The Adventurer program was created to assist parents in their important
responsibilities as a child’s primary teachers and evangelizers. The program aims
to strengthen the parent/child relationship and to further the child’s development
in spiritual, physical, mental, and social areas. Through the Adventurer Program,
the church, home, and school can work together with the parent to develop a
mature, happy child. The church’s greatest resource is our children;
therefore, it is imperative that as a church we meet the challenge to
provide a program for our children during their early, formative years. We want
right habits, thoughts, motives, dispositions, and attitudes to be established. The
Wise Man wrote, “Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he
is old he will not turn from it.” Prov. 22:6 (NIV). This is not a cliché—it is
a scientific formula.
The Adventurer Club involves children in grades preK-4th and their parents.
The programming and planning for Adventurers should be simple and short, but
creative. Parental involvement provides opportunities for parents to participate
in the learning experience. One of the Adventurer Club objectives is to provide a
meaningful and exciting experience as the children look forward with anticipation
to some day being Pathfinders.