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Are you looking for an experience that will shape your child’s character, help gain confidence, and build strong friendships? We are here to help expand their understanding of the needs around them, and deepen their appreciation of nature, while building their relationship with Jesus through adventure, learning, and service. Club activities vary from week to week, but often include trips to national parks, fire stations, museums, businesses, and other places of local or historical interest.

Club Ministries consists of two groups, Adventurers (under 10), or Pathfinders (10 plus). Adventurers and Pathfinders are worldwide organizations sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist church, and are open to all youth. There are nearly 2 million members in the program today.

Start an Outreach club

No Kids? No Problem! Outreach clubs are designed to reach kids in your community. Build relationships, make memories, bring them to conference wide events and celebrate as their lives change when they choose to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. This is frontline ministry!



If your church would like to learn more about starting an Outreach Club, email cherylw@uccsda.org and we’ll give you a call to set up a time for our Outreach Coordinators to come meet with your church leadership.

Churches are currently experiencing experiencing an influx of kids and families after starting outreach clubs - yours can too!



What is Adventurers?

The Adventurer curriculum is divided into six levels.



The Adventurer program was created to assist parents in their important responsibilities as a child’s primary teachers and evangelizers. The program aims to strengthen the parent/child relationship and to further the child’s development in spiritual, physical, mental, and social areas. Through the Adventurer Program, the church, home, and school can work together with the parent to develop a mature, happy child.


The Adventurer Club was created to give children an opportunity to belong to an organized peer group. 


How do you become an Adventurer?

To find an Adventurer club in or near your community, email larad@uccsda.org.


Upon joining, children are invited to participate in various activities which will improve their social skills. The Adventurer Club involves children in grades 1-4 and their parents. Parental involvement provides opportunities for parents to participate in the learning experience.


Resources

AdventSource.org

ClubMinistries.org

What is Pathfinders?

Pathfinders is 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 and camping/survival skills
  • Grade appropriate leadership training
  • Activities promoting community pride and involvement through outreach activities such as helping in downtown soup kitchens, collecting food for the disadvantaged, cleaning and maintaining city and county parks, visiting and encouraging the elderly, and MANY 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 6 Pathfinder ratio!


How do you become a Pathfinder?

Pathfinders is for those who are in the fifth (5th) grade or its equivalent through the eighth (8th) grade. Fifth and sixth graders are often referred to as "Junior" pathfinders, and seventh and eighth graders are often referred to as "Teen" Pathfinders.


The Teen Leadership Training (TLT) program works closely with the Pathfinder program and is for high school students (grades 9-12).


Resources

ActivityOutpost.com

AdventSource.org

ClubMinistries.org



    Pathfinder Bible Experience

    The Pathfinder Bible Experience is the Official North American Division Pathfinder Bible study program. Some affectionately call the program Bible Bowl.


    Each year, teams of six club members study a book of the Bible (alternating Old Testament and New Testament), memorizing large portions of God's word.


    There are four levels of competition - Area, Conference, Union, and Division.


    The Pathfinders are tested over the assigned study books as well as the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary Introduction to each study book.


    Events

    Camporee 

    Camporee is an annual weekend gathering of Pathfinder clubs each Fall.


    Fair

    Fair is an annual weekend gathering of Pathfinder clubs each Spring. It is the big “wrap up” of the club year.

    

    Leadership Retreat

    Because we believe in excellence, UCC Club Ministries trains our volunteers extensively to maintain a high level of proficiency

    

    Teen Events

    • Pathfinder Teen Retreat
    • Pathfinder Teen Extreme
    • Pathfinder Teen Mission Adventure

    

    Believe the Promise Camporee –
    August 5-11, 2024

    An exciting and historical vote was taken by the 2024 International Camporee Executive Advisory Committee which will impact Pathfinders around the world. The vote approved two things: A change of location for the 2024 Believe the Promise Camporee from Oshkosh, Wisconsin to Gillette, Wyoming, and new dates of August 5-11, 2024.

    We realize that this is a paramount decision which will affect Pathfinders from around the world, so we would like to share with you the process of making this decision after countless hours of research, planning, site visits and prayer.

    In 2019, we had more than 55,000 participants from 105 countries from around the world at the Chosen International Camporee, and 1,320 souls were baptized. God has truly blessed the Camporee beyond what we could have ever imagined.

    As the International Camporee has grown, so has our desire to make each Camporee experience better than the last. For months, evaluation teams have visited the Cam-Plex Facilities in Gillette, Wyoming to determine if this new site offers more support for the International Camporee. After numerous site visits, various committee votes and meetings, and with today's final vote of the executive committee, we are excited for the move and are confident that this decision will greatly improve the International Camporee experience for all attendees.

    The Cam-Plex facilities regularly host large events that include camping and on-site activities much like our Camporee, and it boasts the largest campground of full amenities in the world. Get ready for double the indoor activity space, more camping space, and over 25 new additional activities unique to the west. New experiences are just around the corner! You will not believe how much Wyoming has to offer.


    See you there!


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