Adventures with Christ Honor

Missionary & Community Activities

Requirements

  1. Choose 2 of the following items and carry them out consistently for at least 3 months:
    • Read Youth Inspiration daily
    • Regularly study the Sabbath School lesson
    • Follow the youth or junior Bible year reading plan
    • Develop a personal prayer journal, listing people and requests you are praying for and the answers to these prayers
    • Plan and hold at least 1 family worship per week

    Answer: Choose 2 and practice for 3 months: 1) read YOUTH INSPIRATION daily; 2) study the Sabbath School LESSON regularly; 3) follow the youth Bible Year READING PLAN; 4) a personal PRAYER JOURNAL with people and answers; 5) weekly FAMILY WORSHIP (1+). Keep a written record of the practice during the quarter. Present it to the instructor with a personal testimony of spiritual growth. — Consistency over 3 months creates a lasting spiritual habit — the neuroscientific principle of habit (66 days for automatization). Youth Inspiration is an Adventist daily devotional for young people. The Youth Bible Year covers the whole Bible in 1 year with adapted reading. A prayer journal documents answered prayers and strengthens faith. Family worship is a recovery of the classic Adventist practice of the daily 'family altar'.

  2. Choose 3 of the following items and carry them out:
    • Send 5 handmade cards with personal messages, poems or Bible verses to people who are in need of encouragement.
    • Visit 10 or more people and invite them to a special church or Pathfinder Club event.
    • Choose a friend and visit someone who has been absent from Sabbath School, Church or the Pathfinder Club. Take a card and a homemade gift. Share this experience with your family and pray for this person.
    • Keep your room clean and your bed made for at least 1 month; carry out at least 3 projects and show kindness toward your father and your mother that demonstrates to them how much you love them.
    • Make a list of e-mails of people known to you or your family and send them an electronic message inviting them to take part in a Bible course by correspondence, internet, or to take part in some event of your church.
    • Take a DVD of an Adventist sermon or message, if possible with a special song, to families neighboring your home.
    • Call the pastor, head elder, or deacon and offer to help them with whatever tasks they would like you to do - 2 hours per week - over a period of 3 weeks.
    • Bring food together with a biblical message or evangelistic book to a shelter for the poor for at least 3 weeks.
    • Using electronic means, such as email, text message (SMS), messages on social networks, etc., talk about Jesus to at least 10 people, receiving a reply from at least half of them. Share how important Jesus is to you.

    Answer: Choose 3 from 9 missionary options: handwritten cards, visits with an invitation, visiting absentees with a gift, keeping your room clean + projects with parents, missionary emails, distributing an Adventist DVD, helping the pastor 2h/week, taking food + a book to a shelter, electronic evangelism (10 people, 50% response). Practice and document the 3 chosen. Present them to the instructor with a report. — Each option develops a missionary facet — cards cultivate written empathy; visits train evangelistic courage; helping the pastor introduces church leadership; the shelter awakens social compassion. The 50% response number in the electronic item is a realistic goal for spiritual messages (versus ~10% in commercial sales). The Pathfinder Pledge and Law underpin the practical mission.

  3. Choose one of the following items and carry it out with your club, unit, or honor study group:
    • Look for gardens that need cleaning up and collect the litter in plastic bags. Leave several notes and copies of the book Steps to Christ or another pocket-sized book so that people can come into contact with God's message.
    • Plan a birthday party with games, gifts, and entertainment at a nursing home, for a patient.
    • Involve the whole family in a witnessing project, such as giving Bible studies, distributing copies of Steps to Christ in the community, adopting a needy family, or carrying out a work project for an elderly person who needs help at home.
    • Get involved in some tragedy that has occurred in your community, in order to help the people who need help.

    Answer: Choose 1 of the team options (club/unit): 1) clean up neglected gardens leaving notes + Steps to Christ; 2) a birthday party at a nursing home for a patient; 3) a family testimony project (Bible studies, distributing Steps to Christ, helping a needy family); 4) helping in a community tragedy. Document with photos and a report of the project carried out. Present it to the instructor with a testimony from those benefited. — Teamwork unites the spirit of unity with Christian service. 'Steps to Christ' (Ellen G. White, 1892) is a classic Adventist book for personalized evangelism. Nursing homes lack visits — a birthday party is a huge joy for lonely elderly people. In tragedies, ADRA (the Adventist Agency) has a rapid-response protocol. Documenting with photos and testimonies enriches the presentation to the instructor.