Investiture Achievement/Guide/Serving Others

Standard Level

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IMPORTANT NOTE: In 2009, the ADRA honors were re-written to make them more accessible to Pathfinders. Here is a summary of some of the changes.

• Crisis Intervention was renamed Conflict Resolution and somewhat rewritten. Much of it is the same as before, but there are some major differences.

• Urban Development and Rural Development were combined and renamed Community Development.

Also, there is a General Conference-ADRA version of these Honors and a North American-Outreach version with some differences. Check both as one version may have more complete answers than the other.

These GUIDE and FRONTIER GUIDE Serving Others requirements point at three (possibly) obsolete honors. In an effort to follow the originally intended requirements we have shown the honor requirements as they existed when the Investiture Achievements were last updated. If you are going to go earn one of these honors to meet the FRONTIER GUIDE requirements, and you live in North America, it would be appropriate to substitute the updated and/or North American version for the listed honor options.

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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 Teaching Honor reads:

3. 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:

3. 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 of each Honor are listed here:

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)

Frontier Guide

Requirement 3

Complete Guide requirements

The requirements above this one on this page.

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 is designed for North American Pathfinders. The similar honor Conflict Resolution is the applicable honor for the rest of the world. Much of it is the same, but there are some major differences.
• Urban Development Honor is obsolete. Don't try to earn it as you may not be able to get an honor token.
• Teaching Honor
• Rural Development Honor (this honor is obsolete outside North America)

We believe that for Pathfinders outside North America the Community Development Honor would also be acceptable because it is a combination of the old Urban Development and Rural Development Honors. For Pathfinders inside North America the Community Improvement Honor would be acceptable as it replaced the old Urban Development Honor.