Basic Staff Training - Pathfinder history _Pastors Group 16022024.pdf

Date: 16 FEBRUARY 2024
Facilitator: MG G.K Nono Mmolotsa (PhD)
PASTORS GROUP
Basic Staff Training
Pathfinder and Adventurer Club
Ministries history, purpose, and
relationship to the Church

Outline
❖ History - Early and Formative Years
❖ Early Leaders and Camps
❖ Pathfinder Honors
❖ Philosophy of the Pathfinder Ministry
❖ Purpose of the Pathfinder Ministry
❖ Advantages in having Pathfinder Ministry
❖ Goals of the Pathfinder Ministry
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Pastors Group Facilitator: MG G.K.N Mmolotsa

Topic one
History of Pathfinder
Ministry

History - Early and Formative Years
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+ 1852 – James White was the first editor of the Youth
Instructor
+ 1879 - Luther Warren (14 years) and Harry Fenner (17
years), teenagers at the time, began the first young
people society
+ 1890 – the church began the first publication of the ‘Our
Little Friend’
- Editor W.N Glenn
- Magazine focused on ages 6 -12 years
- Later magazine was split
- Junior Guide magazine for ages 10 – 14 years
- Friend magazine – 4 -9 years
+ 1957 Primary Treasurer magazine for ages 6 – 10 years,
Friend for ages 0 -5 years

+ Weekly publications filled
with inspiring content.
+ Helps young minds to
develop deep connection
with Jesus and the Church
body.
+ Makes children open and
receptive.
+ During CVID-19 era, the
magazines could be
downloaded for free
3/1/20XX 5
Did you know that you can also submit a story
(manuscript) for publishing in these magazines?

3/1/20XX 6
+ Several churches and schools successfully experimented with Junior
Societies
+ 1907 Missionary Volunteer Societies organized
+ 1907 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, official church action was taken.
- a “Standard of Attainment” manual was developed, which was the forerunner of the
“Progressive Classes.”
+ 1907 – Annual Pathfinder Sabbath (originally called Young People’s
day), later changed to MV day
+ 1908 Junior Reading Course 07 March 1909 – First Missionary
Volunteer Day
+ 1917 – Introduction of the Junior Bible Year (children could read 365
key chapters of the Bible during the curse of the year)
+ October 1917 – Primary Reading Course introduced (>10 years)
+ 1918 – Manual on Junior methods (now we have Pathfinder
Administrative Manual)

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History - Early and
Formative Years
+ 1919 – A.W Spaulding organized a small
group of boys into a little club – “Mission
Scouts.”
- Went off camping in many occasions
- Were involved in “good deeds” in their
community.
- They put a pledge and law to live by.
- When Spaulding moved, the club died,
but the Pledge and Law caught on and
became the Pledge and Law of JMV (with
slight modifications)
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+ 1920 - Harriet Holt joined the General Conference as a
Junior Youth specialist.
+ 1922 – (i) JMV (AJY) Progressive Classes introduced –
Friend, Companion and Comrade (now Guide)
(ii) A.W Spalding and Harriet Holt advocate
basic idea of Pathfinder Clubs
+ 1926 – First Junior Camp held in USA (Town Line Lake,
Michigan)
+ 1927 – Master Comrade (now Master Guide) officially
approved
+ 1928 – The first sixteen vocational honors introduced by C.
Lester Bond

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+ 1928 – The first sixteen vocational honors
introduced by C. Lester Bond
Can you
name
them all?

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+ 1929 (Early years of 1928) – “Pathfinder” name first used at a summer camp
in South California
- A. W Spaulding told a story of adventures of one of Western Explorers
known as Mountain Men, named John Fremont. He carried the name
“Pathfinder”.
- The name caught on
- The camp was called the “Pathfinder Camp”
- This later became the name of the local church Junior Club directed by
John McKim.
- John McKim’s church was Anaheim of the Southeastern California
Conference.
- He had been a scoutmaster and felt that children in his church needed
something similar.
- February 16th issue of Review for 1928, Elder M.E Kern wrote an article
outlining the reasons why Adventist Youth should not join the Scouts
organisation

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+ 1930 – Pre-JMV/AJY (Adventurer) classes added (Busy
Bee and Helping hand)
+ 1931 – First Master Comrade Investiture
+ 1932 – First JMV Pathfinder Camp
+ 1938 – Master Comrade Manual published

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+ 1946
(i) First Conference sponsored
Pathfinder Club (Riverside,
California).
(ii) Pathfinder Club emblem (logo)
designed by John H. Hancock
+ 1948 - Helen Hobbs makes the
Pathfinder flag
+ 1949 – Henry Bergh wrote
Pathfinder song

