About Troop 12

Meeting Info

Troop 12 meets at First Presbyterian Church of Allentown on Monday nights from 7 PM to 8:30 PM. We meet all year round and deliver a program actively engaged with the great outdoors. We live in a wonderful part of the country with many opportunities to be engaged in activities in the community and the outdoors. We camp or hike at least once each month and spend one week during the summer at a Boy Scout camp.

Campouts

Northern Tier High Adventure 2025

Cooking

Summer Camp 2025

Current Troop 12 Stats

We currently have 33 scouts in the troop and have a trained youth leadership team and a trained adult staff. Troop 12 has earned the Boy Scout National Quality Unit Award for the last 15 years.

The Boy Scout program is designed to build desirable qualities of character, to train in the responsibilities of citizenship, and to develop personal fitness. Boy Scouting recognizes the importance of religious faith and duty. It is nonsectarian and leaves it to the scout, his family, and religious leaders to give instruction. Asbury and Troop 12 leaders will offer the “God and Life” program later this year for scouts who are in grades 9-12.

You may contact our scoutmaster Brian Harman for more information.

Troop 12 is sponsored by First Presbyterian Church of Allentown. We appreciate the opportunity to use the FIrst Presbyterian Church facilities and perform service projects for the church.

If you are between the ages of 11 to 18 and adventure, learning, challenge, and responsibility interest you, contact someone from our troop or come visit us on a Monday night.

Troop 12 Origins

Troop 12 is currently located at First Presbyterian Church of Allentown and moved here in 2021. Troop 12 was a part of Asbury United Methodist Church for over 60 years beginning in downtown Allentown and continuing today in South Whitehall Township. Troop 12 was chartered in 1927 by the American Legion.

Past Troop Outings

Camping/Hiking

Annapolis Naval Academy
Appalachian Trail (to many times to count each one)
Baltimore’s inner harbor, including overnights onboard the USS Torsk WW-II submarine, USS Constellation Frigate and the Coast Guard Cutter Taney
Fort Indiantown Gap
Gettysburg, Valley Forge and Saratoga Battlefields
New York City
North Valley District Snow Bound camporee
North Valley District Fall camporee
Pines Barron’s State Park in New Jersey
Sandy Hook beach & batteries (allowing for ample time to enjoy the sand and surf)
Summer Camp at Camp Minsi, Camp Trexler, Ockanickon and Hidden Valley
Washington DC
West Point Military Academy
Winter camped at Netimus / Valley Froge / Camp Minsi – rewarding indoor campout with outdoor snow activities

High Adventure

Canoe Camping - on the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers
Philmont - spent 11 days hiking over 90 miles reaching elevations of 11-12,000 feet in the Sangrea Mountains at the Philmont Boy Scout high adventure ranch in New Mexico - 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2017
Sea Base- Spent a week living a working on a boat in the Flordia keys and snorkled and fished 2023
Northern Tier- The ultimate back country experience. Spent 8 days canoing and doing protage through the boundary waters in Northern Minnesota and into Canada- 2025
White Mountains - hiked parts of the Presidential range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire

Engineering & Building

Cardboard Boat Regatta - built and raced full size cardboard boats on Lake Stillwater and Lake Minsi
Punkin Chunkin - constructed full sized catapults, roman war machines and trebuchets launching pumpkins over 300 feet

Other

Cook and Serve Cobbler at the South Whitehall Tree Lighting event
Served as powder monkeys onboard a Frigate
Skied, snowboarded and snow tubed as a troop
Visited the local Coke bottling plant
Lehigh District First Aid meets
Rode state of the art people movers (segways)
Camped and attended Council 100 year anniversary camporee
Held numerous cooking events fashioned after Iron Chef America and Chopped – one being a special Cast Iron Chef Troop 12 event outdoors in January

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