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Advancement Path

The Ranks

Each rank carries its own tagline, tests, and set of badges to earn along the way.

Saints Global · Ages 11-17

Seven ranks, Lightbearer to Beacon of Light

The full Saints Global progression, rank by rank.

Lightbearer
Rank 1

Lightbearer

Age 12 Catalog 2026.2

Kindle the flame

Where every Saint starts. Take the pledge, open a journal, and learn what showing up looks like.

Rank Requirements

  1. Join a Saints Global troop and be an active member for at least three months since your twelfth birthday.
  2. Recite the Saints Oath, Testament, Motto, and Slogan with your Troopmaster, and demonstrate the Saint Sign, Salute, and Grip.
  3. Explain the Covenant Path, identify the milestone you most recently passed, and describe the duties of a Deacon.
  4. Complete two DPAR goals in development cores of your choice, and report to your Troopmaster how you have grown.
  5. Give three hours of approved service, and record what you did and who it helped.
  6. Renew the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
  7. Complete a Troopmaster conference.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Study the scriptures for ten minutes a day for one month, and keep a simple record of what you read.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Write a thank-you note to someone who has served you, and deliver it.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 spiritual skill badge.
    • Studying the Gospel

Social Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 social skill badge.
    • Communication

Intellectual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 intellectual skill badge.
    • Countryman

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 physical skill badge.
    • First Aid

Leadership

  1. Teach a skill you know to another Saint, and describe the steps you used to teach it.
  2. Take a turn leading a patrol activity or game.
  3. Explain how your patrol is organized and tell how it shares its duties.

Frontier

  1. Build and safely extinguish a fire using minimum-impact methods. Explain when a fire is appropriate and when it is not.
  2. Tie the square knot, two half hitches, and the taut-line hitch, and explain how each is used.
  3. Describe what to do if you become lost on a hike or campout.

Self-Reliance

  1. Repeat from memory your emergency contacts, and explain when and why you would need them.
  2. Help build a written household emergency plan, and tell what your family should do in a fire or other home emergency.
  3. Keep a set of regular home duties for one month, and tell why sharing home duties helps the whole household.

Office: Lightbearer is earned the year a Saint turns 12, as he is ordained a Deacon in the Aaronic Priesthood.

Skill Badges: Badges earned at each rank are cumulative and build toward the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given when the Saint receives a priesthood or temple ordinance during his time in the program.

Badges along the way
Studying the Gospel
Penmanship
Journaling
Journeyman
Rank 2

Journeyman

Ages 12–13 Catalog 2026.2

Leave the threshold

First time out past home base — a service project, a campout, and badges earned on the trail.

Rank Requirements

  1. Be an active member of your troop for at least three months since earning the Lightbearer rank.
  2. Recite the Saints Oath, Testament, Motto, and Slogan from memory, and explain in your own words what one line of the Oath asks of you.
  3. Explain the ordinance of the sacrament and a Deacon's part in it.
  4. Complete four DPAR goals, one for each development core, and report to your Troopmaster how you have grown.
  5. Give five hours of approved service, and record what you did and who it helped.
  6. Renew the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
  7. Complete a Troopmaster conference and a board of review.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Pick three Christlike attributes. Work on one each week for a month, and record what changed.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Interview an older family member about his or her life, and record what you learned.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 spiritual skill badge.
    • Living the Gospel

Social Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 social skill badge.
    • Habits of the Household

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 physical skill badge.
    • Camping

Leadership

  1. Plan and lead a patrol meeting for at least 15 minutes.
  2. Welcome a new Saint and help him through his first month, and describe how you made him feel part of the troop.
  3. Explain why a leader serves the group before himself.

Frontier

  1. Orient a map with a compass and tell the meaning of five map symbols, then complete a compass-guided hike of at least two miles.
  2. Plan and cook one hot meal over a fire or camp stove, and describe how you cleaned up afterward and left no trace.
  3. Tie the sheet bend and the bowline, and describe a situation in which you would use each.

