Trapper's Brigade

The Trappers Brigade is a special auxiliary group within the Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship.

The purpose for Trappers Brigade is to promote Christian Service among the FCF members by encouraging their involvement and participation in service to their church and fellow man.

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.

Requirements for participation:

 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.

How points are earned:

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 in any “non-paid” position such as usher; teaching, or helping in Sunday school, participating in youth, bus, or music ministry; doing office work or printing; and participating in mis­sions emphasis, fund-raising, 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; or working at a hospital, library, service center, voter registration drive, city recreational facility, juvenile detention center, the Big Brothers organization, or the Boys Club. 

Outside the local setting, the member may accumulate hours (including travel time) for missionary trips with MAPS (Missions Abroad Placement Service), FCF Pathfinder missions projects, mis­sionary trips with AIM (Ambassadors in Missions), Convoy of Hope projects, AGHM (Assemblies of God Home Missions) projects, AGWM (Assemblies of God World Missions)   projects, Care Corps projects, U.S.O. (United Service Organizations) projects, disaster assistance, search-and-rescue missions, etc. Check with your District Commander or Chapter President for other considerations.

Recognition

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

Ø       Company Trapper - 50 total hours

Ø       Bourgeois (pronounced boohz-wah') - 100 total hours

Ø       Free Trapper -150 total hours

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

A Chapter FCF Trappers Brigade Authorization Committee will review the hours tabu­lated by the FCF members who qualify for recognition pins. Each FCF member needs to complete an application and submit the application to the committee. Pictures, letters, artifacts, items of interest, and things learned, enjoyed, or experienced should all be shared with the committee.

Young Bucks must complete the service under the supervision of an adult leader. The leader may be any adult who can sign the application and ver­ify what was done by the applicant. 

Trapper's Brigade Application

Please send all Trapper's Brigade applications and points to Kent 'Sap' Carruth.