AY Honors/Community Service/Answer Key

3. Explain to your instructor the following:

a. The name of the local Adventist organization that serves the poor and suffering in your town or metropolitan area. What kinds of services does it provide?

Older people in the church still often refer to Adventist Community Services (ACS) as Dorcas, but that name began to be phased out in the 1960s. There are still a few local churches that have a Dorcas Society and it is one of the several ministries under the official NAD Department called Adventist Community Services. Dorcas is named for a woman in the book of Acts who had spent her life serving the poor and was raised from the dead by the apostle Peter. There may also be a group known as Adventist Youth Emergency Service Corp in your area. This program sponsored by ACS and NADYM is for teens and young adults to participate in both ACS Disaster Response and local community services.

Local ACS normally provides clothing (new and used), food, and support to local individuals and families in need. They keep records of those assisted and offer referrals to other organizations when needs are outside of the common skill available at ACS.

b. What the letters ADRA stand for. Give a brief explanation of each word represented, and explain the difference between "development" and "relief"

Adventist: A self managing agency of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Development: This effort is focused on developing economic and social stability through resources and training.

and

Relief: The humanitain effort to relieve the suffering of those who cannot help themselves
Agency: ADRA is a Non-governmental agency on the U.N. NGO list operating in 120 nations world wide. [1]

4. (GC) Pack an ADRA box, using the proper procedures for contents, method of packing, and labeling of the box.

You contact your local ADRA office or Country Director for assistance with training in this and other services your local group can provide for ADRA projects.

4. (recommended for NAD) Pack an ACS DR box, using the proper procedures for content, method of packing, and numbering of the box, so that it is Distribution Center ready.

Note the North American Division has determined that they will not offer this Honor.

Contact your local conference ACS Disaster Response Coordinator, your Union Disaster Response Coordinator, or NAD ACS for further assistance and training in packing a Disaster Response box. As of August 2006 Pacific Union is very proactive in training and can offer material, contacts and assistance if you contact them.

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References

Who is My Neighbor? ADRA International, Silver Spring, Maryland (1995)
Ministries of Compassion by Monte Sahlin, et al., AdventSource, Lincoln, Nebraska (2nd edition, 1998)
Who Cares? by Linnea Torkelsen, AdventSource, Lincoln, Nebraska (1996)
We Are His Hands by Steve Caseand Fred Cornforth, AdventSource, Lincoln, Nebraska (1994)