Living Hope Messengers Pathfinder Club hosted a Facebook Live event on Sabbath, May 23 at 4 PM. The Honor was taught by Pastor Christian Martin live on their Facebook page:
Click on the embedded YouTube video below.
This is an opportunity for all interested Pathfinders and staff members to earn the Cultural Heritage Honor by watching the presentation, filling out the attached sheet below and submitting it to your club directors to receive your patch.
Dear Conference Youth Directors and Pathfinder Leaders,
Your Columbia Union Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE) planning team has been closely monitoring the rapidly developing Coronavirus threat. We are attempting to strike a balance between responding diligently and not overreacting to the situation. We are considering alternative models to our traditional PBE event. However, it has become increasingly clear to us the necessity of postponing our PBE event. Thus, there will be no Union level PBE event held on March 21.
We will continue to closely watch how the virus continues to spread and evaluate its impact on our churches and communities. In early April, we will reassess the feasibility of rescheduling this event.
I thank you for your patience and understanding as we attempt to responsibly respond to this crisis. Please understand that our priority has been and always will be the safety and wellbeing of our Pathfinders.
I would like to express my personal appreciation to Sherilyn O’Ffill, our union PBE coordinator, and our planning team for their quick action and due diligence to this very fluid situation.
Blessings,
Frank Bondurant
Vice President, Ministries Development
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
Tel. (410) 997-3414, ext. 560
5427 Twin Knolls Road
Columbia, MD 21045
Suggested Wear: Potomac Conference Pathfinder Shirt
MESSAGE FROM US MARINE CORP MUSEUM:
Please join us from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm on SUNDAY, 23 February at the National Museum of the Marine Corps for the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima Scout and Family Day!
On 23 February 1945, AP photographer Joseph Rosenthal captured an image of six Marines raising an American Flag that became the inspiration behind our museum as well as an icon of the Marine Corps. In addition to commemorating the Battle of Iwo Jima, we will also be paying tribute to the incredibly important work of War Correspondents.
Participants from various scouting organizations (Scouts, BSA, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, American Heritage Girls, Trail Life, USA, Pathfinders, and Royal Rangers) can work towards or earn a journalism badge based on their organization’s requirements!
Journalism Honor Worksheet found here!
Registration is required, please email nmmckids@gmail.com with what badges you will be working towards and the number of participants.
For more information about the entire weekend’s commemorative events, please visit: https://www.usmcmuseum.com/calendar.html
We hope to see you there!
Laura
Laura Hockensmith
Chief of Education
National Museum of the Marine Corps
18900 Jefferson Davis Highway
Triangle, VA 22172
Upcoming Training Opportunities
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Location: TBD
Note: Classes listed below are tentative and subject to change.
Email from Potomac Conference will be sent out prior to each date confirming classes, date, time, and location
Date | Master Guide* | PLAΔ | PIA |
Jan 18, 2020 | MGSK 003 – Communication Theory & Listening Skills | Knowing Your Temperament | Dealing with Attitude |
| MGSK 004 – Practical Communication Practices | Finding Your Purpose | ||
| Conflict Resolution | |||
April 18, 2020 | MGSK 002 – Vision, Mission, & Motivation | Pre-adolescent growth patterns & What makes adolescents tick | Using your Influence |
| Drilling & Marching | Discipleship through mentoring | ||
May 16, 2020 | Drill Instructor Training (AYMT) | Understanding discipline, effective discipline & Christian discipline | Understanding Temperaments |
| MGSK 005 – Understanding Teaching & Learning Styles | |||
July 18, 2020 | MGSK 006 – Creativity & Resources | Family violence, AIDS, child abuse, violence prevention, teen drug use, tobacco and your heart, alcohol, etc. | Effective meeting procedures |
| MGSK 007 – How to prepare creative worships |
*Master Guide classes will be managed by Area Coordinators and offered in Spanish and English, 6 times per year
ΔPLA classes – the goal is to offer in both Spanish and English but this will be determined on a class by class basis
PIA classes will be offered in English only
Conference PF Leadership Training Day
PATHFINDER OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE is an outdoor adventure for Explorers to teen pathfinders. The first event will be on:
October 10-13, 2019
You will find more information on this event in the documents below.