Self-Reliance

  1. Track a personal budget — income, spending, and savings — for one month, and explain the difference between a need and a want.
  2. Plan and cook a balanced meal for your family, and tell how it meets your family's nutritional needs.

Office: Journeyman is earned as a Saint continues to serve as a Deacon in the Aaronic Priesthood.

Skill Badges: Badges earned at each rank are cumulative and build toward the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given when the Saint receives a priesthood or temple ordinance during his time in the program.

Badges along the way
First Aid
Camping
Communication
Deseret
Rank 3

Deseret

Age 13 Catalog 2026.2

Build with the hive

The heritage rank. Work alongside other Saints, dig into family history, and learn what industry feels like.

Rank Requirements

  1. Be an active member of your troop for at least four months since earning the Journeyman rank.
  2. Tell your Troopmaster about a specific time this season when you lived the Saints Motto.
  3. Identify the next three milestones on your Covenant Path, and explain what each one asks of you.
  4. Complete four DPAR goals, one for each development core, and keep a written record of what you learned from each.
  5. Give eight hours of approved service, and record what you did and who it helped.
  6. Renew the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
  7. Complete a Troopmaster conference and a board of review.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Prepare and give a short gospel talk or lesson in a family or Church setting.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Plan and host a family activity or game night.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 spiritual skill badge.
    • Sharing the Gospel

Intellectual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 intellectual skill badge.
    • Financial Freedom

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 physical skill badge.
    • Cooking

Leadership

  1. Hold a patrol leadership role for three months.
  2. Organize a patrol service activity from plan to finish, and explain how you divided the work.
  3. Teach a younger Saint a skill, and describe the steps you used to make sure he understood it.

Frontier

  1. Plan a menu and serve as cook for your patrol on a campout, supervising a helper.
  2. Join poles into a usable structure using the square, shear, and diagonal lashings. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
  3. Pass the Saints swimmer test, and explain why a reaching or throwing rescue is safer than swimming to a victim.

Self-Reliance

  1. Compare prices on a planned purchase across three sources, and explain the choice you made.
  2. Assemble a household disaster kit for shelter-in-place and evacuation, and describe the hazards your area is most likely to face.

Office: Deseret is earned as a Saint continues to serve as a Deacon in the Aaronic Priesthood.

Skill Badges: Badges earned at each rank are cumulative and build toward the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given when the Saint receives a priesthood or temple ordinance during his time in the program.

Badges along the way
Church History
Temples
Genealogy
Ensign
Rank 4

Ensign

Age 14 Catalog 2026.2

Raise the standard

Take a squad role, lead a community event, and start carrying yourself like someone the younger Saints watch.

Rank Requirements

  1. Be an active member of your troop for at least four months since earning the Deseret rank.
  2. Lead the Saints Oath or Testament at a troop opening or Court of Honor.
  3. Explain the roles of the office of Teacher, to which a Saint is ordained at age 14.
  4. Complete four DPAR goals, one for each development core, and guide a younger Saint through setting one DPAR goal of his own.
  5. Give ten hours of approved service, and record what you did and who it helped.
  6. Renew the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
  7. Complete a Troopmaster conference and a board of review.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Attend the temple to perform baptisms for the dead. If you are not yet able, explain the ordinance and how you prepare to receive a temple recommend.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Host a guest at a meal, and practice the table etiquette your Troopmaster teaches.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 spiritual skill badge.
    • Discipleship

Social Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 social skill badge.
    • Just Serve

Intellectual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 intellectual skill badge.
    • Emergency Preparedness

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 physical skill badge.
    • Endurance

Leadership

  1. Hold a troop leadership office for six months.
  2. Plan and run a troop event or competition, and explain how you handled a problem that came up.

Frontier

  1. Plan and complete a multi-day trek or campout, carrying and using your own gear.
  2. Demonstrate wilderness first aid for a field injury and improvise a litter to move an injured person at least 25 yards. Explain what makes a situation an emergency and what information a responder needs.

Self-Reliance

  1. Keep a tracked budget for 13 weeks, recording actual income, expenses, and savings.
  2. Explain the difference between saving and investing, and what compound interest and diversification mean.
  3. Carry out a project that benefits your whole household from plan to finish, and describe what you would do differently next time.

