Verband Christlicher Pfadfinder*innen

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Verband Christlicher Pfadfinder*innen
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Association of Christian Scouts and Guides
Location Kassel
CountryGermany
Founded1973 (1973)
Membership22,000
BundesvorstandLeah Albrecht, Peter „flip“ Keil, Eric Stahlmann, Daniel Werner
Website
http://www.vcp.de
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The Verband Christlicher Pfadfinder*innen (roughly: Association of Christian Guides and Scouts, formerly Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder, VCP) is a German Protestant coed Scouting and Guiding association. According to the VCP, the organization has about 22,000 members.

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It is a member of the Ring deutscher Pfadfinder*innenverbände (Federation of German Scouting and Guiding Associations, rdp), which in turn is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). [1]

In 2023 the organisation voted to rename itself to "Verband Christlicher Pfadfinder*innen" to make the name gender neutral. [2]

History

The association was formed in 1973 through the merger of three Protestant associations:

In 1976, some traditional Scouting groups left and formed a separate association, using the former name Christliche Pfadfinderschaft Deutschlands again. [3]

Two years later, the VCP held his first national jamboree. Since then, roughly every four years a national jamboree has taken place:

In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first groups of Protestant Scouts and Guides were formed in the still existent German Democratic Republic. Today, the VCP is present in all Federal States of Germany. [4]

Program

The association is divided in three age-groups:

The age-groups can be identified by their scarfs. Cubs wear scarfs with orange stripes, Jungpfadfinder with light green stripes, Pfadfinder scarfs with dark green stripes and Ranger/Rover scarfs with bordeaux-red stripes.

There is also a special branch for adults in Scouting, the Erwachsenenarbeit, which aims at all members older than 21 years including leaders and non-leaders. They wear scarfs with purple stripes. [5]

Like most German Scout associations, the VCP emphasizes on youth leadership. Most patrol leaders start at 16 and most leaders up to district level are younger than 25.

Promise

The VCP has no common Scout Promise. Its constitution proposes the following text, but other wordings are possible:

Im Vertrauen auf Gottes Hilfe
will ich christliche Pfadfinderin/christlicher Pfadfinder sein
und nach unseren Regeln mit euch leben.
Trusting on the help of God
I want to be a Christian Scout/Christian Guide
and to live with you according to our rules.

Rules

The association has no common Scout Law. It uses Scout rules, which should be formulated individually by each group. The constitution proposes a number of points, which should go into these rules. Despite this, many subdivisions of the association use a common Scout Law.

Scout centres

The VCP runs two national Scout centres:

as well as a number of regional Scout centres mostly maintained by subnational divisions of the association.

Rieneck Castle was leased by the Christliche Pfadfinderschaft Deutschlands in 1959 and bought in 1967. It is mainly used for training courses on national level, and the annual International Creative Workshop (IMWe). The VCP-Bundeszeltplatz was bought in 1997 and hosts camps from group to national level.

International Creative Workshop

The International Creative Workshop [7] (German: Internationale Musische Werkstatt (IMWe)) [8] is an annual Scouting and Guiding event run by the VCP. [9] [10] It usually takes place at Rieneck Castle. [7] As a Wood Badge training event, [9] the aim of IMWe is to give leaders of Guide and Scout groups the opportunity to explore their creative talents in a relaxed setting. [7] IMWe is prepared on behalf of the VCP by an international group of scouts [11] who meet several times a year to organize the workshop, which is held around Easter. [7] [12] The workshop lasts for 8 or 9 days, with a symbolic framework or theme. [7] Participants have to be aged 17 years or older. [8] [7] [13] IMWe has been represented at international Scouting events such as EuroJam 2005 [14] and World Scout Moot in 2015. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Unser Verband". Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Evangelische Pfadfinder benennen sich auf Burg Rieneck genderneutral um". 27 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Geschichte" (in German). Christliche Pfadfinderschaft Deutschlands. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Landesbüros". Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "VCP - Grundsätze". www.vcp.de. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "VCP Mittelalterwoche 2023 – Macht und Magie – Die Schriften von Rieneck". VCP Mittelalterwoche 2023 (in German). Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Søvik, Jostein (28 March 2008). "International Creative Workshop (IMWe)". Speiding.no (in English and Norwegian). Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  8. 1 2 "IMWe 2018 - International Creative Workshop for Scouts". eventsi.de. 3 April 2018. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  9. 1 2 Strunk, Piet (2011). Die Pfadfinder in Deutschland 1909 - 2009[Scouting in Germany 1909 - 2009] (in German). Novum Publishing. p. 255. ISBN   978-3-99003-246-6.
  10. ↑ "Bundesverdienstorden für Bocholter Ehrenamt" [Federal Merit Order for Bocholt volunteer] (in German). Kirchenkreis Steinfurt-Coesfeld-Borken Evangelical Church. 12 October 2013. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  11. ↑ "Við beislum sköpunarkraftinn og nýtum í starfið" [We harness creativity and use it for the job]. skatamal.is (in Icelandic). 29 April 2014. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  12. ↑ "IMWe 2022: Welcome to Dreamland". Pfadfinder Eisvogel Leipzig (in German). 10 May 2022.
  13. ↑ "IMWE". Scout.ch . Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  14. ↑ "Buehne" [Stage] (in German). German Contingent to the 2011 World Scout Jamboree. Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  15. ↑ Moot Handbook (PDF) (Report). UK Contingent to the 2017 World Scout Moot. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
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