Florida Master Guide Induction Ceremony

______________________Director

Director lights Spirit of Pathfindering Candle – Large,

Thick White Candle

______________________Guide Candle – Yellow Candle

______________________Master Guide Candle – Gold Candle

______________________Pathfinder Leadership Award – Red

Candle

______________________Pathfinder Instructor’s Award – Blue

Candle

______________________Pathfinder Pledge– White Candle

______________________Pathfinder Law – White Candle

______________________Pathfinder Aim – White Candle

______________________Pathfinder Motto – White Candle

______________________Inductees Affirmation

______________________Master Guide Charge

______________________Prayer
 Inductees, please come forward.

Inductees, please be seated.

Director: I hereby declare the induction ceremony of the

Florida Conference Master Guide Program now in order.

Light the Spirit of Pathfindering Candle.

For the light of our program we turn to the Spirit of

Pathfindering. The candle which I now light represents this
spirit. It is the Spirit of Adventure, Fun, Learning,
Camaraderie, Awareness, and Awakening, and above all, a
Spirit of Reverence and a Spirit of Service to God and man.
This candle represents the light that Master Guides shed on
this dark world. It stands for shining Master Guide examples,
showing how the Christian life is happy, healthful and filled
with service to others.

This light is, of itself, NOT complete or sufficient. To

introduce the complementary lights we call on our Master
Guide Staff to assist in the ceremony.

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 Guide Candle – Yellow Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the spirit of the Adventurer, ETracker and
Pathfinder levels.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, I represent the candidates, who have previously been

invested in Pathfinder levels. We, in the past, have completed
Eager Beavers, Busy Bees, Friends, or Guides. The completion
of these levels have allowed us to mature spiritually and
prepare ourselves for Master Guide Ministry.

Christ through Paul says, “When I was a child, I talked

like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became an adult, I put away childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall
see face to face. Now I know in part; then I know fully, even as
I am fully grown.”

I represent those whose goal it is to be with our Master

Guide, Jesus Christ, and have advanced toward that goal, as
members in the Adventurer, ETracker and Pathfinder Clubs.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 Master Guide Candle – Gold Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the candidates for the Master Guide level.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, I represent the candidates, for the Master Guide level.

The Master Guide Level is a course of study, that will help one
to lead young people, to a greater knowledge and relationship
to our Lord Jesus, our Savior.

Jesus, through Isaiah said, “I will lead the blind in a way

they know not, in paths they have not know, I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light and the rough
places into level ground.”

A Master Guide is an experienced leader of Christian

Youth, training them for service to God. A Master Guide is to
exemplify the Fruits of the Spirit, and the Character of our
Heavenly Father, and the Characteristics of Jesus Christ, our
personal Master Guide. Completing the Master Guide level is
the final regular step in Pathfinders.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 Pathfinder Leadership Award – Red Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the candidates for the Pathfinder Leadership
Award.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, I represent the candidates for the Pathfinder

Leadership Award. The PLA is a course of study, for those
who are Master Guides, and feel the calling to grow in Youth
Leadership and Christian Service.

“Just as each of us has one body with many members, and

these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ
we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to
all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace
given us. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him
teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is
contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it
is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy,
let him do it cheerfully.”

As PLA candidates we will expand our knowledge of

Pathfinder Programming, strengthen our leadership and
planning skills, find new ways of supporting Pathfinder Clubs,
and organize new ways of introducing others to Jesus.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 Pathfinder Instructor’s Award – Blue Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the candidates for the Pathfinder Instructor
Award.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, I represent the candidates, for the Pathfinder

Instructor’s Award. The PIA is a course of study for Master
Guides, who have completed the PLA requirements, who feel
the calling to teach counselors, staff and directors Pathfinders
skills and spiritual applications.

Jesus said, “But you are not to be called Master, for you
have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call
anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in
heaven. Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one
Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you will be your
servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled and he
whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

As PIA candidates, we will learn to organize curriculum

materials, present seminars, and join the pool of qualified
instructors available to the Florida Conference and Local
Clubs, and be of greater service to our Master Guide.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 After the lighting of the Level candles, the director says,
These candles are symbolic of the good things of the Master
Guide Program, emphasizing the high ideals for which the
program stands, and the growth the Master Guide candidate
has made in their ministry; in the past, is currently making,
and will be making in the future.

We now turn to the representatives of the high calling and

character to which we are called.

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 Pathfinder Pledge– White Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the Pathfinder Pledge.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, on behalf of the candidates, I dedicate myself to the

commitments of the Pathfinder Pledge. We have felt the
calling to the Pathfinder Ministry of Christ and are advancing
his ministry by living our lives according to his principles, and
being involved with his children.

“And we pray this in order that we may live a life worthy

of the Lord, and may please him in every way; bearing fruit in
every good work, growing in the knowledge of God; being
strengthened with all power according to his glorious might; so
that we may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us in the share
in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.”

Sir, on behalf of the candidates, I vow to keep the

Pathfinder Pledge.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 Pathfinder Law – White Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the Pathfinder Law.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, on behalf of the candidates, who by the Grace of

Christ, will live by the principles of the Pathfinder Law. We
will achieve the high ideals, by covering ourselves with Christ’s
righteousness and letting him lead in our lives.