Office: Ensign is earned the year a Saint turns 14, as he is ordained a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood.

Skill Badges: Badges earned at each rank are cumulative and build toward the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given when the Saint receives a priesthood or temple ordinance during his time in the program.

Badges along the way
Chivalry
Law and Order
Etiquette
Precept
Rank 5

Precept

Ages 14–15 Catalog 2026.2

Line upon line

Doctrine meets daily life — self-reliance at home, mentoring a junior Saint, household discipline you can name.

Rank Requirements

  1. Be an active member of your troop for at least six months since earning the Ensign rank.
  2. Teach the meaning of the Saints Oath to a younger Saint, and answer his questions about it.
  3. Explain the blessings of temple worship, and describe how a Saint prepares to enter the temple.
  4. Complete four DPAR goals, one for each development core. One goal must run the full season.
  5. Give twelve hours of approved service, and record what you did and who it helped.
  6. Maintain a Participation Rate of 50% or greater.
  7. Renew the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
  8. Complete a Troopmaster conference and a board of review.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Keep a gospel-study journal for a full season, recording one insight each week.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Work through a real disagreement using the steps your Troopmaster teaches, and describe what worked.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 spiritual skill badge.
    • Church History

Social Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 social skill badge.
    • Chivalry

Intellectual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 intellectual skill badge.
    • Navigation

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 physical skill badge.
    • Nutrition

Leadership

  1. Guide a younger Saint toward his next rank for a full season.
  2. Teach a skill badge or rank requirement to a group, and confirm they can perform it.
  3. Discuss what makes a leader worth following.

Frontier

  1. Lead a campout for younger Saints, supervising their fire, cooking, and camp setup.
  2. Describe at least three natural signs of dangerous weather and the action you would take for each.

Self-Reliance

  1. Open and manage a personal account, and explain interest, fees, and how to read a statement.
  2. Plan and prepare a full week of meals on a set grocery budget.
  3. Build a one-year personal financial plan with a savings goal, and explain how you will reach it.

Office: Precept is earned as a Saint continues to serve as a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood.

Skill Badges: Badges earned at each rank are cumulative and build toward the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given when the Saint receives a priesthood or temple ordinance during his time in the program.

Badges along the way
Living the Gospel
Self-Reliance
Habits of the Household
Dignitas
Rank 6

Dignitas

Age 15 Catalog 2026.2

Bear the weight

The quiet authority of service — hold a charter office, lead an expedition, and let the work speak.

Rank Requirements

  1. Be an active member of your troop for at least six months since earning the Precept rank.
  2. Teach the meaning of the Saints Testament to your patrol, and lead a short discussion about it.
  3. Explain the roles of the office of Priest, and describe how you are preparing to be ordained.
  4. Complete four DPAR goals, one for each development core, and present to your patrol what you learned from one of them.
  5. Give fifteen hours of approved service, and record what you did and who it helped.
  6. Maintain a Participation Rate of 55% or greater.
  7. Renew the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
  8. Complete a Troopmaster conference and a board of review.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Teach a gospel principle to your quorum or patrol, and answer their questions about it.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Write to a missionary or servicemember each week for a season.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 spiritual skill badge.
    • Temples

Social Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 social skill badge.
    • Etiquette

Intellectual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 intellectual skill badge.
    • Self-Reliance

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 1 physical skill badge.
    • Ropes & Knots

Leadership

  1. Train two new leaders for their offices.
  2. Lead a community service project involving Saints from more than one patrol.
  3. Explain how you adjust the way you lead for different people and situations.

Frontier

  1. Teach a field skill — knots, fire, navigation, or cooking — to a patrol of younger Saints and verify they can perform it.
  2. Discuss the impact of camping on the land and on other people, and explain how you keep it low.

Self-Reliance

  1. Complete a basic home-maintenance or trade task — a repair, an electrical fixture, or vehicle upkeep — under supervision.
  2. Write a résumé and complete a real job or volunteer application.
  3. Read a pay stub and explain gross pay, the taxes withheld, and net pay.

