 I would like to welcome you to our worship this afternoon. Thank you for a blessed service in the morning. We want to sing two songs that speak to worship for our children. Him, 196. And then we will sing Him 201. But before we do so, I'll let us pray. Our Father, what in heaven we come before you yet again. We are here to seek your face. We want to hear your voice. And, O Father, we want to be drawn closer to you. May this worship be acceptable in your sight this afternoon is our prayer in Jesus' name. Him, 196, when He cometh in Kiswa Eden. Placing our children before God, we're going to sing Him 201, when He penned an equate, 201, in the Nyimboza Cristo in Kiswa Ely. To start the investor program now, and we'll start inviting the adventurers and the pathfinders to come in as they march, and then we can proceed with the investor program. Adventurers, attention. Adventurers, forward, march. Pathfinders, attention. At ease, attention. Pathfinders, by the left, forward, march. Left, right. Left, right. Left, right. Left, right. Shoulder height, shoulder height. Left, right. Left, right. Left, right. Left, right. Listen, hold. Thank you, May. Now, thank you so much, May, and I have your seats. Thank you. Welcome once again to our investor program. And from here on out, we will now officially, we have now officially started our investor program. Thank you, and be blessed. Be nice. From January, we started with the children, the adventurers, four to nine years old, and we have gone through many, many lessons together, we have had challenges together, and our aim today, or what brings us today here, is to show you what the children have been doing with their teachers and their parents. They have accomplished so much, we wish we had time to show you, but all we are going to do today is to show you briefly with their teachers, tell you one or two things that they learned during the week, during the year. So I'm going to call upon the class teachers of various classes, that is the six classes we normally have, some we may combine. They just come and tell you in a minute or two what they have achieved during the year. Adventurer Club covers from pre-primary up to grade four. From grade four, they go to the Pathfinder Club, and today we have come also to be able to present to the Pathfinders the very, the few number of children that have been able to accomplish their work in the adventurers. So we are going to call all the teachers, the teachers for the various classes, please come forward so that you can be able to show the parents and the children, and the other teachers and the children what you have been able to achieve. Please come, teachers. So you want to appreciate your children. All of you have worked so hard. We'll not be able to appreciate each class, but you are going to move to the next class as from today. Come January when you open the class, the classes, you're going to move, if you're a BCB, you're going to move to Sunbeam. If you're a Sunbeam, you're going to move to Bildard and Seinfeld. So there's no one who is not graduating. So each of you is going to graduate today, but for today we'll only appreciate the ones who are crossing over to the Pathfinder. Thank you. Happy Sabbath, happy Sabbath again. So I am with the little lambs who are four years and the early birds who are five years. We are eager, we are creative, and we want to have a lot and lots of fun in our class. So we have activities that we have been able to go through, capturing four main areas. We have learned about my God in creative ways. For example, the Bible friends that we have seen, like Jonathan and David, we have learned about ourselves. This includes how to take care of our bodies. We have learned our body parts, and we have also learned how to take care by eating the right foods. We have also learned about my family because as the little ones, we are still attached to our families and we are learning to meet strangers. So we have learned a lot, like how to take, how to support at home with small, small tasks. And we have also learned about my world through some activities. Overall, in this class, we are partnering with parents because they are four and five years. They are still learning physically, spiritually. So it's a class that we are partnering together. We have a lot of time with the parents. And I'd like to show you one thing that we made. This is our creativity work. It's a bird in our class. We are little birds. As much as we are little, we can be used mightily by the Lord. And we did this craft to remind them how God used the ravens to feed the prophet and also how Noah sent the little dove to go and check whether the floods were over. So we might be small, we are still learning, but we can be very helpful and instrumental in our homes and in our community and to be used by God. Amen. Good afternoon, church. My name is Teacher Steve. I should be six years old. I am in BZB. Throughout the year, we've been learning a lot of things and we've been guided by four different aspects. Aspect number one was learning about my God and learning about my God, we came to discover the origin of sin, the first sin and God's plan for the entire world to redeem you and me through His Son, Jesus Christ. And we actually learned that Jesus is the first person who responded to the call, I will go and they accepted to come and serve you and me. The other aspect we learned is my world, that we exist in and how we can take care of the environment, not limited to the animals that are within our environment. We also learned about myself, how to take care of my body because our body as BZBs we learned is very special. We are all created differently, unique, we are not the same, but very special. So taking care of our body that entails both spiritual and physical. And lastly, we talked about my family because all of us before we extend to church, our