The
Master Guide (MG) curriculum is one of the leadership programs that the
General Conference Youth Ministries Department uses to train people for
youth leadership. It is the "Ph.D." of youth ministry in the field. You
cannot earn your Master Guide without taking at least one Basic Staff
Training (BST) course.
The Master Guide is the expert, the advisor, the promoter for Adventurers and Pathfinders. As such, MG is NOT a Pathfinder program, it is a Youth Ministry Leadership Program.
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programs for youth ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This
concept uses the Master Guide curriculum as the foundation for junior
youth ministry leadership and helps keep youth leaders sharp,
up-to-date, and focused on why we are in this business anyway.
We are now improving the MG Curriculum for release at the 2013 Impact South Africa youth congress.
Part One-- Master Guide
This continues to be the highest level
of leadership within the Adventurer/ Pathfinder programs of the church.
It focuses on one’s personal spiritual life and growth first and
foremost. General leadership skills are then woven into the sharpening
of those skills, which are specifically geared to leading youth in
God-ordained areas of development: understanding God’s world of nature,
outreach ministry, service to others and a life-style that denotes
healthy living.
As one church leader of the past put it
so simply: “You can’t teach what you don’t know, and you can’t lead
where you won’t go.” As leaders we must not only be good at spouting
theory if we expect to see success with our youth ministry; we must live
what we preach and demonstrate it.
Part Two-- Pathfinder Leadership Award (PLA)
Once the Master Guide level has been
completed, most leaders feel they “have arrived” and now have the
necessary tools to properly guide their youth through the varied
programs the church has for its youth. This feeling of adequacy may last
a short time or for quite awhile, but sooner or later one begins to
sense that unnecessary mistakes are being made, that the world
continues, but somehow “I got left behind.” Also, in many areas of the
world there are now in place laws that require continuing education on
the part of anyone who works with young people, be they paid employees
or volunteers. Generally, this expected continuing education can be in
the form of youth-related workshops/seminars to be attended on a
periodic basis.
There is also a growing group of persons
who have put in many years of service to local clubs and are now being
asked to share those years of experience and expertise with other clubs
as “Area Coordinators” (or other similar titles). It becomes easy for
these people to begin living in the past and get out-of-touch with the
realities of the present. Getting out of touch is even easier for
church-paid employees– namely, youth department directors– at all
levels, from local fields to the General Conference.
The purpose of this level of continuing
education is to 1) continue equipping leaders for a sharper Pathfinder
ministry, and 2) enable those who are finding themselves removed from
reality to keep pace. Again, there is a refocus on personal spiritual
growth, which must be a never-ending upward path. There are several
seminars of advanced-level leadership development and opportunity for
practical application of lessons learned.
Part Three-- Advanced Pathfinder Leadership Award (APLA) (Pathfinder Instructor Award– PIA)
This level is heavy on training the
trainers– Area Coordinators and others who will be involved in helping
local club leadership be as focused and sharp as possible. Persons who
attempt this level must be approved by the local conference/field youth
department, which would imply that these persons are already living
exemplary Seventh-day Adventist Christian lives. They qualify as true
role models in their daily living, in leadership and in all
Pathfinder-related skills. The skills learned during this level of
continuing education will enable the candidate to clearly present the
very best of knowledge in the very best of ways so that club leadership
will gain the maximum benefit-- implying, therefore, that the children
receiving the actual development process might truly become the very
best youth in the world. It should be true indeed at every investiture
that “these symbols presented represent the very highest ideals of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church for its youth.”
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