy Scouts
of America, President James H. Snyder presented this year's awards to John
Herndon, III, Elliot Kerlyn, Fran Kerlyn, and Sam Rue.

	Lee Martin, Scout executive for the Long Beach Council witnessed to
breakfasters on  the value of scouting in the lives of young men and women.
"I found Christ through Scouting," acknowledged Scouter Martin.

	He shared the Scouter volunteer philosophy that a hundred years from now it
will not matter what someone's bank account was, or in what kind of house a
person lived, or the  kind of car that was driven. But the world will be
different, because that person was important in the life of a boy.  He
challenged the group by asking "Are you going to be the one, is the church
going to be the organization to effect change [through Scouting] in these
young lives?"

	 A special certificate of recognition was presented to the Rev. Herbert N.
Christ, stated clerk of the Presbytery of San Diego for his efforts in
promoting and establishing Boy Scout troops in his presbytery and the
surrounding area.

	The meeting was closed with a quote from Robert Service, "A promise is a
debt unpaid and the trail has its own strong code."

	The benediction was given by the Rev. George F. Hupp, Jr., National
Chaplain,  National Association of Presbyterian Scouters.

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