AY Honor Early Adventist Missionaries

Early Adventist Missionaries

Skill Level

2

Year

2025

Version

14.06.2025

Approval authority

North American Division

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Overview

Early missionaries faced extraordinary challenges and often saw great miracles and blessings from doing God's work in lands that were not their home. You will learn the stories of early missionaries and learn how you too can continue their sacred mission.

The Challenging Part

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

10. Complete any two of the following projects individually or as a group:

a. Read a short missionary biography and write a summary or give a devotional to your club.

b. Interview someone in your congregation, if such a person is available, who has served in a cross-cultural missionary context. Conduct an oral history or interview that is recorded and transcribed.

c. Interview a current Adventist missionary and ask how they were inspired by earlier Adventist missionaries.

d. Create a timeline or diorama featuring early Adventist missionaries and how Adventism was established in that country or region of the world. Display this at church or school.

e. Choose two Adventist missionaries from two different parts of the world. Compare and contrast these missionaries and how they went about doing their missionary work and their life contributions. Create a display or series of dioramas that shows your comparisons and contrasts in a visual/graphical way.

f. f. Locate the grave of an early Adventist missionary. If allowed, maintain and/or decorate the grave (making sure to follow all local laws). Post information about this missionary on a website that registers graves (such as findagrave.org). Share your experience intentionally with others.