COMMUNITY SERVICE
"I will be a servant of God and a friend to man"
Your club can earn honors while completing community service activities. www.clubministries.org/pathfinders/pathfinder-honors/
Look for category: Spiritual Growth, Outreach and Heritage Feeding Ministries Disaster Ministries Community Improvement Christian Visitation |
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Why Do Pathfinders CAN COLLECT?"Following a medieval tradition, some countries celebrate a holiday around the last days of October called Halloween. Originally, on that day the poor of the towns would go door-to-door asking for donations of money. There were overtones of witches and goblins and dire consequences if money was not doled out. For most, the modern version consists of children going door to door dressed in outlandish costumes asking for sweets. In 1951 a Mrs. Julius of the Wadena, Minnesota church had an idea. Why not use this holiday to reach out and do some good instead of doing the sweets thing? So she organized the children of her local church school, calling them “Dorcas Scouts.” So that the community would understand better what was happening, and they set out to collect food, money, and other useful household articles that then could be given to poor folks in town. An article was run in the local paper ahead of time to prepare the townsfolk—and it worked! After it was all over, the local paper ran another article recounting the experience ending with the phrase “They enjoyed it!” It immediately became a tradition. Wisconsin picked up the idea the following year, and Pathfinders now have their annual Halloween can pickup, gathering many thousands of dollars-worth of food and other items, which are then distributed to needy families by the hundreds often just before Christmas." (Hancock, John. The Pathfinder Story. AdventSource. 18-19.)
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