Investiture Achievement/Guide/Serving Others

Standard Level

Requirement 1

Fulfill one of the following honor requirements: #3 of Crisis Intervention, #3 of Teaching, #3 of Community Improvement, #3 of Rural Development.

For your reference, the requirements are listed here:

Requirement #3 of the Crisis Intervention reads: Describe for your instructor some of the human needs and crisis situations that teenagers in your community face today. Describe some of the crisis situations that families face. This may be done in a group discussion setting.

Requirement #3 of the Urban Development Honor reads: Interview the pastor or Adventist Community Services leader or Inner City Program coordinator in an inner-city Seventh-day Adventist Church and ask how the church is meeting the needs of the poor in the community. Take notes during the interview.

Requirement #3 of the Teaching Honor reads: Interview at least two teachers with the following questions:

a. Why did you choose to become a teacher? b. What part of teaching do you like the best? c. What part of teaching do you like the least? d. What do you do to get ready for a school year? e. What do you do to get ready for a school day? f. What teacher-related activities do you do after school is out each day? g. What are some qualities of a good teacher? h. What are the responsibilities and duties of a teacher?

Requirement #3 of the Rural Development Honor reads: Read what Ellen White has written about why we have the poor with us in Desire of Ages, Chapter 70, entitled “The Least of These My Brethren”. Summarize what you have learned from this chapter in 50 words or less.

You can read Chapter 70 online - follow the link.

For instruction and tips on meeting the requirements, please see the honors in the AY Honors linked.

Requirement 2

Fulfill one of the following honor requirements: #4 of Crisis Intervention, #s 5 or 6 of Teaching, #5 of Community Improvement, #5 of Rural Development.

For your reference, the requirements are listed here:

Requirement #4 of the Crisis Intervention Honor reads: Discuss your own motives for wanting to help your friends when they face personal or family crisis. What about strangers? This may be done in a group discussion setting.

Requirement #5 of the Urban Development Honor reads:

a. Go out with a street ministry team that provides food and/or blankets or coats to the homeless in an urban neighborhood

Collect the items at your church for about a month ahead of time. This can be done by placing a large box in the church foyer and having its purpose announced from the pulpit and in the church bulletin. Make a sign for the box as well, and decorate it (use gift wrap) to make an attractive, eye-catching display. This may also be done as a Sabbath School class project over the course of a quarter (three month period).

b. Go out with a health screening van that operates in an urban neighborhood.

You do not need to be a medical professional to help with a health-screening van. They often serve refreshments and need paperwork to be filled out. A youth group could assist with either of these aspects of the program. Health professionals will manage the medical aspects.

c. Go out with a Christian work team that is repairing or building urban housing for the poor.

Since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, the concept of "voluntourism" has become popular. "Voluntourists" are people who spend their vacations volunteering in an area needing help, such as one that has been struck by a natural disaster. Often, the volunteers will take a day off during their visit to tour nearby, unaffected areas.

Other options including signing up with Habitat for Humanity, or Maranatha Volunteers International.

d. Work in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter in an urban neighborhood.

You can find local soup kitchens and shelters in your phone book. Call them and ask how you can help. Work with the staff to find a need they have that your group is able to fill. Then do it!

e. Volunteer in an Adventist Community Services center located in an urban neighborhood.

Visit http://www.communityservices.org/ to find an ACS center near you. If there is not one near you, choose one of the other options in this requirement.

Requirements #5 and 6 of the Teaching Honor read (choose the appropriate requirement based on your age): 5. If you are 16 years old or younger, do the following for a minimum of 40 minutes per week for three weeks.

a. Assist a teacher in designing and preparing a bulletin board. b. Assist a teacher in preparing learning aids. c. With the supervision of a teacher, teach a child or class at least one concept.

6. If you are older than 16 years, do three of the following:

a. Teach an adult's or children's Sabbath School class for a minimum of six weeks. b. Teach in one day in each department of Vacation Bible School. c. Teach two Honors from the Honors Handbook. d. Assist in teaching requirements for one of the AY classes, culminating in investiture. e. Teach at least one year in an elementary or secondary school or in a college.

Requirement #5 of the Rural Development Honor reads: Participate in one of the following field trips or group projects:

a. Go on a mission trip to a disadvantaged rural area in another country or within your own nation. b. Raise funds and contribute to the contents of an ADRA-kids-box of your choice http://kids.adra.org. c. A 24-hour group fast and educational “lock-in” session with your youth group focused on understanding the needs of the poor in developing nations, and designed to raise funds for rural development.

For further instruction and tips on meeting the chosen requirements, please see the honors in the AY Honors linked above.

Frontier Guide

Requirement 3

Complete Guide requirements

Requirement 4

Complete one of the following honors, not previously earned: Crisis Intervention Teaching Community Improvement Rural Development

Follow the links for both the requirements and helps for completing each of these honors

• Crisis Intervention Honor
• Urban Development Honor
• Teaching Honor
• Rural Development Honor