"The Adventurer Club provides home and church programs for parents with 6-to-9-year-old children. It is designed to stimulate the children’s curiosity and includes age-specific activities that involve both parents and child in recreational activities, simple crafts, appreciation of God’s creation, and other activities that are of interest to that age. All is carried out with a spiritual focus, setting the stage for participation in the church as a Pathfinder."

 - Paraphrased from the Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual, 19th Edition, pgs. 107-108

 

The Adventurer Club is a Seventh-day Adventist Church-sponsored ministry open to all families of children in grades 1-4 who agree to keep the Adventurer Pledge and Law.

• Goals and Objectives
• History of Adventurers
• Philosophy of Adventurers
• Pledge and Law
• Mission Statement
• Club Uniform

 

WHAT IS AN ADVENTURER

An Adventurer is a child in grades 1-4. Each Adventurer is a unique and special person. Still there are several characteristics which are typical of Adventurer-age children.

 

Characteristics of the Adventurer

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• I have boundless energy
• I am developing coordination

 

MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS

• I learn by doing
• I am curious about everything
• I understand what I can see and touch
• I like variety

 

SOCIO-EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• I am learning social skills
• I am becoming more independent
• I need success and approval from you
• I am easily overexcited
• I am very social

 

HOW TO RESPOND

Please don't ask me to sit still for very long. I want to DO things.
Let me improve coordination through games and creative activities.
Don't just tell me things. Let me try them and get involved with them.
I do want to know about my world. Tell me in an interesting way.
Show me what you want me to know. Don't expect me to understand long explanations. 
Show me fun ways to use my good memory for a good purpose.
I like stories and inventing things.
Use many kinds of stories, songs, games, and activities.
Give me lots of chances to relate to others in my peer group.
Let me discover and do things by myself whenever possible.
Help me find things I can do well, and let me know that you approve of me.
I need structure and guidance to control my impulses and activities.
I love to play and talk with my friends.

- Taken from the Northeastern Conference of SDA Website, http://www.northeastern.org/ministries/youth-ministries/adventurers

 

ADVENTURER PLEDGE AND LAW

Adventurer Pledge

Because Jesus loves me, I will always do my best.

Adventurer Law

Jesus can help me to:

• Be obedient
• Be pure
• Be true
• Be kind
• Be respectful
• Be attentive
• Be helpful
• Be cheerful
• Be thoughtful
• Be reverent

- Taken from the North American Division Adventurer website: http://www.adventurer-club.org/the-club/pledge-and-law

 

Learn more about the Adventurers Club by clicking below:http://www.adventurer-club.org/