first church is at home. And we extended the family and combined it with my world so that we are aware of the different people we interact with at home and at church. And at church we, as BZBs, we know a few of the leadership of the church and church workers, elders, deacons, deaconesses, we know all those. We had a lot of lessons outstanding, we just have a few to display and maybe pick a lesson or two from such. To begin with, what I'm holding here is a, we call this a baton award on a piece of wood on a one surface. I have very many buttons, different colors, different sizes, even shapes, but all of them, they exist on one surface. He listened, all of us, we are very different. I am tall, you are either taller or shorter or lighter, but we should learn to share the same faith or even the physical resources that we have or generally just learn sharing and coexist. We picked that from Hebrews chapter 13 verse 16, which says that professing, it is good to share because God is pleased with such kind of sacrifices. The other one that was really outstanding, it's working. That is really outstanding is one on display, one of the children here who is from BCB class will tell us what it is all about and the key lesson. BCB class, one of the lessons I learned was the Fisher Award. Matthew 4 verse 19, it says, come follow me and I will make you fishers of men. The fishermen went to fish at night so that they could get a lot of fish. We also know the best time to go and fish. Thank you very much, Layla. Layla told us a key lesson that this is called Fish Award from Matthew chapter 4 verse 19, which says, come follow me and I will make you fishers of men. They went to fish at night because they knew the time so that they could have a lot of catch. So as also even today, the entire world is in darkness. It is the right time for us to go fishing for Jesus. God bless you. Happy day. My name is Teacher Nellie. I'm from Sunbeam, together with Teacher Ross. So this year, we had a total of 15 Sunbeams and we had a wonderful time in class. And in addition to all the lessons we learned, we had some awards and some of them were fitness fun. We also had the collector award. We had whales and many others. So here we have a display of the collector award. So in collector, we collected a number of items. We did coins, currencies, coins and coins and notes from different countries. We also collected drugs and we also had shells, shells and buttons. So in our class, we collected coins. So these are coins from different countries. And we also have notes from different countries. So the lessons we learned from collector award, get the lesson from the book of James. James chapter one verse 17, I'll read. James 1, 17, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of Light with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. So we learned that everything God has given us is a blessing and can be used to bless the world. Like in this case, we have different currencies and we came out with this beautiful work. So everything that God has blessed us with can be used to the glory and honor of His name. May God bless you. Happy Sabbath. My name is Dechan Nancy and we are builders class, eight years old, very inquisitive, very eager to learn. We learned a lot of things throughout the whole year but allow me just to share with you some of the two things that stood out for us in our class. One of the things was about God's power in my life and we talked about the prayer hand and what we need to do every time we are praying so the children were able to make a prayer hand that was saying we need to begin with thanksgiving we need to pray for God's will we need to ask God to provide for our needs ask for forgiveness of our sins and pray for the Holy Spirit. So this is something that builders are learning to do regularly so that they can have a prayerful life. Also, within the prayer life, we also talked about having a quiet time with God. So we colored the things we'll do during our quiet time with God including reading the Bible, what time will we be doing our time alone with God and the activities we shall be doing during that time. We also learned about my family and in my family we learned about the different types of family that exist and we were also able to do our family tree to be able to look at the members in our families but what stood out for this was that we are all members of God's family and we are created in different ways but we are all God has given us the energy and the authority to do His will in our respective families. In the same spirit, we also talked about giving thanks in our families and appreciating each other and we made a beautiful thank you card and we learned that it's important to appreciate the little things that we do in our families because that is the will of God. Thank you. Good afternoon church. Good afternoon once again. Here standing on behalf of the person in charge of helping hands and this group aged nine years what has been shared by my colleagues here is what we covered in our class and what really stood out is my time, that is myself. So as an individual, the talents that God has given you how do you use them? What have you done to bring other people to God? So in that class, our learners, they did a basket and in this basket, they had cards that was shared to different people. That is those people that were not feeling well in the hospitals, those that were their neighbors and those that did that, they gave report that many people had a positive, they responded positively towards that. So right now I'm not going to say or to share other activities that were done in our class but I want to bring before you those that are going to graduate, that is to the next class and what we would like to emphasize again in this class is that not those that attended twice or twice that are going to be awarded but