The word Elangomat is the Lenni Lenape word-meaning friend. As an Elangomat you’ll be responsible for a “crew” of 8-10 candidates whom you’ll work with during their Ordeal. You will spend most of the day with your crew, setting an example of brotherhood, cheerfulness, and service, which the candidates learn through you. A brief training course given by the Elangomat Chairman, will teach you all you’ll need to know as an Elangomat. Because of the influence you’ll have in motivating the quality of your new brothers, your service as an Elangomat is one of the most important and rewarding things you can do in the lodge.
You also get a free shirt when you serve as an elangomat during an ordeal weekend.
You also get a free shirt when you serve as an elangomat during an ordeal weekend.
Elangomat Flap
Elangomat Award
The Honor Elangomat Award is intended to honor those Elangomats who have served well as an Elangomat and have shown extraordinary service as an Elangomat. This is in no way a motivation for better leaders but serves as a small token of Tsali Lodge’s gratitude towards our Elangomats. Those who earn the award will also receive a special lodge flap patch. To be eligible for this award the following standards must be met:
1. Be a Brotherhood Member.
2. Serve as an Elangomat at an Ordeal and then at a fellowship (Helping with Brotherhood Conversion.) This includes working with your crew and educating them about the Order and the Lodge. This also means working with the crew as a whole during Ordeal weekend.
3. Remind your crew that the Ordeal was completed and they will now enjoy the benefits of membership (food, bed, fellowship.)
4. Make regular contact with your crew (remembering birthdays, achieving Eagle, etc.) over the 6 months until your crew is eligible for Brotherhood urging them to return for their Brotherhood.
5. 30% of your crew needs to become Brotherhood (within 1 year.)
6. Conduct yourself as mandated by the Scout Oath and Law.
7. Make a hard copy of your crew’s members and any contact you make with them.
Frequently Asked Questions of the
Elangomat Program
Q: Why is the Elangomat job important?
A: The Elangomat is critical in the Order of the Arrow because it is essential to the membership of new members that their Induction is meaningful and helpful. If a Candidate gets the wrong impression of the Order or does not understand what is happening during the process, he may soon abandon the lodge. Elangomat is Lenni Lennape for friend and a friend is just what new members need. They need guidance to see the path to Brotherhood and why it is important.
Q: What does an Elangomat do at a Spring/Summer Ordeal?
A: The Elangomat supervises the candidates at all times during the Ordeal experience. He watches that candidates are safe, healthy, and adhering to the tests of the Ordeal. He also is the logical leader. He gets his group to where they need to be on time with the appropriate attire and equipment. Lastly, he supports the candidates and encourages them in their time of testing.
Q: Spring/Summer Ordeal is over now what?
A: An Elangomat’s job is not over right after the candidates finish their Ordeal. The Lodge would like to try something different for a change. You should write down the candidates name and number, so you can contact them before a chapter meeting/event to encourage them to come to the meeting, and stick with them until they earned brotherhood.
Q: How often should I contact Candidates?
A: At least once a month with information about Chapter and Lodge Events.
Q: What drives me to keep communication with those Candidates for so long?
A: As an Elangomat, you have a responsibility to your crew to give them the best chance they can have at becoming successful in the Order of the Arrow which can affect the rest of their lives. As a representative of your chapter and lodge, candidates base their views of the Order on their experience with you. It is your duty to show them how great our brotherhood can be so they can choose to go on and not be shunned away.
Q: Why do I have a Co-Elangomat?
A: Two Elangomats are paired together so that they may assist each other and make sure no crew gets one Elangomat who fails on the job.
Q: Who do I talk to if I have questions or want to sign up to be an Elangomat?
A: The Elangomat Chairman is head of the Elangomat Committee; He is in charge of recruiting and training of Elangomats as well as the supervision of Elangomats during the Ordeal Weekends. You should contact him if you have any question or if you are interested in being an Elangomat at the next Ordeal.
The Honor Elangomat Award is intended to honor those Elangomats who have served well as an Elangomat and have shown extraordinary service as an Elangomat. This is in no way a motivation for better leaders but serves as a small token of Tsali Lodge’s gratitude towards our Elangomats. Those who earn the award will also receive a special lodge flap patch. To be eligible for this award the following standards must be met:
1. Be a Brotherhood Member.
2. Serve as an Elangomat at an Ordeal and then at a fellowship (Helping with Brotherhood Conversion.) This includes working with your crew and educating them about the Order and the Lodge. This also means working with the crew as a whole during Ordeal weekend.
3. Remind your crew that the Ordeal was completed and they will now enjoy the benefits of membership (food, bed, fellowship.)
4. Make regular contact with your crew (remembering birthdays, achieving Eagle, etc.) over the 6 months until your crew is eligible for Brotherhood urging them to return for their Brotherhood.
5. 30% of your crew needs to become Brotherhood (within 1 year.)
6. Conduct yourself as mandated by the Scout Oath and Law.
7. Make a hard copy of your crew’s members and any contact you make with them.
Frequently Asked Questions of the
Elangomat Program
Q: Why is the Elangomat job important?
A: The Elangomat is critical in the Order of the Arrow because it is essential to the membership of new members that their Induction is meaningful and helpful. If a Candidate gets the wrong impression of the Order or does not understand what is happening during the process, he may soon abandon the lodge. Elangomat is Lenni Lennape for friend and a friend is just what new members need. They need guidance to see the path to Brotherhood and why it is important.
Q: What does an Elangomat do at a Spring/Summer Ordeal?
A: The Elangomat supervises the candidates at all times during the Ordeal experience. He watches that candidates are safe, healthy, and adhering to the tests of the Ordeal. He also is the logical leader. He gets his group to where they need to be on time with the appropriate attire and equipment. Lastly, he supports the candidates and encourages them in their time of testing.
Q: Spring/Summer Ordeal is over now what?
A: An Elangomat’s job is not over right after the candidates finish their Ordeal. The Lodge would like to try something different for a change. You should write down the candidates name and number, so you can contact them before a chapter meeting/event to encourage them to come to the meeting, and stick with them until they earned brotherhood.
Q: How often should I contact Candidates?
A: At least once a month with information about Chapter and Lodge Events.
Q: What drives me to keep communication with those Candidates for so long?
A: As an Elangomat, you have a responsibility to your crew to give them the best chance they can have at becoming successful in the Order of the Arrow which can affect the rest of their lives. As a representative of your chapter and lodge, candidates base their views of the Order on their experience with you. It is your duty to show them how great our brotherhood can be so they can choose to go on and not be shunned away.
Q: Why do I have a Co-Elangomat?
A: Two Elangomats are paired together so that they may assist each other and make sure no crew gets one Elangomat who fails on the job.
Q: Who do I talk to if I have questions or want to sign up to be an Elangomat?
A: The Elangomat Chairman is head of the Elangomat Committee; He is in charge of recruiting and training of Elangomats as well as the supervision of Elangomats during the Ordeal Weekends. You should contact him if you have any question or if you are interested in being an Elangomat at the next Ordeal.