[Last] month’s Global Youth Day was the second annual event that sent hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventist youth and young adults out of church for service projects in neighborhoods and communities worldwide.
The March 15 event was also broadcast on the Internet live, highlighting projects from 20 sites. This year’s event had nearly three times the live online participation from last year, with more than 27,000 media publications on the event’s website and Facebook page.
At each of the international Pathfinder camporees, Pathfinders get the chance to help someone in another country learn more about Jesus.
If you're attending the upcoming Forever Faithful International Pathfinder Camporee this August, you'll get the chance to help out too!
It's super easy, what you do:
On the last night of the 2009 Courage to Stand International Pathfinder Camporee, a 3D animated teaser announced the theme and the title of the next international camporee.
The video featured Queen Esther (the main character of the 2009 nightly stage drama) introducing Daniel (the main character for the 2014 nightly drama).
The camporee organizers released a "blooper reel" of the video a while back. You can watch that video above.
You can watch the original animated promotional video from 2009 below.
UPDATE: Global Youth Day is happening right now. Watch the live video.
Adventist youth around the world plan to skip church on Saturday, March 15. Instead of listening to another sermon, these youth plan to actually be the sermon!
It's called Global Youth Day (GYD) and the General Conference Youth Ministries wants youth to go out and share God's love to their communities through acts of kindness.
Eight million young people participated in last year's Global Youth Day, according to the GC Youth Ministries Dept. It was also the Adventist Church's largest social media event. Four million people were talking about it on the Internet, according to Adventist News Network.
[Image via: @MCHadley/Twitter]
Southern Adventist University went under a campus wide lockdown Thursday afternoon in response to a "percieved threat" by a former student.
The lockdown lasted approximately 2 hours as police flooded the administration building and men's dormitory. The Greater Collegedale School System also went under lockdown, according to the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
After the lockdown was lifted, the university released a statement saying that a former Southern student made a threat over delayed paperwork. The university was alerted to this threat by Chattanooga State Community College officials, the statement said.
(Photo by Joe Ellis/The Clarion-Ledger)
Who says kids can't preach or be in charge of church service? Age is no limit for this 3rd-grader in Jackson, Miss.
For the past two years, Samuel Green has preached his own memorized sermons at more than 50 churches and events —and he's only 7 years old!
USA Today featured the Seventh-day Adventist kid preacher in an article reprinted from a local newspaper.
Here's how he does it:
Last Saturday’s Global Youth Day was the single largest international mobilization of Seventh-day Adventists through social media, said Gilbert Cangy, the world church’s Youth Ministries director.
As hundreds of thousands of Adventist youth participated in community outreach, the church’s Youth departments worldwide reported their service activities live on Hope Channel in Australia, Germany and the United States.
More than 80,000 youth were connected through the social media – including Facebook and Twitter – and over 4 million people were talking about the initiative on the Internet.
On Sabbath, March 16, millions of youth around the world will hear one less sermon and instead BE the sermon.
Instead of sitting in church and listening to a sermon, the General Conference Youth Ministries Department wants youth to share God through acts of kindness in their communities. The GC Youth Ministries Dept. says 8 million youth will be participating.
This is all part of something called Global Youth Day. The theme is "One in Compassion," and it is meant to kick off the worldwide Youth Week of Prayer.
The GC wants youth to feel that they are part of a global movement and that they are all working together with a common mission of service.
The Youth Department hopes Global Youth Day will be "a much needed positive and constructive response to perceived fragmentation," according to the department's proposal.
So here's the plan:
Learn more about the 2012 Generation of Youth for Christ conference at gycweb.org
A short newscast, called JCI Today, has been airing during the nightly General Sessions of this year's NAD/World Youth Prayer Congress. If you've missed any of them, don't worry… we've got you covered.
The newscasts are hosted by George Johnson and Suzanne Ocsai. They are joined by a Enie, a puppet voiced by James Black Jr.
You can watch the videos below:
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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