The National Leadership Seminar (NLS) has been a long-time staple of honing the leadership skills of Arrowmen from across the nation since its first introduction in 1978. When first implemented, the program itself was created with the main focus that the lodge key...

Black Hawk Lodge in the Mississippi Valley Council has started a local Order of the Arrow summer camp program called “Service Corps”. Service Corps focuses on giving Arrowmen the opportunity to attend Mississippi Valley Council’s Boy Scout summer camp but focus...

Philmont Scout Ranch is the premier base for all things Scouting, with features like rock climbing, blacksmithing and fishing. Many Arrowmen aspire to attend the Order of the Arrow Trail Crew program at Philmont Scout Ranch, a program focusing on brotherhood,...

During the final show of NOAC 2018, we heard a lot about what Decide Your Destiny truly means and how even the small actions we commit can have big impacts on our everyday lives. Well, the Arrowmen within Bigfoot Lodge took this idea to heart and decided to act upon...

Brothers,Thank you all for an amazing conference. The memories I made are ones I will remember forever - they would not have been possible without each of you. Throughout the conference, we talked a lot about destiny. About how the decisions we make today shape our...

Last summer, Arrowmen from around the nation gathered at Philmont Training Center to recreate a new, modernized Lodge Leadership Development (LLD) to help improve their programs.The rewritten LLD program is a fresh, innovative, and simple way to deliver quality...

When the Order of the Arrow was founded in 1915 by E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson, no one imagined the success and popularity it would have within the Scouting organization. The popularity of the Order of the Arrow was so great that a mere six years later the...

Click here to view the 2018 edition of the National Bulletin. Fellow Arrowmen, Over 95 years ago, a vision was proposed to better communicate with other lodges in the Order of the Arrow. This idea soon became the Grand Lodge Bulletin, first published by Grand Scribe...