Ready, Aim...

TCU is offering a shooting sports match open to College, High School, and Jr high age youth.  The match is scheduled for November 21 and 22.  The fee for participation is $5 per member of a team.

This sounds like a fun trip for your 4-H shooting sports teams.  Something out of the norm.

Till next time,
Kevin

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Brother Leo

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A legend tells of a French monastery known throughout Europe for the extraordinary leadership of a man known only as Brother Leo. Several monks began a pilgrimage to visit Brother Leo to learn from him. Almost immediately, they began to bicker about who should do various chores.

On the third day they met another monk going to the monastery, and he joined them. This monk never complained or shirked a duty, and whenever the others would fight over a chore, he would gracefully volunteer and do it himself. By the last day, the others were following his example, and from then on they worked together smoothly.

When they reached the monastery and asked to see Brother Leo, the man who greeted them laughed. “But our brother is among you!” And he pointed to the fellow who had joined them.

Today, many people seek leadership positions, not so much for what they can do for others but for what the position can do for them: status, connections, perks, advantages. They do service as an investment, a way to build an impressive resume.

The parable about Brother Leo teaches another model of leadership, where leaders are preoccupied with serving rather than being followed, with giving rather than getting, with doing rather than demanding. Leadership based on example, not command. This is called servant leadership.

Can you imagine how much better things would be if more politicians, educators, and business executives saw themselves as servant leaders?

Credit goes to Charla Bading for sharing this parable with me, and credit goes to Michael Josephson for posting it on the Character Counts Website.

Jr. Lab Registration to Close

Reminder District 9 4-H Jr Leadership Lab Registration closes today at midnight...  Well not really.  After today the late fee kicks in.

Till next time, Take Care,
Kevin

All Natural May Be Your Ticket

Check out the State 4-H Clothing Guidlines for this year.  The natural fiber catagories now advance to State 4-H Roundup.

You can still double enter the Natural fiber garment. (ex. enter it in Sr Dressy Construction, and enter it again in Senior Wool Constriction).  This change allows natural fiber garments two chances to advance to state...once in their standard category and once again in the natural fiber division.

If this all makes sense to you, you are probably an FCS agent with fashion experience.  If it does not make sense to you,  you will need to spend some time closely reviewing the new State 4-H Fashion Guidelines. I happen to fit in the latter category.

Till next time, Take Care,
Kevin

Lets Play

We often find ourselves leading games in order to drive home an educational message.  As often as not we find ourselves trying to teach teens to lead games.  The website above is developed for youth ministries, but whether we are saving souls or teaching life skills we can still use games to drive home the point.

Take a look at this link to the 7 deadly sins of game leading.  I kinda like the name considering it's a ministry site.

Till next time, take care,
Kevin

District 9 4-H Council Community Service Project

Just to make sure ya'll received the news, the council's community service project is to collect crayola crayons and coloring books for local hospitals. The goal of the council is to collect 75,000 crayons by the foodshow. The plan will then be to divide the crayons up into clusters and have 4-H groups in county's with hospitals that could benefit from this go and take the crayons to the hospitals. We are also accepting new coloring books. The crayons must be in the small boxes and have to be crayola or the hospitals won't accept them. Crayola brand crayons are guarunteed to be non toxic if eaten.


Thanks for ya'lls help

Bill Holcombe

Job Well Done

It is that simple...Job well done!  You did it.  You will do it again.  And I appreciate the work you do everyday with 4-H youth in your count and District 9.

I know you don't hear it enough, so I'm taking this opportunity as we celebrate National 4-H Week to tell you, JOB WELL DONE.

The 4-H program is success because of YOU.

Kevin

Make a List...

4-H Enrollment online is nice but what's the use in a county office if you can't use it to communicate with 4-H families electronically.  If creating email lists using 4-H Connect has eluded you, check out this video.  Derrick Bruton, Extension Specialist 4-H in the East Region will show you how in this 6 min video.

Good Mailing,
Kevin