Mission Lifeguard promotional video

Mission Lifeguard is an initiative by the North American Division Youth Ministries department to reach out to missing young people.

Adventist Church devoting week to reaching Hispanics in North American Division

There's a lack of church ministries and resources for certain Hispanics in North America, but starting tonight, the Adventist Church plans to do something big about it.

For one week, the church will be doing a live TV and social media program for sons and daughters of Latino immigrants.

This live event is called Changed and will happen every night Oct. 13-20.

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Download the Just Claim It 3 theme song

The third annual NAD/World Youth Prayer Congress is scheduled for March 2012, but you don't have to wait until then to hear the new theme song.

The theme song was made available to download for free on the event's official website. We've included links to the song below:

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New updates on 2014 Camporee. Speakers announced: Sam Leonor and Gilbert Cangy

The Center for Youth Evangelism announced today the main speakers for the upcoming 2014 Forever Faithful International Camporee.

Sam Leonor (top left) has been chosen to be the nightly program speaker. Leonor is the Pastor for the La Sierra University students and faculty.

Gilbert Cangy (bottom left) has been chosen to speak for the Sabbath Morning program. Cangy is the General Conference Youth Director.

The two speakers were unanimously approved by the Camporee's Executive Advisory Committee on Oct. 17, when it met to discuss camporee planning.

Details and updates about new things at the upcoming camporee are available in the minutes from the meeting.

Here are some of the highlights:

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Wildfire threatens Big Lake Youth Camp

Photo from Big Lake Youth Camp's Facebook
page. Arrow added to show BLYC's location.A nearby wildfire forced Big Lake Youth Camp to finish its final week of summer camp early and evacuate all staff, campers and livestock.

The lighting-sparked Shadow Lake Fire has burned to within a half mile of the Seventh-day Adventist summer camp, the camp website stated.

The camp was in the middle of Family Camp II, the last week of camp in its summer camp season when it was evacuated on Sept. 3.

Big Lake Youth Camp is located at the base of Mt. Washington, inside the Willamette National Forest, near Sisters, Ore.

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NAD creates new annual Bible trivia tournament for Pathfinders

The North American Division recently created a new system for Pathfinder Bible trivia tournaments. It's called The Pathfinder Bible Experience.

Currently, there are different types of Bible trivia programs being used by Pathfinder Clubs across the North American Division. The Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE) was created to unify these different models and give "ownership to local leaders," according to a recent NAD Youth Dept. email.

Pathfinders will be studying the books of 1 Samuel and Mark for this year's tournament.

Here's a quick overview of how the program will work:

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