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?

Father, we thank You that we've been able to be here at Camp Meeting this week.

We thank You that we have the opportunity to work with Your kids.

Now, we ask in a special way that Your Holy Spirit can be with us, especially with me, that people can hear the words you want to hear, not just the words that I say.

Discipline is helping pathfinders develop self-control.

It's also encouraging pathfinders, guiding them, helping them feel good about themselves, teaching them how to think for themselves.

Discipline is not to be confused with punishment.

Somebody said, discipline is doing what needs to be done even when you don't want to.

I remember looking through materials for a presentation on March and Drill for the Pathfinder Leadership Award, and in there it talked about how Usually clubs who are good at march and drill are good at a lot of other stuff too.

Because in there they learn teamwork, they learn this idea of doing what needs to be done even when you don't want to.

Now just a few moments ago I took a survey of how many of you had exercised this week.

Is there anybody here who raised their hand, who exercised this week that really didn't want to?

But, so, if you did it and you really didn't want to, Why did you do it?

And somehow our kids need to learn that sometimes there's a connection between doing stuff that needs to be done, even when we don't want to do it, because there's benefits down the road.

We do have to set some limits for our kids, And here we have a cartoon that says, and the biggest mistake was, somebody's getting the Mistake of the Week award.

Not every mistake deserves punishment, you know.

But our kids do have to learn some, sometimes we have to acknowledge mistakes and talk about them and correct them.

We don't necessarily have to punish everything.

And there are some things that have their own natural consequences.

We were going to the Meyer Gardens to see the butterfly exhibit.

And people were working on the butterfly honor.

And we were going to be leaving at whatever time Sunday morning.

And have your signed permission slip from your parents, et cetera.

They were from the same family without their permission slip.

And fortunately, I had another staff member.

Mom and dad just dropped them off and they're gone.

And fortunately I had another staff, he wasn't an extra staff member, but he said, so they can't go, right?

He says, Well, you've got enough adults for the ones that are here, so I can just take them home.

And now they knew that if they were going to go on stuff, they couldn't depend on their folks to do the permission slip.

They still needed to get it from them, but now they recognize if I'm going to go, I have to get the slip from them.

I have to get it signed so I can hand it in.

Well, do we want to start out with a long list of stuff?

No, because the kids don't want to read it.

Let's start with just a few rules because the more you have, the harder it's gonna be for your children and staff to remember them.

As a leader we have to keep our kids healthy and safe.

We need to help them learn how to get along with other people and sometimes we have to explain our reasons for saying no and we want our kids to understand what the reasons are.

Here we find somebody at the reference desks being informed, you'll find classroom discipline in the 3 easy lessons in fiction.

Somebody has said that if you take your dog to obedience training, most of the training is actually done to the human.

Discipline is almost always learned over a period of time.

So another part of setting limits, give the pathfinders a voice.

You know, they need a chance to tell you what they think and feel.

If they help make the rules, they're more likely to obey them.

And we need to understand their point of view.

But just because you listen to them doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to agree with them and change the rules.

You can set a lot of limits together, though some may be set by you alone.

Let's face it, in a good Pathfinder club, it's not a democracy.

In a good 1, we have a benevolent dictatorship.

Not a malevolent dictator, but a benevolent dictator.

There's these guys in this baseball team that are looking pretty well exhausted and everything.

And the guy says, here's the problem coach, we're all out of this and it's the hustle container.

Now, remember a little bit ago I commented about how You brought up about march and drill.

If memory serves me, 1 of the first requirements to getting that honor is to list some of the benefits of doing it.

And 1 of them is what some call esprit de corps, which is a French, and I'm not great at French pronunciation, but really what it means is the spirit of the body.

And if you get a group of kids who learn to work together in teamwork like a drill team should be, they will develop a sense of being a body, that they are a unit.

And a part of that, something that will come along with that, is they don't want to let somebody else down.

And out of that sometimes can come the hustle that they're missing right here.

That's just 1 of the indicators of an organization's health.

Communicating clearly is another very important part.

If you say, we want you back, and now don't be too late when you come back.

You might have a totally different idea of what too late is compared to him, and you're in the same club.

And the kids are going to have a lot different idea.

But when you say 11 o'clock, now we have some clarity.

So, we're going to look at 5 C's of discipline.

We're going to look at them individually.

Clarity, That's a really cool butterfly that you can see through, the wings on it.

Series

Master Guide Skill Development

10. What is Discipline?

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

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Master Guide Skill Development

2. What a Personality

1h 4m

Becoming a Visitor-Friendly Church

02 From Greeting to Serving Part 1

1h 7m

Master Guide Skill Development

9. Principles of Youth and Children’s Evangelism

1h 7m

Children's Ministries

Sabbath School and the Home

1h 16m

Fieldwork

Follow Me

50m

Disciple Me - Guiding Children Toward Christ

01 God’s Vision to Disciple Our Kids

31m

Master Guide Skills Development

Master Guide Skills Development - Part 3

52m

Adult Sabbath School: You're Teaching More than a Lesson

Adult Sabbath School: You’re Teaching More than a Lesson - Part 1

1h 5m

Disciple Me - Guiding Children Toward Christ

03 Bible Prayer Walks

29m

Evangelism

Living It: Public High School Outreach

47m

Called to Lead

04 This Is Gonna Hurt Me More than It Hurts You

59m

Sound Doctrine