Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Outreach/Junior Witness

1. Be a member of a Pathfinder Club or AY Society.
If you do not know where to find a Pathfinder Club or Adventist Youth Society near you, talk to your pastor or the youth director at your conference. They will be able to put you in touch with a Pathfinder Club or AY society near you.

2. Participate in at least five Outreach activities during one year.
There are many opportunities during the Pathfinder year for outreach activities. Here is a list of ideas:
 * Collecting canned goods for the needy
 * Make sack lunches for a soup kitchen
 * Nursing home visitation
 * Work-a-thon (painting, cleaning, yard work, etc. for the disabled or elderly)
 * Mission trip
 * Disaster relief
 * Literature distribution
 * Reading to younger children
 * Tutoring
 * Vacation Bible School
 * Adventurers events

3. Enroll at least two people in a Bible correspondence course.
Traditionally, this has been done using the postal service, but now it is common to do it over the Internet. These sites have online Bible Studies that you can use. Why not invite your Internet friends to study with you?
 * It Is Written
 * Amazing Facts

f. Judgment
See also Revelation 6-8: , Romans 13, and Zephaniah 1-3

5. Give at least two Bible studies, using the open-Bible method, using visual aids, audio or electronic equipment.
Doing this is simpler than you might expect. One way to do this is by having a Friday night vespers for your Bible studies. In this way you are around others that you already know and in a familiar setting. Organize the evening as you would any other vespers service. Have song service, take up prayer requests, exchange dialog about the week (talk about plans for the weekend, the next week, etc.), have some snack food (if you want), and have a devotional thought (that's your Bible study).

It is always best to have taken some time to plan out what you are going to talk about ahead of time (Not just a few minutes, but at least a few hours ago. A day in advanced is best, because it gives you time to relax between preparation and delivery of your devotional thought.) You have your Bible study topic outlined. Begin with prayer. Not only will this calm you down, but it also invites God to be with everyone as they take a look at His Written Word. Then, dive in. Once you begin your Bible study, you will find that the hard part is over. Because you have gotten the group started and they aren't just sitting there waiting on you to open the study session, you will notice that the group may in fact move without your help. That doesn't mean that you can sit back and relax for the rest of the time. You need to monitor the flow of the study and put in comments that will "guide" the conversation where you want it to go. At the end of the Bible study, sum up everything that you (as a group) have discussed and point out a few key things that you wanted to get across to those in the group.

As for the visual aids, including audio or electronic equipment ... Those are tools that will assist you in presenting your thoughts to everyone else in the group. Don't be intimidated by them.

6. Make at least 50 one-to-one contacts using outreach literature, ADRA annual solicitation, health/church survey or other one-to-one contact programs.
This is a lot like can collecting. The idea is to go from door to door with outreach literature that you plan on distributing to people you meet. This can be done as an outreach project with an AY Club, Youth Group, or individually. Some clubs distribute literature as they are collecting cans.

Materials that you might use include:


 * Outreach literature (ex. the "Discover Series" by "Voice of Prophecy" or other evangelistic material that your church can supply).
 * ADRA annual solicitation: This activity is about asking for funds to be used to serve those in needs outside of the NAD (North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists) and "can be done by passing out ADRA's The Original Really Useful Gift Cataloge 2024 or another such type of pamphlet". In the past, the church called this activity Ingathering.
 * Health/church survey (In this activity, all you really do is take a survey out to at least 50 people [more is better for the purpose of the survey] of any lifestyle, income, etc. There are two ways to conduct the survey. The first is to ask to do the survey with the person at the present time; the other way to do this is to ask for each person to please fill out the survey and send it to the local church's address or you could return to collect the survey on a designated date.).
 * Other one-to-one contact program (This option is here for you to create your own variety of one-to-one contact program that fits your needs as a junior witness).