Activities List and
Assignments
| Day |
Location |
Activity |
Prayer |
Led By |
| Day 1 |
Gilwell Field Assembly
(opening) |
Entry Prayer
(during
Welcome) |
During Gilwell Field Assemblies, it is customary
to enter and exit the field with an expression of reverence.
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer this morning is a quote
from Mother Teresa (in her own words):
Prayer is not
asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his
disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our
hearts.
Amen. |
Course
Director |
Exit Prayer
(during
Dismiss) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer this morning is a quote from
Sir Francis Bacon (16th century):
Humbly we pray
that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands,
and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou
wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies.
Amen. |
Course
SPL |
| Dinner |
Grace
(before food is
served) |
Before breakfast and lunch at Wood Badge,
staff and participants may say grace as is the custom within their faith.
At dinner, it is customary for our group to observe a grace before meals
as a community.
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our grace-before-the-meal this evening is the
Philmont Grace (BSA grace originating at Philmont Scout Ranch):
For food,
For raiment,
For life,
For opportunity,
For
friendship and fellowship,
We thank thee, O
Lord.
Amen. |
Service
Patrol
CA |
| Day 2 |
Gilwell Field Assembly |
Entry Prayer
(before
Historic Flag) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer this morning is from the
Pirkei Avot (Per-Kay Ah-Voat)
or "Ethics of the Fathers" in the Talmud
(Mishnah Pirkei Avot, 1:14):
Referring to how lead a righteous life,
the revered sage Hillel
used to say:
If I am not for myself who will be
for me?
Yet, if I am for myself only, what am
I?
And if not now, when?
Amen. |
Program
Patrol
CA |
Exit Prayer
(during
Closing) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer this morning is from the
Book of Ecclesiastes, or KEHOLET (Keh-Ho-Let), as it is called in
Hebrew (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8):
To everything
there is a season,
a time for every purpose
under the sun.
a time to be born and a time to
die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up
that which is planted;
a time to kill and a
time to heal;
a time to weep and a time to
laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance;
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from
embracing;
a time to lose and a time to seek;
a time to rend and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.
Amen. |
Program
Patrol
Scribe |
| Dinner |
Grace
(before food is
served) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our grace-before-the-meal this evening is a
meal-time blessing from Christian tradition:
For food that
stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
Amen. |
Service
Patrol
CA |
| Day 3 |
Gilwell Field Assembly |
Entry Prayer
(before
Historic Flag) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer this morning is from the
irish tradition, dating to the first millenium, the bridgid of gael:
I arise today
Through a mighty strength:
God's power to guide
me,
God's might to uphold me,
God's eyes to watch over me;
God's ear to hear me,
God's word to give me speech,
God's hand to guard me,
God's way to lie before me,
God's shield to shelter me,
God's host to secure me.
Amen. |
Program
Patrol
CA |
Exit Prayer
(before
Gilwell Song) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer this morning is the Vocation Prayer
from Catholic tradition, Help me to Know:
You gift me with all the good gifts
that make me the person you created me to be.
Help me to know and find your will
and to trust that you will help me to understand
the path you call me to journey in life.
Where there is doubt give me courage.
Give me a heart open to your quiet voice
so I can hear your call to me.
Help me to know your faithfulness
and help me to be faithful
to that which you call me to.
Amen. |
Program
Patrol
Scribe |
Scout's Own Service
(staff led) |
Service Booklet |
(See WB NE-I-268 Service Booklet, prepared by
staff) |
Course
Chaplain
and all CAs |
Gilwell Field Assembly
(closing) |
Entry Prayer
(before
Announcements) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer for this closing assembly is
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s statement of faith
from his "I've been to the mountaintop" sermon (1968):
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not?concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people will get to the promised land.
And I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Amen. |
Course
Chaplain |
Exit Prayer
(part of
Safe Journey) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer at this closing assembly is
a blessing from the gaelic tradition:
May the road
rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at
your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your
face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields
and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Amen. |
Course
Director |
| Day 4 |
Gilwell Field Assembly
(opening) |
Entry Prayer
(before
Historic Flag) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer this morning is from
the Christian Science tradition, For the Children
(Mary Baker Eddy):
Father-Mother God,
Loving me, -
Guard me when I sleep;
Guide my little feet
Up to Thee.
Amen. |
Program
Patrol
CA |
Exit Prayer
(before
Gilwell Song) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer this morning is from
Hindu tradition, a quote from the rig
veda:
Let us be
united;
Let us speak in harmony;
Let our minds apprehend alike.
Common be our prayer,
Common be the end of our assembly;
Common be our resolution;
Common be our deliberations.
Alike
be our feelings;
Unified be our hearts;
Common be our
intentions;
Perfect be our unity.
