Y Adventure Guides: Circle Monthly Meeting Ceremony
Opening Ceremony
Navigator: All members young and old of the ______Circle will now form our circle.
Drumbeater, please give our drum a beat for each princess present.
Drumbeater: (Beats the drum for each princess present)
Navigator: We give thanks for this home and to the __(host)__ family who have shared it with us tonight. Drumbeater, beat the drum twice.
Drumbeater: (Beats the drum twice)
Navigator: What is the motto of the Y Adventure Guides?
Drumbeater: Friends Forever!
Navigator: (Circle name)s, what is the significance of our compass symbol?
All: The Family is the true north, the focus of our program.
Our love of Nature makes us stronger.
Our community is called a Circle, and binds us together.
Fun is the magic of our program.
Navigator: Drumbeater, what is a Y Adventure Explorer?
Drumbeater: A girl with a dad like mine!
Navigator: What is the pledge of all Y Adventure Guides?
All: We, Y Adventure Guides and Explorers, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to this circle, and to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of Our Creator.
Navigator: Our adventure will now begin! Log Keeper, please read the scouting reports from our last meeting.
Log Keeper: (Reads the minutes of the last meeting)
Navigator: Log Keeper, will you please record our new scouting reports while the Treasure Keeper collects our dues.
Each Princess gives her scouting report and gives the Treasure Keeper $xx when she is done. The opening ceremony adjourns to crafts and Guide business.
Closing Ceremony
Navigator: Now let us remember the goals of our Circle:
To be clean in body and pure in heart
To be friends forever, father and daughter
To love the sacred circle of my family
To listen while others speak
To love my neighbor as myself
To respect the traditions and beliefs of all people
To seek and preserve the beauty of our Creator’s work in forest, field and stream
All: Waynoon!
Adapted by Ken Shimizu/Clear Water of the Zephyr Circle/Sierra Expedition