AY Honors/Junior Witness/Answer Key

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, register at the NAD Pathfinder Forum and ask there, being sure to indicate where you are from. People on the forum will be very happy to put you in contact 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
• Nursing home visitation
• Christmas caroling
• Work-a-thon (painting, cleaning, yard work, etc for the disabled or elderly)
• Mission trip
• Disaster relief
• Literature distribution
• Reading to younger children
• Tutoring

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

4. Know from memory at least two key texts for each of the following Bible teachings:

All the verse below are from the New International Version (NIV).

a. Second coming of Christ

1 Thess 4:16,17

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Matt 24:30,31

"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Rev 1:7

Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.

b. Seventh-day Sabbath

Exodus 20:8-11

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Genesis 2:2,3

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Mark 1:21

They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

c. State of the dead

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.

John 11:11-15

After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better." Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."