Guide - Serving Others

Crisis Intervention, requirement #3:

Describe for your instructor some of the human needs and crisis situations that teenagers in your community face today. Describe some of the crisis situations that families face. This may be done in a group discussion setting.

Community Improvement, requirement #4:

Interview the pastor or Adventist Community Services leader or Inner City Program coordinator in an innercity Seventh-day Adventist Church arid (change to and ask how the church is meeting the needs of the poor in the community. Take notes during the interview.

Teaching, Requirement #3:

Interview at least two teachers with the following questions:

a. Why did you choose to become a teacher?

b. What part of teaching do you like the best?

c. What part of teaching do you like the least?

d. What do you do to get ready for a school year?

e. What do you do to get ready for a school day?

f. What teacher-related activities do you do after school is out each day?

g. What are some qualities of a good teacher?

h. What are the responsibilities and duties of a teacher?

Rural Development, Requirement #3:

Read what Ellen White has written about why we have the poor with us in Desire of Ages, Chapter 70, entitled “The Least of These My Brethren”. Summarize what you have learned from this chapter in 50 words or less

Crisis Intervention, requirement #4: Discuss your own motives for wanting to help your friends when they face personal or family crisis. What about strangers? This may be done in a group discussion setting.

Community Improvement, requirement #6:

Spend at least four hours in one of the following field trips as a participant observer.

a. Go out with a street ministry team that provides food, blankets or clothing to the homeless.

b. Go out with a health screening van.

c. Go out with a Christian work team that is repairing or building housing for the poor.

d. Work in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.

e. Volunteer with an Adventist Community Services or ADRA Canada community development program

Teaching, requirement #5:

If you are 16 years old or younger, do the following for a minimum of 40 minutes per week for three weeks:

a. Assist a teacher in designing and preparing a bulletin board.

b. Assist a teacher in preparing learning aids.

c. With the supervision of a teacher, teach a child or class at least one concept

Teaching, requirement #6:

If you are older than 16 years, do three of the following:

a. Teach an adult’s or children’s Sabbath School class for a minimum of six weeks.

b. Teach in one day in each department of Vacation Bible School.

c. Teach two Honors from the Honors Handbook.

d. Assist in teaching requirements for one of the AY classes, culminating in investiture.

e. Teach at least one year in an elementary or secondary school or in a college

Rural Development, requirement #5:

Participate in one of the following field trips or group projects:

a. Go on a mission trip to a disadvantaged rural area in another country or within your own nation.

b. Raise funds and contribute to the contents of an ADRA-kids-box of your choice (http://kids.adra.org).

c. A 24-hour group fast and educational “lock-in” session with your youth group focused on understanding the needs of the poor in developing nations, and designed to raise funds for rural development.