Pathfinders are a worldwide organization of young people sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, though young people of any religious persuasion or none at all, are welcome and encouraged to join the organization.
Pathfinders offer a wide range of activities including, but not limited to:
- Camping & camping/survival skills
- grade appropriate leadership training
- Activities promoting community pride & involvement through outreach activities such as helping in downtown soup kitchens, collecting food for the disadvantaged, cleaning & maintaining city and county parks, visiting and encouraging the elderly, and more
- Interactive training in a variety of recreational, artistic, nature, conservation, vocational, and outreach areas, with awards (honors) given for successful completion of the interactive training modules
- Personal care and encouragement by a caring staff member. While many school classrooms have 10-30 students per teacher, Pathfinders offers at least a 1 staff member to every 5 Pathfinder ratio.
The Pathfinder Pledge & Law is an important part of Pathfinders. Thousands of Pathfinders each year learn and choose to abide by the requirements of the Pathfinder Pledge and Law for the sole purpose of growing closer to their fellow men and women, and to their Creator.
Aim:
The Advent Message to all the world in this generation
Motto:
The love of Christ constrains us all
Pathfinder Pledge:
By the grace of God, I will be pure, and kind, and true. I will keep the Pathfinder Law. I will be a servant of God and a friend to man.
Pathfinder Law:
The Law is for me to:
Keep the morning watch, Do my honest part,
Care for my body, Keep a level eye,
Be courteous and obedient, Walk softly in the sanctuary,
Keep a song in my heart, Go on God's errand.