Amen.
|
Program
Patrol
Scribe |
| Dinner |
Grace
(before food is
served) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our grace-before-the-meal this evening is
from Catholic tradition:
Bless us, O Lord!
and these Thy gifts,
which we are about to receive from Thy bounty,
through Christ our Lord.
Amen. |
Service
Patrol
CA |
| Day 5 |
Gilwell Field Assembly |
Entry Prayer
(before
Historic Flag) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer this morning is from the
New Testament,
Mary's Song of Praise (Luke 1:46-55):
My soul
proclaims the greatness of the Lord;
My spirit
rejoices in God my savior.
For he has looked
upon his handmaid's lowliness;
behold, from now
on will all ages call me blessed.
The Mighty
One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him.
He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart.
He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones
but lifted up the lowly.
The hungry he has filled with good things;
the rich he has sent away empty.
He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his
mercy,
According to his promise to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his descendants forever.
Amen. |
Program
Patrol
CA |
Exit Prayer
(before
Gilwell Song) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer this morning is from Jewish
tradition, El-Oh-Hi Ne-Shah-Mah (the soul is
pure):
The soul which You, my God, have given
me is pure.
You created it.
You formed it.
You breathed it into
me.
You keep body and soul together.
One day, You will take my
soul from me,
to retore it to me in life eternal.
So long as this
soul is with me,
I acknowledge You, Lord, My God,
My ancestors'
God, Master of all creation,
sovereign of all souls.
Praised are
You, Lord,
who restores the sould to the lifeless, exhausted
body.
Amen. |
Program Patrol
Scribe |
Scout's Own Service
(participant led) |
Service Booklet
(assembled by CAs) |
(See WB NE-I-268 Service Booklet, prepared by
Patrol
CAs) |
Service
led in
turns by
Patrol
CAs |
Dinner
(in patrol
sites) |
Grace
(before food is
served) |
Each patrol may choose its own way to be reverent at meal time.
A suggested grace-before-the-meal this evening is the nazr
- a mealtime blessing - in the Sufi Islam tradition (pir-o-murshid inayat khan):
O Thou,
Sustainer of our body, heart, and soul.
Bless all we receive
In thankfulness.
Amen.
An alternate suggested grace-before-the-meal is a
blessing from Hindu tradition:
This ritual is
One.
The food is One.
We who offer the food are One.
The fire of hunger is also One.
All action is One.
We who
understand this are One.
Amen.
|
Each Patrol's CA |
| Day 6 |
Gilwell Field Assembly |
Entry Prayer
(before
Historic Flag) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer this morning is from
Buddist tradition, the way of the bodhisattva (shantideva - 8th
century):
For as
long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the
world.
Amen.
|
Program
Patrol
CA |
Exit Prayer
(before
Gilwell Song) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer this morning is from Celtic tradition, by David
Adam:
Circle
me, Lord.
Keep protection near And danger afar.
Circle me, Lord.
Keep hope within. Keep doubt without.
Circle me, Lord.
Keep
light near And darkness afar.
Circle me, Lord.
Keep peace
within. Keep evil out.
Amen.
| ?
Program
Patrol
Scribe |
Gilwell Field Assembly
(closing) |
Entry Prayer
(during
Opening) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-entry prayer at this closing
assembly is from Chief Yellow Lark of the Lakota
tribe (1887):
Oh, Great
Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life
to all the world,
hear me.
I am small and weak.
I need your
strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty
and make my eyes ever
behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things
you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me
wise,
so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength,
not to be superior to my brother,
but to
fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to
you
with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades, as
the fading sunset,
my spirit will come to you without shame.
|
Course
SPL |
Exit Prayer
(during
Closing Comments) |
Please prepare yourself for prayer, each according
to your own custom.
Our field-exit prayer at this closing assembly is
The Midshipman Prayer (Interfaith version) from the
U.S. Naval Academy:
Almighty God, whose way is in the sea,
whose paths are in the great waters,
whose command is over all and whose love never faileth;
let me be aware of Thy presence and obedient to Thy will.
Keep me true to my best self,
guarding me against dishonesty in purpose and in deed,
and helping me so to
live
that I can stand unashamed and unafraid
before my
shipmates, my loved ones, and Thee.
Protect those in whose love I live.
Give me the will to do my best
and to accept my share of responsibilities
with a strong heart and a cheerful mind.
Make me considerate of those entrusted to my leadership
and faithful to the duties my country has entrusted in me.
Let my uniform remind me daily
of the traditions of the service of which I am a part.
If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith;
if I am tempted, make me strong to resist;
if I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again.
Guide me with the light of truth
and give me strength to faithfully serve thee,
now and always.
Amen. |
Course
Director |