Backpack Trip Information 2019
Backpack Trip Registration 2019 (fillable)
This site is under development.
This message is in English and Spanish.
Directors,
This is to make sure that you are planning to have at least one vehicle at Chosen Camporee that can be parked in the outside parking lots and driven off campus.
There are several reasons this is necessary:
1 – You will need to pick up your food at area grocery stores, Costco, etc. There are no grocery deliveries to campsites during camporee.
2 – You may need to take someone to urgent care or the emergency room. If someone gets transported in an ambulance, you will need to have a vehicle to get a club representative to the hospital.
3 – The weather may change and you may need to go out into town to purchase tarps or other emergency supplies which you did not bring with you.
If you cannot have a vehicle yourselves, please coordinate with another club that does have transportation which can be driven off site BEFORE you arrive in Oshkosh.
Also, please be reminded that the majority of your food needs to be picked up and at the camp by 7pm on Tuesday because that is when the gates close
Pastor Sherilyn O’Ffill
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Este mensaje es para asegurarnos de que usted está planificando tener por lo menos un vehículo que se estacionara fuera del Camporee Chosen para poder moverse fuera del campamento.
Hay varias razones por la cual esto será necesario:
Si usted no puede tener un vehículo para su uso, por favor coordine ANTES de llegar a Oshkosh con otro club que tenga un vehículo en las afueras del área del camporee para que usted pueda utilizar ese vehículo en caso de que sea necesario.
También, recuerde que la mayoría de la comida necesita ser recogida y estar en el campamento antes de las 7pm el martes porque es cuando las puertas/portones del campamento cerraran.
Pastor Sherilyn O'Ffill Associate Director, Youth Department POTOMAC CONFERENCE CORPORATION of Seventh-day Adventists 606 Greenville Avenue | Staunton, VA 24401 office 540-886-0771 mobile 707-812-3921
Hello Directors and Potomac Pathfinders,
On Sunday, we had a full house at the Vienna SDA church for the last director’s meeting to be held before the Oshkosh International Camporee. In this post is a PDF of the presentation that was given. A lot of important information was shared the leaders that attended. Please review so you won’t miss a thing.
Nesco Lettsome Jr. Specialty Coordinator for Communications potomac.comm@gmail.com 301-532-8533
The purpose of this Communique is to
a keep communication between Area
Coordinators and Directors/Staff. This
will be use to educate and as a reminder.
Starting next Pathfinder year (July
2019) we will continue to send this
communique on a regular basic depending
on the needs, also this
Newsletter will be use to inform you
and your club about any updated information
from the conference.
We would love to hear from you on
the challenges and concerns you may
have throughout the year. We will try
to address them.
El propósito de este comunicado
es mantener una comunicación
entre los coordinadores de área y
los directores/personal de apoyo.
Esto lo usaremos para educar y
como recordatorios.
Comenzando el próximo año
(Julio 2019) nosotros seguiremos
enviando este comunicado de
manera regular dependiendo de la
necesidad del mismo. También
será utilizado para mantenerles al
corriente de las noticias mas recientes,
cambios y actualizaciones
de la conferencia.
Nos encantaría escuchar de ustedes,
cuales son sus retos y preocupaciones
a lo largo del año y
haremos todo lo posible por contestarles.
Check your calendars. It is set to happen on May 5, 2019 at the Takoma Academy campus. Below is the Flyer for the Fair. It includes a list of times and activities. Please take time to click on it to see the full sized downloadable PDF.
We need volunteers to make this Fair a success. Volunteers will help with site setup. We are asking that all volunteers:
We are asking all clubs not to bring adult volunteers on site to help the conference and/or pathfinder clubs who have not gone through the Verified Volunteer training and background check. This compromises the safety of our pathfinders and destroys the integrity of the process the North American Division has put in place for our kids.
We request that TLTs to sign up at the TLT volunteer station to work for 4 hours per TLT for the Pathfinder Fair event. TLT need to sign up and sign out at the TLT table in order to receive volunteer hours. If you have special volunteer forms from your respective high schools, please bring them at that time to be filled out.
Please register for the fair by filling out and emailing your club registration and the food booth forms. You will find links below to the forms.