Office: Dignitas is earned as a Saint completes his service as a Teacher and prepares to be ordained a Priest at age 16.

Skill Badges: Badges earned at each rank are cumulative and build toward the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given when the Saint receives a priesthood or temple ordinance during his time in the program.

Badges along the way
Discipleship
Just Serve
Consecration
Beacon of Light
Rank 7

Beacon of Light

Ages 15–18 Catalog 2026.2

Light the way

Capstone rank. Plan and lead a Beacon of Light Project, train two rising leaders, and leave the path lit for the next Saint.

Rank Requirements

  1. Earned the Ensign rank.
  2. Earned 30 badges total: 21 BOL Required + 9 Elective.
  3. Explain the Covenant Path.
  4. Explain the roles of the office of Elder.
  5. Ordained a Priest.
  6. Maintain a Participation Rate of 60% or greater.
  7. Service Hours: 60 hours minimum, not including the BOL Service Project.
  8. Must not be 18 years old at time of award.

Spiritual Core Requirements

  1. Must have earned Lightbearer Award.
  2. Must have earned Armor of God Award.
  3. Must have earned Ensign Rank.
  4. Must have earned Covenant Path Award.

Social Core Requirements

  1. Renew Parent's Guide: Child Abuse with parent or guardian.
  2. Renew Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety with parent or guardian.

Spiritual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 6 spiritual skill badges.
    • Studying the Gospel
    • Sharing the Gospel
    • Living the Gospel
    • Genealogy
    • National Heritage
    • Temples
    • Church History

Social Skill Badges

  1. Earn 6 social skill badges.
    • Countryman
    • Habits of the Household
    • Financial Freedom
    • Emergency Preparedness
    • Communication
    • Chivalry

Intellectual Skill Badges

  1. Earn 5 intellectual skill badges.
    • Frontiersman
    • Ropes & Knots
    • Camping
    • Cooking
    • Journaling

Physical Skill Badges

  1. Earn 4 physical skill badges.
    • First Aid
    • Endurance
    • Nutrition
    • Pick One of the Following: Swimming, Hiking, Cycling, Backpacking

Leadership

  1. Serve in a senior troop leadership office, and help a Saint advance one rank while you are leading him.
  2. Represent your troop to the ward or community as a youth leader at least once, and tell how you have grown as a leader.

Frontier

  1. Serve as the field instructor for a troop campout, teaching Saints across ranks in outdoor skills.

Self-Reliance

  1. Present a launch-readiness plan: a working budget, a savings and education goal, and a path to your first year living on your own.
  2. Demonstrate one provident-living skill end to end — a repaired item, a series of meals cooked from scratch, or a budget managed across a full month — and tell how you will use it once you leave home.

Beacon of Light Service Project

  1. Proposal
    • Reviewed at Ward Level
  2. Review, Revisions, & Approval
    • Approved at Stake Level
  3. Report
    • Reviewed at Ward Level
  4. BOL Project Approval
    • Approved at Stake Level

Final Approval

  1. Troopmaster Conference
  2. Board of Review
  3. Ambition Statement + 5-year and 10-year plan
  4. 3 Reference Letters: Church, Educational, Employer, or Coach (no relatives).
  5. BOL Award Final Approval Package: Ward, Stake, and Area Seventy General Authority sign-off.

Advancement Summary

  1. 30 skill badges are required for advancement.
  2. Earn a Rough Stone pin for every 3 additional badges.
  3. Earn a Smooth Stone pin for every 9 additional badges.
  4. Exchange 3 Rough Stone pins for one Smooth Stone pin.

Rough Stone and Smooth Stone pins recognize skill badge work earned beyond the 30 required for Beacon of Light.

Spiritual Badge Count: Earn any 6 of the 7 spiritual skill badges listed.

Recognition: Beacon of Light is the highest rank in the Saints Global program. All listed approvals must be obtained prior to award.

