Start a Club
Essentials for Starting an Adventurer Club
Congratulations!
You have just embarked on one of life’s greatest adventures with God. Through continued prayer and personal Bible study, the Holy Spirit will guide and equip you as you establish Adventurer ministry in your church. You and your church will never be the same again!
How to begin a Adventure Club:
Included are links to forms that will assist you in this exciting new chapter.
- Acquire these Adventurer Ministry resources from the Conference Youth Ministries office.
- Contact your Pastor, your Adventurer Area Coordinator, and your Conference Pathfinder Director to plan and meet regularly with them for guidance and direction.
- Read the booklet “Adventurer Club Director Quick Start Guide” (from AdventSource) and follow the steps as outlined with guidance from your Conference Adventurer Coordinator.
- Purchase an “Adventurer Club Director’s Guide” (from AdventSource) and become familiar with the Philosophy & Objectives and the concepts and structure of the Adventurer ministry.
- Get church board approval to start an Adventurer ministry.
- Because the Adventurer Club is an outreach ministry of your local church, it is required that your church board approve it, with the approval recorded in the board minutes. Items you should include for the church board to approve are the Curriculum, Calendar, Special Guests, Field Trips, and Club Finances.
- Together with your Pastor, review the “New Club Worksheet” in order to put together a proposal to present to your church board.
- Get signatures from church board members as specified on the following New Club Charter Application and mail or fax the completed form to:
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Mail or Fax the form to (REQUIRED):
Kansas-Nebraska Conference
Youth Ministries
3440 SW Urish Rd,
Topeka, KS 66614Fax Number:
Attn: Youth Ministries
(785) 478-1000Please note that it can take up to 10 business days from the time we receive it until your club is added to YMMS.
- With the support of your Pastor and the church board, recruit members to become active as Staff. Share the need, vision, and enthusiasm of what Adventurer ministry can do for your youth and the larger community around your church.
- Invite your Conference Adventurer Coordinator to join you for Staff organizational meetings to help teach the fundamentals of Adventurers and to build the ministry vision of your Staff. Use the ” New Club Worksheet ” you started working on with your Pastor.
- Have all your staff (including yourself) complete the Adventist Screening Verification. This is required for ALL staff.
- All Staff will need to know the most recent “Eligible” date for their background check. Your staff can log in to Sterling Volunteers to retrieve the most recent “Eligible” date of their background check (see an example).
If they have never done the background check, they need to do it now using this link (https://www.ncsrisk.org/adventist/registration/reg_0.cfm?theme=0).
- All Staff will need to know the most recent “Eligible” date for their background check. Your staff can log in to Sterling Volunteers to retrieve the most recent “Eligible” date of their background check (see an example).
- Complete the YMMS Yearly Registration.