those that were consistent and they did the entire curriculum and they were successful. So I'm going to read you nine, nine people that successfully passed in our class and they are moving to the next class. So when you hear your name, maybe you come closer. Okay, the first one we have is Joel O'Kelow. Joel O'Kelow. Next we have Esther O'Kelow. Next we have Judith O'Kelow. Followed by Elma Margati. Next we have Rodanuru. Angel Valencia. Megan Bogg. Joseph Mussili. Crystal Kerubo. And finally, one of the learners is not here who is going to be recognized or acknowledged in absentia and that is Amy Sekani. So I welcome, so I welcome the director to receive. Okay, at the moment they are going to be given gifts then later the director will be receiving them. Okay, I'm calling upon the Pathfinder director to receive. Good afternoon and happy Sabbath. On behalf of the Nairobi Central Pathfinder Club we'd want to welcome the Helping Hand class into Friends class and we should be starting to scuff you up with the Pathfinder scuff. This is to acknowledge the efforts of the teachers in Adventurers Club of Putin to grow and groom the little ones to the point where they are now able to graduate and join Pathfinder. So welcome very much, we'll be more than happy to welcome you in the new year to join our club. Thank you. Happy Sabbath. Now I want to welcome the Adventurers who have crossed into the Pathfinder ministry and on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide I want to charge them that as they continue with this ministry even though it might be having challenges but we pray that the Lord will be able to be with them so that as they continue with this service the Lord will lead them. At this time I will call Elder to come and give them to pray for them as they move to the next class. Thank you and you are all welcome. We may not greet hands but you are all welcome. Can you do this? Welcome into the Pathfinder Club, thank you. It is such a wonderful time that we are going to pray. Let's pray. Our Father who art in heaven, such a wonderful time Lord that you've given unto us this afternoon. Thank you for giving us the young ones who have graduated from Adventurer to Pathfinders. We thank you in a very special way that Lord since morning they have been ministering to us and quite a number of us are richly blessed. Therefore this afternoon Lord we ask in a very special way that give them the knowledge and wisdom so that in them we can only see you Jesus. We thank you for the day because you've been with us and Lord thank you for forgiving us our sins. As they continue ministering to us this is the time that Lord you open our heart and live in us and continue dwelling in us so that at the end we'll be celebrating you and the people will see you in us. Thank you Father this afternoon. Thank you for your protection. Thank you for your healing. Thank you because you are our God. Thank you because you are our salvation and our rock. You are our fortress. Lord this afternoon as we are all here prepares for eternity for we pray in Jesus name. Happy Sabbath and happy day. We are happy to have all of you here and even happier to receive the adventurers who are coming in to Pathfinder Club. Today is our Investiture Sabbath and essentially what we are doing today is that we are graduating from one class to another and for those who are turning age 10 they are graduating from one club to another. So today we are here to appreciate the children for the work that they have been doing throughout the year and also appreciate the teachers in a mighty way for the time they have put in to prepare the programs and to even prepare the classwork. Many of us may not be aware but we follow a curriculum in all the clubs and for the children to be moving to the next level it means that they have completed what was required for the current class that they are in. So for Pathfinder Club today we would like to award some students for being outstanding and for us we are glad that during the World Pathfinder Day we had time to extensively take you through what we have been doing in our classes and those of us who are not able to watch it for one reason or another you can still catch up with the same via our social media platforms. So we are going to award some students who have been outstanding in their various units and when we are talking about them being outstanding we are talking about consistency in attendance. We are talking about being on time with completing assignments. We are talking about just being all rounded and I'd like to invite to the front our director brother Suleman Ochoala and I'd also like to invite Elder Ongay to please join us at the front. Elder please join us. So I'm going to read out the names of the students who in their particular classes have been outstanding and when I call out your name please come to the front and receive your reward. In France class we have Alvin Nyesimi. Alvin please step forward. Yes and in the same class we also had Blessing Mutungu who is not here with us today but has been very consistent and has been completing her work and has been all rounded. We are recognizing her in absentia. Her reward will be given to her when we see her next. Companion class we have Bruce Bahire. Bruce please come to the front followed by Explorer Linda Alice and in Ranger class we have Valerie Precious. Please come Valerie and receive your gift. Now we acknowledge that in Ranger class a lot of the students by the time they're getting to Ranger class they are in their final year of primary school or in the other system as well and many of them do not have the time to make it for Pathfinder. We would like to recognize the following who have also been coming consistently. I'd like to call Bill Micheca please come. And parents I'd like us all to clap for Bill. Bill has been consistent from France class all the way to