255th Bristol (Channel) Sea Scouts

Bristol Jamia Mosque

This afternoon saw eleven of our Beavers, including several of our newest recruits, joining us for a fun Saturday in Victoria Park.

The day started with a visit to Bristol Jamia Mosque in Totterdown, where we were given a warm welcome by Mr. Zaheer Shabir, who gave us a brilliant talk on what it’s like to be a Muslim and a demonstration of how Muslims make their prayers to Allah. We were very grateful for the Mosque’s hospitality, which also allowed our Beaver Scouts to take another important step towards their Faith Activity Badges.

We then returned to the park, where the Beavers enjoyed a picnic. The sun may not have put in an appearance, but it was dry, and we filled the afternoon with lots of fun activities, including a blindfolded walk where the Beavers were led around on a rope, a visit to the adventure playground and a game of football. Following the Olympic theme that all our sections are running this year, the Beavers also had a go at shooting a very high basketball hoop. Congratulations to the Beaver Scout who scored!

You may like to check out the photographs of the afternoon in our Gallery.

Faith Activity Badge

“Dear God. Thank you for giving us people. Thank you for love. Thank you for pets. Thank you for planets and stars. Amen.”

These were the words of one of our Beaver Scouts tonight as Green Lodge took it in turns to read aloud prayers that they themselves had written. Over the next few weeks, each of our Lodges will be reading out the prayers that they have been writing in the five lodge prayerbooks, which they have been taking turns to take home since last term.

The writing and performing of prayers is an important part of the Faith Activity Badge, which is just one of the badges we are working to complete this term. To help our Beavers complete the badge, we are also trying to organise a weekend visit to Bristol Jamia Mosque in Totterdown followed by a picnic in Victoria Park. This was originally slated for this weekend but, unfortunately, we have not been able to organise it in time. We still hope to run the visit at some point this term.

We will send letters round ahead of a revised date once we have managed to organise the visit. We would urge all parents to send their Beaver Scouts along to the trip but, if your Beaver Scout is unable to join us when the time comes, then it may be possible for your Beaver Scout to complete the badge by visiting a separate place of worship in their own time and bringing back some proof of their visit.

Update: The mosque visit has now been arranged for Saturday 19th May. Letters will be circulated shortly.

The Beaver programme for the summer term is now available on the Programme page.

Are they in the shrubs?

Beavers and Cubs start again on Monday 16th April.

Three-legged racers

A Gallery of 41 photos is now available – we may add more soon.

The second roll

Why not check out our Gallery of the evening while you’re here?