Editing Scouting in Missouri (section)

==Baden-Powell Service Association in Missouri==

Missouri is home to the [[Baden-Powell Service Association]]'s former Chief Commissioner, David Atchley. Atchley, an [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]] in the [[Boy Scouts of America]], joined up in 2008, after being asked to leave his local [[Greater St. Louis Area Council]] after attempting to create a non-discrimination policy for the Cub Scout pack he was [[Cubmaster]] for. He started forming youth scouting sections for the BPSA based on other Traditional Scouting groups based in Canada and Great Britain. In 2009, Atchley became [[Scout Commissioner|Chief Commissioner]].<ref name=slpd>{{cite news|last1=Schremp Hahn|first1=Valerie|title=Baden-Powell Service Association brings inclusiveness to scouting|url=http://www.montereyherald.com/living/ci_22142468/baden-powell-service-association-brings-inclusiveness-scouting|access-date=13 January 2013|work=Monterey Herald|agency=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=6 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301175306/http://www.montereyherald.com/living/ci_22142468/baden-powell-service-association-brings-inclusiveness-scouting|archive-date=2014-03-01|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=stlbeacon>{{cite news|last1=Thakkar |first1=Neal |title=Take Five: David Atchley creates 'non-discriminatory' alternative to Boy Scouts |url=https://www.stlbeacon.org/?_escaped_fragment_=/content/26471/boys_scouts_alternative_081012#!/content/26471/boys_scouts_alternative_081012 |access-date=11 March 2014 |work=STL Beacon |date=14 August 2012 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Atchley then chartered his own BPSA scout group in 2010 called 10th Daniel Boone (now defunct) in [[Washington, Missouri]]. He resigned his position as Chief Commissioner to Susan Pesznecker in August 2015.

Currently, the [[Baden-Powell Service Association]] has just one chartered scout group in Missouri, and that is in the [[St. Louis, Missouri]] area.<ref name="inclusive">{{cite web|last1=Phillips|first1=Camille|title=St. Louisans Plant Trees For Peace|url=http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louisans-plant-trees-peace#stream/0|website=St. Louis Public Radio|access-date=5 October 2014}}</ref>  The BPSA is an inclusive, "back to basics" organization that welcomes boys and girls from 5 years of age through adulthood.

===66th Confluence===
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|name=66th Confluence BPSA
|image=
|type=council
|owner=
|headquarters=
|location=[[St. Louis, Missouri]] 
|country=United States
|coords=
|f-date=2012
|defunct=
|founders=Bridgett Wissinger, Jeffrey Kopp, Kathleen Carson, Karl Wulff, Jessica Saigh
|founder=
|members=54 (as of May 1, 2017)
|chiefscouttitle=Group Scoutmaster
|chiefscout=Colin Suchland
|chiefscouttitle2=Rover Scout Leader
|chiefscout2=Jeffrey Kopp
|chiefscouttitle3=Pathfinder Scoutmaster
|chiefscout3=David Mulcahy
|chiefscouttitle4=Timberwolf Pack Leader
|chiefscout4=Elke Overton
|chiefscouttitle5=Otter Raft Leader
|chiefscout5=Rebecca Durst
|website=http://www.66thconfluence.org/
}}

The 66th Confluence scout group was formed in November 2012 following a BPSA [[Baden-Powell's Scout training scheme|Brownsea Training Camp]] that took place September 14–16, 2012 at Klondike Park in [[Augusta, Missouri]]. Several of the newly received [[Rover Scout|Rover Squires]] from that training returned to St. Louis to begin the formation of the scout group, the ordinal "66" coming from the [[U.S. Route 66]] highway that once crossed St. Louis, as well as the [[confluence]] of the [[Missouri River|Missouri]] and [[Mississippi River]]s, which is also in St. Louis.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.66thconfluence.org/|website=66th Confluence BPSA|access-date=2 May 2017}}</ref>