Ranger class. I'd also like to call up front Gideon Isaboke. Let's also clap for Gideon. I'd also like to recognize that Gideon due to the nature of his schoolwork he has missed something but when he misses he goes out of his way to find out what he missed and when he can he joins us and always catches up. Thank you so much Gideon. And I'd also like to recognize in absentia Lars Onditi who is not here with us today but has been coming throughout the year his reward will be given to him. With regards to timekeeping we are also rewarding children for keeping time because our club meetings start at nine o'clock and we were always here up until midday. I'd like to recognize the following who are consistent in coming early. Always there is Moses O'Chieng who is not here with us today. Let's just clap for him hoping he's watching us on TV. We also have the twins Caesar and Aaron who are not here with us. Let's clap for them as well. Caesar and Aaron O'Whitty. And I'd like to call up front Kayla Rota to also receive her timekeeping award. Thank you so much. With regards to being all rounded this is a student who is very consistent in everything and always willing to participate, always willing to take up roles. I'd like to call up front George Gunga. Thank you all so much. So essentially what we are saying is that all the children have worked hard. All the children have put in the work but we'd like to recognize the ones who are up front in a very special way and thank them even for being good ambassadors of the club and just basically allowing the Lord to use them even while they are being taught, while they are being imparted to upon his word. I'd like to thank you all. You may all have your seats. And I'd like to take this opportunity also to remind us parents to keep up in raising the children in the ways of the Lord. When we are bringing them for club we don't want you to think of it as bringing them somewhere where they can just pass time or somewhere where we just want to take them because we have a lazy Sunday around. There's actually a lot of things that the children learn in the clubs. Much of it will be expounded by teacher Joseph who's coming up next to do the next session of our thing. I'd like to welcome teacher Joseph. Good afternoon and happy Sabbath once again. The pathfinders who have just been recognized have been recognized based on the class achievement. Now, aside from the class curriculum we also cover what we call honors. I'd like to ask teacher Brandon and teacher Philip to please come forward. I just want to show you what I mean by honors. So, my sash is not as decorated as theirs are. Teacher Brandon, just stand there. Teacher Philip, please come to my right. So as you can see, for these two teachers they have honor badges on their sashes. Okay, so this is what you call the sash. And for every honor that you accomplish or complete you earn a badge. So I see teacher Brandon has quite a bit here. Same with teacher Philip. And the objective is to make sure that from the point the children get into friends class to the point they get to guide class they should have achieved all these honors. Or all these honors that teacher Philip has on his sash as well. Now how do we achieve them? We usually have classes, you can both sit. Thank you. We usually have classes, honor classes after we cover part of the curriculum. And also whenever we go for a camporee so it could be a local church camp out. It could be a station camporee. It could be a division or a general conference camporee. And this is where we get the opportunity to get the children to learn about other things other than what we cover in class. So this year we were privileged to cover a couple of honors. And after you're done with the honors you actually literally sit an exam. So it's not just attending class, taking notes or doing practicals but also sitting an exam. And so this year we had backpacking and honor backpacking, honor and hiking. That was the first two honors that we did. We also had drills and marching that the pathfinders were taken through by teacher Brandon. And we also, though we've not fully completed had a camping skills one which basically teaches the pathfinders how to select a campsite, what to do while pitching a tent and what not to do and how to even stay in a campsite. So for the backpacking and hiking honors I have the following pathfinders. Now I have a set of pathfinder badges with me which I'll request the parents. If you hear your children's name or your child's name being mentioned it will be good for you to see teacher Brenda. They only cost a hundred shillings per badge. So that when we come in for induction next year it would be good to see the friends who are just earning the first set of badges have them on their sashes. Okay, so I'd like to request the following candidates to please stand. We will not be giving you the badges right now but I want you to stand where you are, okay? So for backpacking and hiking I have Nelly Chelangat. I have Amanda Boyani who is not here. I have Valerie Precious. Estelle Nyambura not here. Bill Michieka who is Bill? Linda Alice Ariana Keema not here. Rachel Neema, Jiewel Ndera I saw her earlier. Zawadi Maranga not here as well. Kins, Yego, Daisy Ruth Achieng. Now we need to give Daisy Ruth another round of applause and I'll tell you why. At the time when we did the hike and the backpacking owner she'd just come back from surgery and she did not relent. She walked the whole 12 kilometers that she was required to do without even asking for help and that is a sign of someone who is determined and someone who is keen enough to learn and do as she has vowed to do. Congratulations Daisy Ruth. Next is Divine Kimutai. So Divine is not feeling too well but he's here. Javan Gumbo, James Karume not here. Hawi Oyeke, Grace Pendo, Neema Natasha, Joy Mokeira, George Otieno, Lexand Pipim. Yeah, the