AY Honors/Community Improvement/Answer Key
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1. Be in at least 10th grade
This honor requirement specifies an certain maturity.
2. Explain the process of urbanization and list some of the human needs that it creates, especially for the poor or underprivileged.
3. Read the chapters in Ministry of Healing by Ellen White entitled “Help for the Unemployed and Homeless” and “The Helpless Poor” and write a one-page summary of the key points.
4. Interview a pastor, a person who works with Adventist Community Services, ADRA Canada or an Adventist community development program, and ask how the church is meeting the needs of the poor in the community. Take notes during the interview.
5. Present a 10-minute report on how a youth group might help in the urban development problems the church is sponsoring. The report may be presented to a Pathfinder staff member, or it may be presented in a group setting.
6. Spend at least four hours in one of the following field trips as a participant:
a. Go out with a street ministry team that provides food, blankets or clothing to the homeless.
b. Go out with a health screening van.
c. Go out with a Christian work team that is repairing or building housing for the poor.
d. Work in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
e. Volunteer with an Adventist Community Services or ADRA Canada community development program.
7. Attend a worship service in a church made up of a different ethnic group than your own. List for your instructor the things you observed that were different than what you have grown up to be used to in your own culture. Then list the things that were similar to what you are used to.
The requirement does not state that this must be a Seventh-day Adventist Church (or one of your denomination). It might be more interesting to visit another type of church.
