Royal Rangers' Jump in Charters is Good News for Ministry

Karl Fleig, the Royal Rangers national director, is feeling good. The number of churches chartering their Royal Rangers outposts is up by 70 percent compared to last year and as Fleig shares, if the increase in charters continues to maintain this pace, great things are in store for the program. 

“Every church is required to charter their Royal Rangers program,” Fleig explains. “When outposts charter, which is similar to paying membership dues, the funds are invested back into the ministry — at the district office, at the national office, and perhaps what few may realize is the rest goes to funding and upgrading the Royal Rangers Training Center at Camp Eagle Rock.” 

Currently the Eagle Rock Campgrounds has to be subsidized in order to remain solvent. However, if the chartering continues to remain strong, not only will the campgrounds be fully self-funded through Royal Rangers, but it will also open the door to new and exciting things being done to the campground. 

Fleig says there are a number of benefits beyond the financial impact chartering has, including being able to better track membership and evaluate where the program is strong and where it could be stronger; insuring that churches that offer Royal Rangers agree with the statement of faith required to have an outpost; and enabling communication to and from the district and national offices. 

“Also, in addition to qualifying for discounts, all chartered outposts are added to our website’s outpost locater,” Fleig says. “This is a key benefit — if someone moves into an area and is looking for a church that offers Royal Rangers, they’ll quickly be able to locate the church or churches that have Royal Rangers using the locater. Outposts that aren’t chartered not only hurt the Royal Rangers program as a whole, they impact whether or not a new family looking for a church with Royal Rangers would even consider visiting.” 

Fleig adds that within the first quarter of the 2016-2017 chartering year, they’ve already exceeded the total number of new outposts that chartered all of last year. 

“Royal Rangers is an incredibly valuable and powerful ministry,” says Mark Entzminger, senior director of Children’s Ministries. “So many boys don’t have positive male role models in their lives — defaulting to what they see on TV, online, or in the movies. Being a gender specific program, Royal Rangers is one of the few places where boys are mentored, have positive male role models, and learn what it really means to be a godly man.” 

In celebration of the record increase in chartered outposts, Royal Rangers is having a flash sale of up to 35 percent off a group of specially selected items, today through Nov. 28. To view a Facebook video announcing gift pack winners from the chartering drawing and providing details about the flash sale, click here. 

Dan Van Veen

Dan Van Veen is news editor of AG News. Prior to transitioning to AG News in 2001, Van Veen served as managing editor of AG U.S. Missions American Horizon magazine for five years. He attends Central Assembly of God in Springfield, Missouri, where he and his wife, Lori, teach preschool Sunday School and 4- and 5-year-old Rainbows boys and girls on Wednesdays.