rest are not here. Yeah, but these are the ones who actually took part in the hike, set the exam. And passed, so we recognize them for their effort. You can still stand because I'm also going to add a couple of others for the hike, sorry, drills and marching that has been taught by teacher Brandon. So Kayla, Rota, where are you? Saha, Donga, Moseti, or Mosah? Alvin, Niasimi, Bruce, Bahire, Gideon, Mokua, Andrew, Baraka, Edlyn, Chepkoech, and finally, Angel, Ocholla. Okay, so parents, just to emphasize what I said earlier, it would be good for them to have the badges on their sash. So please see teacher Brenda, she was here. She's the one who will be receiving monies for the badges. And upon receipt, we will issue them to the pathfinders. You can please sit down. At this point, please sit down pathfinders. I'd like to call teacher Solomon to come, our director, to give a charge to the pathfinders. Apisabat, once again, we want to thank the pathfinders for what they have done. And at this time, on behalf of the Seventh Day Adventist Church worldwide, and the pathfinder ministry, I charge you that the responsibility you've been given, that may the Lord use you, serve him, and do it better. All we can do as church is to pray for them. And as we come to the end of this, I want to thank the parents for the support they have given this ministry. I want to thank the entire church and the pastorate as well, as well as the elder in charge of the pathfinder ministry. Without your prayers, we will not be doing this. You can see now from January, we don't expect the pathfinders to have empty sashes. Without anything on them. And therefore, it's our prayer together with all the teachers that the work you are doing, may the Lord continue to bless you. And on that, I want to appreciate all our teachers. I'll start with teacher Awa. Could you just stand? Teacher Phillip, teacher Michael, teacher Sarah, teacher Anita, teacher Brenda, and teacher Isabel in your absence here. Teacher Brandon, teacher Winnie in your absence. We really appreciate you and may the Lord continue to bless you abundantly. Without your effort, we will not be this far. And may the Lord continue to bless you abundantly. Also, not forgetting my able deputies, teacher Joseph Oyeke and teacher Brenda, thank you very much. At this time. So just before we pray, parents, like I said, part of the honors that we give the children are usually earned during camp out. So next year, when the children will be having a long break, that is between end of March and mid May, we will be having a camp out for the pathfinders. You are requested as parents to start saving up for them. We will advise early in the year where we will be going and how much it is going to cost and for how long. And this is an opportunity for the pathfinders to get to learn a lot more, to appreciate nature, to get to understand what God created through the six days. Also, be able to find ways of making it through challenging times. What we teach them is also a part of life skills. So it's important that they be part and parcel of the camp out that we are planning for early next quarter. And with that, I'd like to give it back to the director and to close. Thank you very much. I'll end it at that. And at this time, I'll call our elder to come and close with a word of prayer. And the pathfinders and adventurers, remember our meeting point after this. There's something, there's a tradition we normally have. After invest, there's something. So please make sure you don't go and we are going at our meeting point, okay? All the best and enjoy your holiday. Thank you, be blessed. What do you say to the pathfinders? Say amen. What do you say to the pathfinders? I was once a pathfinder for quite some time. And I really learned a lot until I find myself working with the military. When I'm with the military, exactly what I was taught. Because when they tell you to stand at a tease, you know, they say the stomach should be forward. They always tell me that I make sure when I see one of my bosses passing, my stomach should be forward. The stomach should be forward. And I always see you anytime you want to salute. It is always a stomach forward and then you salute. And the discipline that is there. And therefore, as we continue with our mission, that of Christ, please be disciplined. And that is what I learned when I was a pathfinder. Let's pray. For the Lord, it's a wonderful time that you have given unto us this afternoon. This fire you have brought us since morning, you've been with us. And as we internalize what we have been told to do, the words that have come from the Holy Word, the Bible. We ask you, Lord, that you open our heart so that we can only see you and you alone, Jesus Christ. Thank you that you've given us the strength, wisdom, and knowledge. And with all these, we are able to praise you, to worship you, and to call upon your name in prayer. As we continue to look upon at the cross, Lord, allow the Holy Spirit to walk with us. This evening, as we'll be moving to our various places, Lord, the young ones have learned a lot. And it is because of you that they are here. It is because of you that they were able to teach us to be like Christ. Thank you, Father, that you allow us even to listen to what they were taking us through. Thank you for their leaders. Thank you for their teachers, because they have been living quite a number of their own personal issues, just to serve you and to teach the young ones. Teachers and the leaders of the pathfinders, of the adventurers, may God be with you and may God continue to walk with you and to provide for you and to bless you abundantly. Be with us, Lord, but above all, as we are all here, when you are coming with your second kingdom, Lord, remember us. We pray all this, believing and trusting in the dear name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen.