Requirements
- 1.
Be in at least the eighth grade.
- 2.
Go on a visit with your pastor to a Bible study, a hospital visit, and a visit to a church member.
- 3.
Arrange with your pastor to attend a church board meeting and a church business meeting. Make a written report of your visits to both meetings.
- 4.
List the steps in church organization from the member to the General Conference and know their relationship to each other.
- 5.
Find out what your church spends money on and what percentage of the budget goes to what expenses.
- 6.
Write a report of an interview with your pastor in which you asked him the following questions:
- a.
What is your daily routine like?
- b.
What is your weekly routine like?
- c.
What education is required to become a minister?
- d.
What education outside of theology would complement a minister?
- e.
From what source is the pastor paid?
- f.
What is the most rewarding part of your ministry?
- g.
What is the hardest part of your ministry?
- h.
What are beneficial vocations for a pastor's wife to have?
- i.
How did you know that God called you to the ministry?
- j.
How would I know if God were calling me to the ministry?
- k.
How do you do soul winning?
- l.
How does evangelism enter into your soul winning?
- m.
What advice would you give to someone who was thinking about becoming a minister?
- a.
- 7.
Do two of the following:
- a.
Participate in the presentation of a youth evangelistic series.
- b.
Give two Bible studies.
- c.
Make four hospital visits, presenting a devotional thought and prayer at each one.
- d.
Give a sermon of at least 20 minutes in length.
- e.
Give two evening and two morning devotionals for a camp out.
- f.
Give devotional worships for five days at a school.
- g.
Earn the Pathfinder Evangelism Award. For your choice of the above, a thorough preparation is needed. Where applicable, outlines or memorized material should be used. A reading of the presentation is not permitted.
- a.
- 8.
Through Bible and the writings of Ellen G. White study and learn how Jesus treated crowds of people in ministering to them.
- 9.
Show that you have a personal daily devotional life for at least six months.
About this honor
- Category
- Vocational
- Skill level
- 2
- Division
- General Conference
- Edition
- 2001
- Original honor
- 1938
Requirements are published by AdventSource for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Advent Clubs reproduces them here for club leaders and links the original document above.