{"id":326960,"date":"2015-01-08T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/argentina-a-special-encounter-between-gen-3-and-scouts\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:59:06","slug":"argentina-a-special-encounter-between-gen-3-and-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/argentina-a-special-encounter-between-gen-3-and-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina. A Special Encounter Between Gen 3 and Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20150107-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-116802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20150107-03.jpg\" alt=\"20150107-03\" width=\"361\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\u201c<strong>I discovered that I can live the Scout Promise at every moment.<\/strong>\u201d \u201cIt was very beautiful to spend time together and realize that we\u2019re living for the same goal.\u201d \u201cThanks to everyone who came to this truly unique afternoon.\u201d \u201cThanks to everyone, a super-ingenious project, filled with smiles and teachings! We have to continue this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are but a few on-the-spot impressions given by youngsters<\/strong> as the sun began to set on one of the public squares in the Argentine city of Bahia Blanca where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agesci.it\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scouts <\/a>and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/scelte-e-impegno\/gen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Gen 3<\/a> (teenagers of the Focolare Movement) had gathered for an afternoon of getting to know one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20150107-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-116801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20150107-02.jpg\" alt=\"20150107-02\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/strong>But perhaps what best describes the joyful event was a message posted on the social network by Clarita, a teenager who is both a Scout and a Gen 3. With her brother, Juanfra, and her mother, Rose, she was one of the main promoters of the event. Clarita writes:<strong> \u201cFinally, the dream happened!<\/strong> We put together two movements who use different methods to accomplish the same goal: to be \u201calways ready\u201d to \u2018do to others as we would have them do to us.\u2019 Happy, that\u2019s the best word to describe how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The afternoon was an occasion for both Scouts and Gen 3 to learn<\/strong>, respect, be open and listen to others, but it was also an afternoon of many games, activities and laughter. Clarita continues: \u201cThank you to everyone who attended. I saw how the Gen 3 and the Scouts mix together so easily. Now my fellow Scouts know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/2011\/09\/21\/la-regola-doro\/\">the Golden Rule<\/a>, and will have another arrow in their bow to practice the Scout Law in their daily lives.\u201d And the Gen 3 know the Scout\u2019s motto: Be prepared, which will encourage their serving spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-116800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20150107-01.jpg\" alt=\"20150107-01\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/>This afternoon<\/strong> together was also an opportunity for the leaders of both movements. The Scout leaders responded to the proposal of doing something together, saying: <strong>\u201cWe put the adventure and the service, and you put<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/spiritualita-dellunita\/\"> the spirituality and the unity<\/a>.\u201d But, as time went by \u201cus\u201d and \u201cyou\u201d gradually faded away, leaving all the space for \u201cUs\u201d where everyone felt actively involved in a single effort.<\/p>\n<p>As a memento of the event everyone received a bookmark. On one side was written: Do to others as you would have them do to you\u201d and, on the other side, \u201cLeave the world better than you found it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That afternoon will not remain an isolated event. Now the experience will continue through the creation of a \u201csolidarity business\u201d at the service of the community. The united world makes way when we are walking together!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bahia Blanca, in south Argentina, young people of the Focolare and Scouts get to know one another. Adventure and service, spirituality and unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}