Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder

Association of Christian Scouts and Guides

Location

Kassel

Country

Germany

Founded

1973

Membership

47,000

Bundesvorsitzender

Jule Lumma, Thomas Kramer, Gero Beisel

Website
http://www.vcp.de

The Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (roughly: Association of Christian Guides and Scouts, VCP) is a German Protestant coed Scouting and Guiding association. According to the VCP, the organization has about 47,000 members.

It is a member of the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände (Federation of German Scouting Associations, RdP), which in turn is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), and a member of the Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände (Federation of German Guiding Associations, RDP), which in turn is a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).

The association was formed in 1973 through the merger of three Protestant associations:

In 1976, some traditional Scouting groups left and formed a separate association, using the former name Christliche Pfadfinderschaft Deutschlands again.

Two years later, the VCP held his first national jamboree. Since then, roughly every four years a national jamboree has taken place:

In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first groups of Protestant Scouts and Guides were formed in the still existent German Democratic Republic. Today, the VCP is present in all Federal States of Germany.

The association is divided in three age-groups:

There is also a special branch for adults in Scouting, the Erwachsenenarbeit, which aims at all members older than 18 years including leaders and non-leaders.

Like most German Scout associations, the VCP emphasizes on youth leadership. Most patrol leaders start at 16 and most leaders up to district level are younger than 25.

The VCP has no common Scout Promise. Its constitution proposes the following text, but other wordings are possible:

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