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Trappers Brigade

The purpose of the Trappers Brigade is to promote Christian service among the FCF members by encouraging their involvement and participation in service to their church and fellowman.

The Trappers Brigade encourages the involvement of FCF members not only in their local church, but also in their community (e.g., needs, projects, and organizations), in this way extending their Christian influence and testimony.

The Trappers Brigade also encourages the involvement of FCF members in service world-wide including missions and civic duty.

To participate in the Trappers Brigade program an FCF member:

Must be a member in good standing with his FCF chapter with dues being current.
Must have participated in one FCF event during the current year. The event can be Section, Division, District, Territorial or National events. The event can be any FCF activity within an event such as participation in the Frontier Village during a Pow Wow or Camporama or Academy or other similar event.
Must be actively involved in his local church and Royal Rangers outpost

The FCF member need not have received his Buckskin or Wilderness status to qualify.

Service Points

Service points are accumulated when an FCF member volunteers his time (with no consideration for wages) in church, in community projects, in special needs organizations, or in humanitarian acts. He will receive one hour credit per hour of service including travel time. He continues to add his total hours together even after he has attained the next step. Projects are approved by the Chapter FCF Trappers Brigade Authorization Committee.

Service Projects

    Within the local church, service projects may include mowing the church lawn; visiting the sick; serving as an usher; teaching or helping in a Sunday School; participating in youth, bus, or music ministry; doing office work or printing; and participating in mission emphasis, fund-raising, or clothing or food drives.
    Within the local community, projects may include helping families who have lost their homes because of a disaster (e.g. fire, tornado, or flood); assisting needy people or children's groups; working with a hospital, library, service center, voter registration drive, city recreational facility, juvenile detention center, the Big Brothers organization, or the Boys and Girls Club.
    Outside the local setting, the member may accumulate points (not counting travel time) for missionary trips with MAPS (Missions Abroad Placement Service), FCF Pathfinder missions projects, missionary trips with AIM (Ambassadors in Missions), AGHM (Assemblies of God Home Missions) projects, Convoy of Hope projects, AGWM (Assemblies of God World Missions) projects, CARE Corps projects, USO (United Service Organizations) projects, disaster assistance, search and rescue missions, etc. Check with your district commander for other considerations.

Steps of Recognition

The three steps of recognition and the accumulated points needed to attain them are as follows:

Company Trapper-50 total hours
Bourgeois (pronounced boohz-wah') - 100 total hours
Free Trapper-150 total hours

For each additional fifty (50) hours earned beyond 150 hours, the Free Trapper will receive a numeral to be placed on his Trapper Medal.

A District FCF Authorization Committee will review the points tabulated by the FCF members who qualify for recognition pins. Each FCF member needs to complete an application and be interviewed by the committee. During the interview the FCF member will share the details of his service project. Pictures, letters, artifacts, items of interest, and things learned, ejnoyed, or exprienced should all be shared when meeting with the committee.
Young Bucks must complete the service under the supervision of an adult leader. The leader may be a pastor, youth leader, commander, community leader, missionary, district official, project coordinator, coach, parent, or any other adult who can sign the application and verify what was done by the applicant.

November 20, 2008

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