Camporee Activities, Honors Focus on Helping Pathfinders Learn, Share Love of Jesus

Story by V. Michelle Bernard

By way of on- and-off campus activities, Pathfinders at the ‘Believe the Promise’ International Camporee have had the opportunity to learn more about other regions of the world and continent—ideas, history, Adventist organizations, careers, hobbies, skills, volunteer services, different types of honors or new ways to have fun. 

Yesterday, Allegheny East Conference’s North Stars Club from the New Life church in Gaithersburg, Md., took an excursion to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. As a result, after they watched the Columbia Union parade today, they considered taking another excursion.  

This morning, Ava Carr and some of her Pathfinder friends from Chesapeake Conference’s Ellicott City Stallions Club scaled the Pacific Union College-sponsored rock climbing wall before tackling the obstacle course and Ax Throwing Honor, among other activities and honors. 

Susan Thomas, a volunteer of Maranatha International and member of Allegheny East Conference’s Hillside church in Harrisburg, participated in one of the many volunteer opportunities: stuffing backpacks for local schools. “I think it’s awesome [to help] and to know that our young people, Pathfinders, are here to help other young people and to bring the gospel to them.” 

Columbia Union members are also busy organizing and running activities—such as the Pickle Ball Honor, hosted by Jimmy Alignay, a member of Chesapeake Conference’s New Hope church in Fulton, Md., and other volunteers. 

The Campbell family—Michael, Heidi and Emma—from Maryland and several of Emma’s friends who were in Chesapeake Conference’s Atholton Faith Blazers Club, are teaching the Women in Adventist History Honor that they helped create a couple of years ago.  

“We want to promote Adventist history, but specifically … the contributions of women in our Adventist past,” says Michael Campbell, director of North American Division’s Archives, Statistics and Research Department. “And so that's what this honor is about … celebrating those incredible contributions and hopefully inspiring a new generation of young women—as well as young men—to look at opportunities and ways that they can make a difference in the church and share the love of Jesus to the world around us.” 

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