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+ 1950 – General Conferences authorizes JMV Pathfinder
clubs for world field Pathfinder, Staff Training Course
and How to Start a pathfinder Club booklet Explorer
class added
+ 23 September 1951- First Pathfinder Fair, Dinuba,
California
+ 1951 - Master Comrade changed to Master Guide
+ 1952 Pathfinder song Copyrighted

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+ 7 – 9 May 1954 – First Pathfinder Camporee, Idyllwild, California
+ 1957 - JMV Pathfinder day added to the church calendar
+ 1962 – MV Pathfinder Field Guide, Pathfinder Drill Manual Published
+ 1963 - John Hancock elected World Pathfinder Director
+ 1965 - JMV Handbook combined with Master Guide Manual to be MV
Handbook
+ 1966 – Pioneer Class added (later changed to Ranger)
+ 1970 Pioneer Class name changed Ranger
+ 1974 Pathfinder Staff Manual revised and expanded
+ 1979 MV changed to AY, JMV to AJY, Pre-AJY to Adventurers (4years)
+ 1982 (i) New Pathfinder World replaces MV World
(ii) Voyager Class added
Pastors Group

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+ 1989 - Adoption of Adventurer Ministry (independent from PF)
+ 1993 – restructuring results in the Office of Pathfinder Ministries
+ 1996 – Basic Staff Training, Pathfinder Leadership Award (PLA)
and Pathfinder Instructor Award (PIA) curriculum developed
+ 2001 AY Honor Handbook adds 17 new Honors as well as several
international Honors
+ 2020 - Approval of in World Adventurer Day
+ 21 May 2021 – First World Adventurer Day
+ February 2022 – Launch of new Curricula
- Which ones were launched?
- Which one replaced PLA/PIA?

❖ There are almost 500 honors currently,
with new ones added once in a while.
❖ Some of these honors are at advanced
level
❖ Each of the honors represents learning
in a new area of interest for the
Pathfinders, which could be a hobby, a
skill or a craft or simply understanding
and knowledge in a subject
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Types of Honors

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Types of Honors

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Types of Honors

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Types of Honors

Topic two
Philosophy of Pathfinder Ministry

Philosophy
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❖ The training and saving of our children and youth is one of the
most important missions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
- Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is
old, he will never depart from it (Proverbs 22:6)
❖ Children’s brains are formed by the time they reach 12 years.
❖ It is crucial for them to be taught good habits in the early years

Philosophy
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“The highest of all sciences is the science of soul saving. The
greatest work to which human beings can aspire, is the work of
winning men from sin to holiness. For accomplishment of this
work, a broad foundation must be laid. A comprehensive
education is needed.” (Ministry of Healing, 398)

Topic three
Purpose of Pathfinder Ministry

Purpose
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❖ Fulfil the message in Malachi 4:6 in which the “Hearts of
parents are turned towards their children, and the hearts of
the children are turned towards their parents.”
❖ Provides a key educational programme of a church, for it
provides the opportunity to take children out of the
classroom setting and into outdoor adventure, and
accomplish the goals that follows:

Purpose
Provides a key educational programme of a church, for it provides the opportunity to take children
out of the classroom setting and into outdoor adventure, and accomplish the goals that follows:
+ Helps Pathfinders to understand that the church loves, cares and appreciates them and needs
them in its total programme.
+ Show Pathfinders what God has for their lives
+ Train Pathfinders for missionary service
+ Work for the salvation of each individual Pathfinder
+ Develop the Pathfinder’s appreciation for nature and concern for the environment.
+ Teach Pathfinders skills and hobbies that will make their life meaningful and will occupy their
time profitably.
+ Helps keeps Pathfinders physically fit
+ Give opportunities for the development of leadership
+ Develop a balanced physical, mental, social and spiritual life
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Goals
+ Lead youth to Christ abd hold them loyal to Him and the church.
+ Demonstrate the attractiveness of Christian ideals
+ Guide our boys and girls into active missionary service and community service.
+ Develop good character and citizenship as well as physical fitness.
+ Teach a variety of skills and recreational pursuits.
+ Guide them in their physical, mental and spiritual growth (Luke 2:52)
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Summary
No matter how hard one tries, the story
gets abbreviated, lost in time, less and
precise.
While it is easy to reduce the story to a
few names and dates, we should not
forget that many people who loved God
put their life’s efforts into Pathfinder
cache.
They were the ropes and pulleys that
have held this organization together.
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Adventurer Club Ministries history,
purpose, and relationship to the
Church
Prepare the PPT Slides that you will use for
training MITs at the next BST.
Maximum number of slides – 20
All Slides must be numbered
Write Bullet points only (Use a few words in a
Slide).
Assignment due date: 22 February 2024
Send by email not WhatsApp
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Thank you MG G.K Nono Mmolotsa
gkmmolotsa@gmail.com
Tel: 71629695
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