Badges along the way
Just Serve
Sharing the Gospel
Discipleship
Junior Saints · Ages 7-11

Four Steps to Saints Global

A foundational progression — each rank prepares the next Saint to step onto the Saints Global trail.

gold merit bar
silver merit bar
bronze merit bar

Merit Bars

As a Junior Saint earns additional skill badges inside their current rank, they're awarded bronze, silver, and then gold merit bars — worn above the rank patch on the uniform as a visible mark of extra effort.

Ranger
Rank 1 · Junior Saints

Ranger

Ages 7–11 Catalog 2026.1

Step onto the trail

Every Junior Saint starts here. The joining rank — first patch, first pledge, first meeting.

Rank Requirements

  1. Get to know your fellow Junior Saints.
  2. Recite the Saints Oath & Testament with your Patrol.
  3. Recite the Saints Motto & Slogan and explain why they are important.
  4. Demonstrate the Saint Sign, Salute, and Saint Grip and explain when & why they would be used.
  5. Learn about the Covenant Path and identify key milestones on the path.
  6. Learn what the DPAR Method is and explain why setting goals is important to your personal growth.
  7. Learn the Junior Saint Code of Conduct & commit to the Smart Device Policy.
  8. Complete the following Parent's Guides with your parent or guardian:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.

Joining Rank: Ranger is the joining rank for all Junior Saints ages 7–11. Complete these requirements to join and earn the Ranger patch.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given if/when the youth is Baptised during their time in the program.

Badges along the way
Hiking
Reading
Badger
Rank 2 · Junior Saints

Badger

Ages 7–8 Catalog 2026.1

Dig in

Hands in the dirt, head in a book. Curiosity, grit, and the steady hands that finish what they start.

Rank Requirements

  1. Learn your national flag's history, folding the flag, raising and lowering the flag, and Court of Honor procedures.
  2. Recite the Saints Oath, Testament, Saints Motto, & Slogan with your Troopmaster.
  3. Demonstrate the Saint Sign, Salute, and Saints Grip and explain when & why they would be used.
  4. Demonstrate the square knot & two half hitches knots. Explain when they would be used.
  5. Explain the Covenant Path and identify key milestones on the path.
  6. Complete four DPAR Goals, one for each development core and explain to your Troopmaster how you have grown personally since completing them.
  7. Explain the Junior Saint Code of Conduct & commit to the Smart Device Policy.
  8. Renew the following Parent's Guides:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
    • Taking Charge of Technology Resource.

Spiritual Trail

  1. Living The Gospel
    • Explain what a testimony is and write down your testimony of the gospel in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Share your testimony at least once with a friend, family, or during church. Record your impressions in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Pick any three of the Christlike attributes and display them. Explain to your Troopmaster how you have demonstrated these attributes in your own life. Record your choices in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Create a study plan for reading the scriptures and keep record of it for 1 month in your Junior Saints Handbook.
  2. My Heritage & Family
    • Write a letter to a grandparent, aunt, or uncle. Ask them to tell you a story about when they were your age.
    • Explain what Genealogy is and why it is important.

Social Trail

  1. Countryman
    • Demonstrate respect for laws, leaders, and those in positions of authority.
    • Learn about what an elected position is and why it is important to elect our leaders. Learn about what term limits are and why they are important.
  2. Just Serve
    • Discuss the meaning of service and why it's important in faith and community.
    • Meet with a uniformed Fire Fighter, Law Enforcement, Military Member, or other civil servant. Prepare three questions and discover why they desire to serve their communities and how serving benefits their lives.
    • Actively participate in a service project.

Physical Trail

  1. First Aid
    • Recite & write down your emergency point of contact's full name, address, and phone number. Explain why it's important to know that & when you would need to share it.
    • With your parent, develop a household emergency response plan, practice it at home, and review the plan with your Troopmaster.
    • Explain what you should do if you encounter someone in need of first aid.
    • Demonstrate how to treat the following: cuts and scratches, burns and scalds, bites and stings of insects and animals, and nosebleed.
    • Make a personal first-aid kit. Demonstrate the proper use of each item in your first-aid kit.
  2. Endurance
    • Complete the Endurance requirements as outlined in your Junior Saints Handbook.

