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Protestant Committee on Scouting
Heart of America Council, BSA |
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Stephen F. Walton, AS - Committee Chair. Steve has served as an adult Scouter for 30 years, and is the father of two Eagle Scouts. He has been a member of the Protestant Committee on Scouting for over 20 years and has served as a volunteer camp chaplain during ten different summers since 1994; he is a certified as a BSA National Camp School chaplain. He is a member of Colonial Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri, where he has served as a deacon and on several building committees. He has served youth through the Boy Scouts of America in numerous positions, including scoutmaster; chartered organization representative; and district commissioner, training chairman and advancement chairman. He has received the Silver Beaver Award, is Wood Badge trained and is a Sagamore in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. Currently, he works as an independent contract customer engineer, and his past employers in the information technology industry include Control Data, British Telecom, DecisionOne, Bendix and Colonial Presbyterian Church.
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Warren F. Vosler, BArchE, BS-Engineering Operations - Committee Vice-Chair. Warren has served God though both his church and Scouting for decades. He is a member of Cherokee Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Prairie Village, Kansas, where he has served as a both a deacon and elder, and he has been an adult Scouter since 1980. He has served as a certified BSA National Camp School camp chaplain for seven summers at the Naish and Bartle Scout Reservations, and has been a member of the Protestant Committee on Scouting since 1997. He has held multiple Boy Scout troop and district positions, as well as assisted with God and Country religious emblem classes. He is Wood Badge trained, and has received the God and Service and Silver Beaver awards. He is a brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow and is an honorary warrior in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. He is retired after 37 years of service with Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers.
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Tom Carlisle, BS - Committee Treasurer. Tom is a lifetime member of Kansas City's Westport Presbyterian Church, where he has served on numerous presbytery committees and boards, and he has completed over 65 years of continuous service to Scouting. In his youth he earned the Eagle Scout award and was the only second person in the Kansas City Area Council to earn the God and Country Award. He has served in many roles in Scouting, including as the scoutmaster of his boyhood troop, Troop 102. He is retired after over 40 years of banking and continues to serve as a commissioner each summer at the Bartle Scout Reservation. He has received the God and Service Award from Westport Presbyterian Church and the Silver Beaver Award from the Heart of America Council. Tom is a Sagamore in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say.
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Cindy Cone, BS, MDiv - Bartle Scout Reservation Chaplain and Committee Liaison. Cindy has received a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She currently serves at Calvary Lutheran Church, LCMS, in Kansas City, Missouri, as a Pastoral Assistant and After School Program Director. She serves on multiple committees for the Heart of America Council, BSA, in addition to the Protestant Committee on Scouting. She has been the Bartle Scout Reservation Chaplain since 2005, where she served as a camp session chaplain for seven years prior to that. She is a trained and certified chaplain by the Boy Scouts of America's National Camp School, and she has also served as National Camp School trainer to other Scout camp chaplains. She is the mother of an Eagle Scout, has received the Silver Beaver Award and is a Sachem in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say.
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Russ Munyan, BGS, MLA - Naish Scout Reservation Liaison. Russ is a lifelong Scouter, and has been active with the Protestant Committee on Scouting since 1993. He is an Eagle Scout and the father of two Life Scouts. He has served as BSA camp chaplain in the Heart of America and San Diego-Imperial Councils, and he was certified as a BSA National Camp School chaplain. He has received the God and Service and Celtic Cross adult religous emblems, and he is a Medicine Man in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. He is a part-time instructor with Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, a college-level course on world missions; is a former staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ; and a former seminar leader with Walk Thru the Bible Ministries. He is currently self-employed as a freelance writer in Olathe, Kansas, and is a member of Covenant Chapel (an Evangelical Presbyterian Church) in Leawood, Kansas.
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