Michigan Camp Meeting 2017

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Master Guide Skill Development

1. How to be a Christian, Leader and Leadership Skills

2. What a Personality

3. Vision, Mission, and Motivation

4. Understanding Your Spiritual Gifts

5. Communication and Listening Skills

6. Christian Story Telling

7. How to Prepare Effective Creative Worships

8. How to Lead a Child to Christ

9. Principles of Youth and Children’s Evangelism

10. What is Discipline?

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, and you are the witnesses.

So the question just came up, looking at a card, under spiritual development number 4, earn the Pathfinder Evangelism Award.

It's an award, so we know it's not going to be found in the honor book.

I wasn't expecting the question so I didn't come prepared.

The first place I would go to look for the requirements is in the Michigan Pathfinder Handbook.

At Leader's Shop every year they're handing out a new 1 and there's probably a similar in the Adventurers.

I believe it started out as something that was developed by Elder Fleming to utilize kids during evangelism meetings in a constructive way, both for them and for other people.

You need to show up a certain number of nights in full uniform and there's a list of activities that you're going to be involved with.

If the only thing you do is greet and hand out stuff, that's not enough.

So if you've got a club, you can rotate people through these various things during the course of a series of meetings.

That way everybody gets exposure to different things.

If your clubs are like some of mine, some of your kids can do a really good job at leading a song service.

I think yesterday or the day before I mentioned Heidi in the last club I had in Minnesota.

Heidi was a very enthusiastic kid and not the first choice for leading a song service.

Heidi couldn't carry a tune in a dump truck.

She stayed on rhythm, but pitch was beyond her.

But you probably, hopefully, know your kids well enough to know that if you have somebody that doesn't have good pitch perception, not a good 1 for song service, but there's a whole bunch of other stuff that they can do.

Now, I don't have the encounter card that you need for Master Guide, but I do have 2 and 4.

If you just want to grab them while I have them for a future year for personal devotions.

Number 1 takes you through desire of ages and 4 Gospels.

Number 2 takes you through Acts to Revelation and Acts of the Apostles and the Great Controversy.

And 4 will take you through the last half of the Old Testament and Prophets and Kings.

So like I say, if anybody is interested in these, you don't want this 1 because I already marked it off.

But I have a couple more and I've got a few number fours.

So if anybody's interested, help yourself.

But if you haven't done number 1, do number 1 first, because that's what you need to become a Master Guide.

Okay, so today we're going to be starting out with the Creativity and Resources, number 6.

Our Father, we thank You so much for the lovely weather that we have and a chance to be here.

Now we ask in a special way that Your Holy Spirit can be here so people can hear what You need them to hear, not the words that I use.

Interesting quote here from General George S.

Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

How many of you have observed that with kids in your clubs?

Yeah, some of them come up with some really neat ways, others come up with some very backward ways of doing things sometimes.

You know, and so, okay, so maybe we'll need to do a little correction.

I remember seeing 1 of my sons when he first went to use a keyboard and he was going this way.

He actually has a job in IT and I'd like to have him around a little more often sometimes.

We're going to talk a little bit about learning.

This involves taking information from wherever you are and processing it internally so it can become a part of what we have to work with.

And in a broad sense the goal of learning is for everybody to own a concept or a tool so we can use it however we need to to reach our goals.

Research is showing that matching teaching methods with the students' preferred learning style increases the chance for that goal to be achieved.

There can be a lot of different things that can get in the way of that though and some of them aren't always recognized at first.

So the ways of learning are as different as the colors of the rainbow.

People have different personalities, preferences and tastes and teachers and parents need to be aware of this and value the differences.

Through observation, parents and teachers can sometimes learn what kind of learners their children are and once they know, they can develop activities that can make the most of it.

Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified 7 distinct intelligences, and There's a lot of research that's been done on it.

And how many of you have observed that different people, some people are really good at something, and some people are not good at some stuff.

And there are some kids that are really good at hands-on stuff and comes time for bork-work kind of stuff and they really, really flounder.

You get music going and some kids just come to life and others are just kind of space out.

We're going to look at some of the different ways of learning.

Some of them have a sensitivity to the meaning, sounds and rhythms of words.

They may enjoy storytelling, creative writing, love reading, poetry, not all of them poetry, but humor, find pleasure in working puzzles, solving riddles.

Logical learners will enjoy number games, problem-solving, pattern games, experimenting.

They may have very strong reasoning skills and ask questions in a logical manner, and they like order and step-by-step directions.

Visual learners, on the other hand, enjoy creating visual patterns and they need visual stimulation.

Sometimes they can be daydreamers, some of them will have a talent for art.

And sometimes some of these people, the form of their notes is not in words.

A number of years ago I was asked, could I go down to this certain church and do some, do these, at that time there were 4 Master Guide seminars to be the 4 two-hour seminars, could I go down there and do those?" And I was a little surprised at the request because this was in like June.

And at that time we weren't doing this kind of stuff here at camp meeting.

But then it was explained to me, Pastor Craig explained it, that there was 1 girl there, she needed 2 seminars and that's all that she had left.

She'd done everything else and then she could be invested as a Master Guide.

And she was going off to school, off to college, and her parents really, really, really, really wanted her to become a Master Guide.

They were both Master Guides, and they were afraid that if they didn't get it done then it wasn't going to get done.

So he said, we'll advertise it and see how many people from other clubs come.

And lo and behold there were people coming from over 50 miles away to it.

And we had a group about this size, and so we had a good time.

And we started Friday night and then did the rest of them Sabbath afternoon, and some did 1 Sabbath morning during the Sabbath school time, and then the others Sabbath afternoon.

And then, because we knew which 2 she needed, we did those first, and she was invested as part of the church service.

And so when I was talking with her folks I said, okay now you 2 have to work it out.

You're both master guides, so you have to work out which 1 of you puts on the scarf and which 1 does the pin.

So they got that worked out and They were a little surprised that they got to do that.

But how many of you were at the Investiture Sunday?

So you saw there was a reason for the order.

They wanted Mandy to get invested so she could invest her son.

Series

Master Guide Skill Development

5. Communication and Listening Skills

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Master Guide Skills Development

Master Guide Skills Development - Part 5

57m

God's First Book, Our First Classroom

3. Teaching Language Arts in the Outdoors

44m

The Issachar Factor

1h

True Education

True Education- Part 5

57m

Final Events

02 The Siege of the Modern World

55m

1 Defending the Trinity

51m

Young Adults

Young Adult Sabbath School

42m

Seminars

How to Make Disciples?

53m

The Book of Nature

1h 27m

Bible Study

26m

Short Course: Beginning Market Farming

Beginning Market Farming- Part 6

46m

Personal Evangelism

New! Balanced Living and Fit & Free!- Transforming Health Programming Into Soul-Winning

1h 17m

Sound Doctrine