Pow WOWWWW 2025!!!!!
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Greetings and Salutations, Fellow Wearers of the Arrow!
We hope this finds each of you enjoying the cooling down of the seasonal change and into your routines of school and work from the summer.
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We are less than a week away from our annual Pow Wow gathering at Rainey Mountain where we will share fellowship, training opportunities, and the spirit of the Order and Scouting to celebrate what we have done as we prepare for the future. Your LEC has planned an eventful weekend with the theme of “Christmas in September!” Rumor has it that the jolly old Scout might even make an appearance as well. |
| In addition, we are proudly hosting the leadership of our new partners, the Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee (GTEC). Ms. Rhonda Bennett, the Council Chair of the GTEC, and her husband Jim are planning to be with us on Friday evening and much of the day on Saturday to learn about us and for us to learn about and from them. This partnership provides exciting opportunities as we learn to honor the native American culture and history of our home and their home here in northeast Georgia. Miss Rhonda joined us in January at our last Winter Banquet and she and Jim were a part of our Council Executive Board meeting at Rainey Mountain in June. Pow Wow will be the first lodge weekend event for them both. I hope each of you will do what you have always done and demonstrate the best of our ideals and values as honor Scouts as we welcome them into our family. There is much to learn which offers opportunity for growth. |  |
Thank you to those of you who have submitted the appropriate forms indicating your intent to run for a Lodge office. If you are considering stepping up to serve in the leadership of Mowogo Lodge in 2026, please submit your completed forms by the deadline. Serving in a leadership role crystalizes the best possible Scouting experience of youth leadership in the program as it is centered on and grows from the central philosophy of the ‘Youth-led” concept. Mowogo Lodge has a rich history of youth leadership that has absorbed the experience and translated into a life of service and leadership in their personal, professional, and community lives. That has made our world better. Are you ready to make your contribution, to grow, to learn, to serve, and to lead? If you have any questions about these opportunities, please let me know.
Our incoming Lodge Adviser for 2026, Brother Jason Preves, is planning to meet with as many of you as possible at Pow Wow to begin to share his vision and goals as well as hear from all of you. I hope you will offer your support and service to him as he steps into the role in January at our Winter Banquet. He and our Lodge Chief attended the National Council of Chiefs gathering at Philmont a month or so ago. Both have learned of some new directions the Order will be exploring in the next few coming years and will share some of that at Pow Wow as well. While there, I understand that Mr. Preves attended training on how to write appropriate emails (including length) and was also recognized as the most outstanding Adviser at the gathering! He has a beautiful (and large) medallion to prove it. Please join me in encouraging him to bring it and wear it all weekend!!!
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If you are planning to be a part of this annual gathering of spirit and fellowship but have yet to register, please do so as soon as possible. Food will be ordered at the beginning of this week and we want to make sure we have enough for everyone as well as be conscious of the ninth law of Scouting. Please follow this link to register:
As always, thank you. By doing your best to live by the ideals we find in the Scout Oath, the Scout Law, the Scout Motto, the Scout Slogan, and the Obligation of the Order of the Arrow you, quite simply, make this world, our world better. Thank you.
We look forward to seeing all of you this coming weekend!
Yours in Cheerfulness,
Rusty Royston
Lodge Adviser, Mowogo Lodge
Northeast Georgia Council, BSA