Intellectual Trail

  1. Outdoorsman
    • Complete a 1-mile walk.
    • Earn the Fire Safety Card.
    • Earn the Edged Tools Card.

Elective Trail

  1. BB Gun Shooting
    • Physical core
  2. Archery
    • Physical core
  3. Sports
    • Physical core
  4. Fishing
    • Intellectual core
  5. Reading
    • Intellectual core
  6. Wood Carving
    • Intellectual core
  7. Swimming
    • Physical core
  8. Nature
    • Intellectual core
  9. Music
    • Intellectual core
  10. Master Builder
    • Intellectual core
  11. Wilderness Survival
    • Intellectual core
  12. Outdoor Cooking
    • Intellectual core
  13. Cycling
    • Physical core
  14. Running
    • Physical core
  15. Science
    • Intellectual core
  16. Theatre
    • Social core
  17. Penmanship
    • Intellectual core

Trained Cards

  1. Earn Fire Safety Card.
    • Demonstrates safe fire-building, management, and extinguishing skills.
  2. Earn Edged Tools Card.
    • Certifies safe handling and care of knives, axes, and other edged tools.

Advancement Summary

  1. Bronze: 8 badges.
    • All rank-specific requirements + 8 required badges.
  2. Silver: 10 badges.
    • Bronze + 2 additional elective badges.
  3. Gold: 12 badges.
    • Silver + 2 additional elective badges.

Must complete all rank-specific requirements and the core Advancement Trail.

Pace Guidance: Advancement pace designed for 1 merit badge earned per month to reach Gold for a youth joining on their 8th birthday.

Age Guidance: Join group at the corresponding age.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given if/when the youth is Baptised during their time in the program.

Badges along the way
Gardening
Cooking
Art
Panther
Rank 3 · Junior Saints

Panther

Age 9 Catalog 2026.1

Move with purpose

Strong, quick, alert. The rank where the body gets trained and the senses sharpen.

Rank Requirements

  1. National flag & Court of Honor procedures:
    • Review your national flag's history, folding the flag, raising and lowering the flag, and Court of Honor procedures.
    • Participate in a Flag Ceremony during a Junior Saints Court of Honor.
  2. Recite the Saints Oath, Testament, Saints Motto, & Slogan with your Troopmaster.
  3. Demonstrate the Saint Sign, Salute, and Saints Grip and explain when & why they would be used.
  4. Demonstrate the square knot, two half hitches, and taut-line hitch. Explain when they would be used.
  5. Explain the Covenant Path and identify key milestones on the path.
  6. Complete four DPAR Goals, one for each development core and explain to your Troopmaster how you have grown personally since completing them.
  7. Explain the Junior Saint Code of Conduct & commit to the Smart Device Policy.
  8. Renew the following Parent's Guides:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
    • Taking Charge of Technology Resource.

Spiritual Trail

  1. Living The Gospel
    • Explain what a testimony is and write down your testimony of the gospel in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Share your testimony at least twice with different friends, family members, or during church. Record your impressions in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Pick any six of the Christlike attributes and identify a scripture that relates to each one. Explain to your Troopmaster how you have demonstrated these attributes in your own life. Record your choices in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Create a study plan for reading the scriptures and keep record of it for 3 months in your Junior Saints Handbook.
  2. My Heritage & Family
    • Teach your favorite scripture story to your family. Act it out or draw pictures to help you teach.

Social Trail

  1. Countryman
    • Demonstrate respect for laws, leaders, and those in positions of authority.
    • Meet with someone who holds an elected position in your community (or one who previously held an elected position if one is not available). Prepare three questions related to their position and record in your Junior Saints Handbook what you discovered.
    • Explain the three levels of government: Local, State, Federal.
  2. Just Serve
    • Look for ways to help someone in your family, at school, or at church. Perform three acts of kindness for different people and record how it affected you and the other person in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Meet with a uniformed Fire Fighter, Law Enforcement, Military Member, or other civil servant. Prepare three questions and discover why they desire to serve their communities and how serving benefits their lives.
    • Actively participate in a service project.

