Southern Shores Field Service Council

Southern Shores Field Service Council
Owner Boy Scouts of America
Country United States
Founded August 14, 2012
Scout Executive Matthew Adams
Website
http://www.michiganscouting.org/

Southern Shores Field Service Council is a field service council of the Michigan Crossroads Council.

History

The Scouting program in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan saw drastic drop in membership beginning in the early 2000s. The decrease in population was due to the economy in Michigan and the resulting out-migration of population, jobs and industry. The Area 2 Project was created in 2010 and studied the impact on Scouting and presented the Crossroads Recommendation, which proposed that the ten councils in Michigan merge into one large council. As a result, in 2012, four field service councils were created consisting of former councils.

The Southern Shores Field Service Council is the result of a merger between the Great Sauk Trail Council and Southwest Michigan Council.[1]

Organization

BSA Councils in Michigan. The Southern Shores FSC serves scouts in southeastern and southwestern portions of Michigan.
Michigan Boy Scout Councils prior to the Michigan Coordinating Councill

The council is administratively divided into districts:

Kishahtek Lodge 88

Kishahtek Lodge 88 serves as the Field Service Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge. The name is translated as "Northern Lights" in Lenne Lenape, and the totem is the wolverine.

Similar to the Field Service Council, the lodge is divided into chapters, which correspond within district boundaries

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BSA Area Project". Boy Scouts of America. Archived from the original on 2011-12-27.


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