“I will give you an undivided heart and put a new spirit in

you; I will remove from you, your heart of stone, and give you
a heart of flesh. Then you will follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws. You will be my people, and I will be
your God.”

Sir, on behalf of the candidates, I vow to keep the

Pathfinder Law.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 Pathfinder Aim – White Candle
__________________________ is now going to light the candle
which represents the Pathfinder Aim.
Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.
Sir, I represent the candidates who’s aim is, to spread the
Advent message to all the world in this generation. We are
eagerly awaiting the soon return of Christ, and want to hasten
that moment, by our personal involvement.
“With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly
trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified,
risen, and soon coming Savior might be carried to the whole
world! How soon might the end come – the end of suffering
and sorrow and sin! How soon, in place of a possession here,
with its blight of sin and pain, our children might receive their
inheritance where ‘the righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein forever;’ where ‘the inhabitant shall not say, I
am sick,’ and ‘the voice of weeping shall be no more heard.’
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Sir, on behalf of the candidates, my aim is, the Pathfinder
Aim.
Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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 Pathfinder Motto – White Candle

__________________________ is now going to light the candle

which represents the Pathfinder Motto.

Salute the Director, Light the Candle and Address the Audience.

Sir, I represent the candidates, whose motto is: The Love

of Christ constraineth us. Love is the reason for the creation of
the world, Love is the reason for Christ laying down his life on
the cross, and Love is the reason for Pathfinder Ministry.

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved

you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his
life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I
command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant
does not know his master’s business. Instead I have called you
friends, for everything that I learned from my Father, I have
made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you;
and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last.”

Sir, on behalf of the candidates, my motto is the Pathfinder

Motto.

Turn, salute the director and be seated.

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After the lighting of the pledge, law, aim and motto candles, the
Director says:

On behalf of the candidate’s representatives and on behalf of

the Florida Conference, I accept the candidate’s vows to
dedicate themselves to their Master Guide, PLA and PIA level
of study; to live according Pathfinder Pledge and Law; and
direct their lives according to the Pathfinder Aim and Motto.

Master Guide, PLA and PIA Candidates,

Attention; Candidates, Front and Center.

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 Inductees Affirmation

__________________________ will lead the Inductees in their

Affirmation of the principles of Master Guides.

Inductees, I now ask you to affirm your dedication to the

high principles of the Master Guide Program and repeat the
Pathfinder Pledge, Law, Aim and Motto aloud. Please repeat
after me:
We hereby declare that I, Be pure, kind, and true;
(please say your own name): I will be a servant of God;
Will keep the morning watch; I will be a friend of man.
I will care for my body;
My aim is to spread,
I will keep a level eye;
The Advent Message;
I will be courteous and obedient;
To all the World;
I will walk softly in the
In my generation.
sanctuary;
I will keep a song in my heart; My motto is,
I will go on God’s errands. The Love of Christ Constraineth
Me.
I will, by the Grace of God,
Thank you for your commitment. Please move forward,
receive your candle, and light your candle from the Spirit
of Pathfindering Candle.

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 Inductees light their own candles

The Director says, “You are now being presented with a

candle which you may now light from the spirit of
Pathfindering candle.”

As your light is now added to the other lights of our

Program, we charge you in the presence of these Pathfinders
leaders present, to let your light shine before others, in the
spirit of Pathfindering.

___________________________________ will now give the

Master Guide Charge.

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 Master Guide Charge

As a representative of the Florida Conference of Seventh-

day Adventists, it is my privilege to ask each one of you to re-
dedicate and re-commit your lives to Jesus as you are inducted
into this Master Guide Program.

You have been given the greatest responsibility in the

world – to work with God’s young people.

Lighting your candle from the Spirit of Pathfindering

candle shows that you are willing to live up to the highest ideals
of the Master Guide Program and the principles for which the
church stands. The Master Guide Program is a course of study
that lasts until Jesus comes.

Christ is our true Master Guide, and he has already shown

the way for us. After he takes us home, he will take away these
uniforms, sashes and honors we now have; and he will replace
them with white robes and golden crowns, as heavenly
emblems, for the loving care you have shown, for his young
people.

Therefore, you are charged, that by the grace of God; to

endeavor every day to cherish these high ideals and principles;
to love and obey God in all your life works, words and actions,
and to daily draw nearer to God through prayer and Bible
Study. By doing so, you will prove to be a true servant of God
and a friend to man, every day, so long as you live.

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 We trust and pray that you will always be faithful to God
and man, and uphold the worthy ideals for which the Church
stands.

From this day forward, we pray that each of you will

realize the job God wants you to do: lead in His Church
programs, love those around you, and be a true servant of God
and friends to His young people.

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 After the Charge

Inductees, Please remain at attention while prayer is offered.

___________________________________ will now lead us in

prayer.

Pathfinders, Attention. Parade Rest. Prayer Attention.

PRAYER

Pathfinders, Attention.

These new Master Guide, PLA and PIA candidates are

now inductees of the Florida Conference Master Guide
Program.

The Induction Ceremony is now closed. You are dismissed.

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