Physical Trail

  1. First Aid
    • Recite & write down your emergency point of contact's full name, address, and phone number. Explain why it's important to know that & when you would need to share it.
    • With your parent, develop a household emergency response plan, practice it at home, and review the plan with your Troopmaster.
    • Explain what you should do if you encounter someone in need of first aid.
    • Demonstrate how to treat the following: cuts and scratches, burns and scalds, bites and stings of insects and animals, and nosebleed.
    • Demonstrate how to identify and help a choking victim.
    • Make a personal first-aid kit. Demonstrate the proper use of each item in your first-aid kit.
  2. Endurance
    • Complete the Endurance requirements as outlined in your Junior Saints Handbook.

Intellectual Trail

  1. Outdoorsman
    • Complete a 2-mile walk.
    • Earn or renew the Fire Safety Card.
    • Earn or renew the Edged Tools Card.

Elective Trail

  1. BB Gun Shooting
    • Physical core
  2. Archery
    • Physical core
  3. Sports
    • Physical core
  4. Fishing
    • Intellectual core
  5. Reading
    • Intellectual core
  6. Wood Carving
    • Intellectual core
  7. Swimming
    • Physical core
  8. Nature
    • Intellectual core
  9. Music
    • Intellectual core
  10. Master Builder
    • Intellectual core
  11. Wilderness Survival
    • Intellectual core
  12. Outdoor Cooking
    • Intellectual core
  13. Cycling
    • Physical core
  14. Running
    • Physical core
  15. Science
    • Intellectual core
  16. Theatre
    • Social core
  17. Penmanship
    • Intellectual core

Trained Cards

  1. Earn or renew Fire Safety Card.
    • Demonstrates safe fire-building, management, and extinguishing skills.
  2. Earn or renew Edged Tools Card.
    • Certifies safe handling and care of knives, axes, and other edged tools.

Advancement Summary

  1. Bronze: 8 badges.
    • All rank-specific requirements + 8 required badges.
  2. Silver: 10 badges.
    • Bronze + 2 additional elective badges.
  3. Gold: 12 badges.
    • Silver + 2 additional elective badges.

Must complete all rank-specific requirements and at least 2 badges in each Advancement Trail.

Pace Guidance: Advancement pace designed for 1 merit badge earned per month to reach Gold for a youth joining on their 9th birthday.

Age Guidance: Join group at the corresponding age.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given if/when the youth is Baptised during their time in the program.

Badges along the way
Swimming
Sports
Archery
Falcon
Rank 4 · Junior Saints

Falcon

Ages 10–11 Catalog 2026.1

Aim true

The capstone of Junior Saints — lead the younger flock, fly clean, and ready yourself for Saints Global.

Rank Requirements

  1. National flag & Court of Honor procedures:
    • Review your national flag's history, folding the flag, raising and lowering the flag, and Court of Honor procedures.
    • Participate in a Flag Ceremony during both a Junior Saints Court of Honor and a Saints Global Court of Honor.
  2. Recite the Saints Oath, Testament, Saints Motto, & Slogan with your Troopmaster.
  3. Demonstrate the Saint Sign, Salute, and Saints Grip and explain when & why they would be used.
  4. Demonstrate the square knot, two half hitches, taut-line hitch, and figure 8 knots. Explain when they would be used.
  5. Covenant Path & deacon roles:
    • Explain the Covenant Path and identify key milestones on the path.
    • Explain the roles of a Deacon.
  6. Complete four DPAR Goals, one for each development core and explain to your Troopmaster how you have grown personally since completing them.
  7. Explain the Junior Saint Code of Conduct & commit to the Smart Device Policy.
  8. Renew the following Parent's Guides:
    • Parent's Guide: Child Abuse.
    • Parent's Guide: Smart Device & Internet Safety.
    • Taking Charge of Technology Resource.

Spiritual Trail

  1. Living The Gospel
    • Explain what a testimony is and write down your testimony of the gospel in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Share your testimony at least three times with different friends, family members, or during church. Record your impressions in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Use all nine Christlike attributes and identify a scripture that relates to each one. Explain to your Troopmaster how you have demonstrated these attributes in your own life. Record your choices in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Create a study plan for reading the scriptures and keep record of it for 6 months in your Junior Saints Handbook.
  2. My Heritage & Family
    • Prepare and teach a gospel lesson to your family on the mission and purpose of Jesus Christ. Explain why He is described as the Light of the World. Explain how you can also be a Lightbearer in your life.

Social Trail

  1. Countryman
    • Demonstrate respect for laws, leaders, and those in positions of authority.
    • Attend a local government meeting. Observe the civil process and topics discussed. Record in your Junior Saints Handbook what you discovered. (All effort should be given to attend a meeting in person; a video recording may be viewed if in-person is not attainable.)
    • Learn the terms democracy and republic; be able to explain what they mean and the difference between them.
    • Explain the ways that religious organizations contribute to their communities.
  2. Just Serve
    • Look for ways to help someone in your family, at school, or at church. Perform three acts of kindness for different people and record how it affected you and the other person in your Junior Saints Handbook.
    • Identify a service project need within your community.
    • Plan and participate in the service project for a minimum of three hours, or multiple service projects for a total of three hours. Record the service project details in your Junior Saints Handbook.

Physical Trail

  1. First Aid
    • Recite & write down your emergency point of contact's full name, address, and phone number. Explain why it's important to know that & when you would need to share it.
    • With your parent, develop a household emergency response plan, practice it at home, and review the plan with your Troopmaster.
    • Explain what you should do if you encounter someone in need of first aid.
    • Demonstrate how to treat the following: cuts and scratches, burns and scalds, bites and stings of insects and animals, and nosebleed.
    • Demonstrate how to identify and help a choking victim.
    • Demonstrate what to do for hurry cases of first aid: serious bleeding, heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, stopped breathing, stroke, and poisoning.
    • Demonstrate how to identify and help someone in shock.
    • Make a personal first-aid kit. Demonstrate the proper use of each item in your first-aid kit.
  2. Endurance
    • Complete the Endurance requirements as outlined in your Junior Saints Handbook.

Intellectual Trail

  1. Outdoorsman
    • Complete a 3-mile walk.
    • Earn or renew the Fire Safety Card.
    • Earn or renew the Edged Tools Card.

Elective Trail

  1. BB Gun Shooting
    • Physical core
  2. Archery
    • Physical core
  3. Sports
    • Physical core
  4. Fishing
    • Intellectual core
  5. Reading
    • Intellectual core
  6. Wood Carving
    • Intellectual core
  7. Swimming
    • Physical core
  8. Nature
    • Intellectual core
  9. Music
    • Intellectual core
  10. Master Builder
    • Intellectual core
  11. Wilderness Survival
    • Intellectual core
  12. Outdoor Cooking
    • Intellectual core
  13. Cycling
    • Physical core
  14. Running
    • Physical core
  15. Science
    • Intellectual core
  16. Theatre
    • Social core
  17. Penmanship
    • Intellectual core

Trained Cards

  1. Earn or renew Fire Safety Card.
    • Demonstrates safe fire-building, management, and extinguishing skills.
  2. Earn or renew Edged Tools Card.
    • Certifies safe handling and care of knives, axes, and other edged tools.

Advancement Summary

  1. Bronze: 8 badges.
    • All rank-specific requirements + 8 required badges.
  2. Silver: 10 badges.
    • Bronze + 2 additional elective badges.
  3. Gold: 12 badges.
    • Silver + 2 additional elective badges.

Must complete all rank-specific requirements and at least 2 badges in each Advancement Trail.

Pace Guidance: Advancement pace designed for 1 merit badge earned per month to reach Gold for a youth joining on their 10th birthday.

Age Guidance: Join group at the corresponding age.

Recognition: A Recognition award is given if/when the youth is Baptised during their time in the program.

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