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WINNER'S JOURNAL No. 3 Thursday April 21th 2011
Director: Alejandro Medina Villarreal • Libna Stevens Editor: Merab Tello Tirado Translator: Paola Álvarez Reporter: Lisbeth Antonio Sánchez Desing: Estela Hayasaka Reyes Expresión Joven Uxmal 431, Col. Narvarte 03020 México, D. F. Tel.: (55) 5687-0941 www.gemaeditores.com.mx
III INTER-AMERICAN PATHFINDER CAMPOREE
LEARNING TO USE
Don't forget that practice is important to defeat giants. It is risky to face a giant without the appropriate training. The best preparation is at • Alejandro Medina V. school. If you want to It is probable that you have umphs depend on their train- have the weapons that will allow you to heard that David killed Goliath ing. It was not that the ball didn't want to score the goal; defeat giants then with a slingshot. Now, the question is: Do you think that but rather more training was spend a lot of time studying. “But I don't needed. It is said that the David hit the mark just by like school” you may person who practices an luck? I don't think so. David activity for 10,000 hours has say, be careful! That became an expert in the use is a bad attitude, and the success guaranteed in of the slingshot because he you need to correct this area of life. 10,000 practiced many hours. You that, because prepacould have seen him shooting hours? Yes! So, if you want ration is essential to to be a successful athlete, to different targets while he turn you into a giantmusician, researcher, busitook care of his father's nessman, preacher or some- conqueror. sheep. So, when the time to (Adapted from face Goliath came, the young thing else, remember to Hebrew boy used his weapon spend lots of time preparing Vencer en tierra de gigantes, GEMA EDIfor that. ¿Can you imagine perfectly. TORES, 2011). how the violin will sound Training is necessary to obtain the important victories after 10,000 hours of practice? You are going to sound in life. Athletes know that trilike an expert!
THE SLINGSHOT
David was surprised when Samuel, the prophet, anointed him. David was soon to take King Saul's place. In fact, even Samuel was surprised, since he had in mind another profile for who needed to be king. David was just a boy, a shepherd. The fact of the matter is that he was called out of the fields to be the next king. Pathfinders, be preparer for you could get called anytime! God is going to set you apart for an especial mission. In your life, you will always face giants, so preparation is necessary to defeat them. Guard the pathways to your soul. Choose victory in the name of Christ and remember, you have been chosen for a special mission. There will be baptisms during this camporee. Maybe you didn't know and did not make preparations, but, if you feel that God is inviting you to surrender your life to Him thru baptism, don't hesitate to accept. Be part of the group of Pathfinders that, just like you, have decided to give their lives to God, so you my friend can be called, a “giant defeater”.
Editorial
Your friend, Benjamín Carballo C. Youth Ministry Director / Inter-American Division
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Let me tell you
God Made a
• Libna Stevens
Miracle for Cuba
Many have called it a miracle, others believe
There are nearly 2,000 Pathfinders in
it to be, historic, but one thing is for certain:
Cuba. The pathfinders who arrived in
it's definitely causing some excitement. For
Mexico City were selected because of
the first time in the Seventh-day Adventist
their outstanding missionary work and
Church, a large group of Cuban Pathfinders
spiritual growth. Thanks to the church in
arrived in Mexico City for the 3rd Pathfinders
Inter-America, the Pathfinder and leaders
Camporee which officially began yesterday,
from Cuba will have their campsite needs
Tuesday April 19th 2011. Two separate dele-
supplied. Their travel expenses were cov-
gations totaling 35 pathfinders and leaders
ered by their churches in Cuba, by the IAD
from 15 different Clubs are now setting their
and their family members. Their visit to the
campground in “Ciudad Deportiva”. On the
Camporee will also help to inspire the 128
previous Camporee, held in Puerto Rico, in
Pathfinder clubs back in Cuba. One of the
1998, Only 11 made it from Cuba
main objectives of the Youth Ministries in “For our government to allow so many to Cuba is to strengthen their Pathfinder travel outside the country, is practically clubs and create new ones, even while unheard of", said Pastor Rúber Álvarez, Youth young people on the island are already Director in Cuba. The Cuban government required to participate in weekend governgave approval for the group to travel just
ment activities.
three days before their flight. Álvarez knows
weather allowed for up to three harvests a year centuries ago. In the lake you can watch things grow among the passing of the trajineras, the typical boats used to move along the channels. In Xochimilco you • Alvin Maya A. can admire the huge plant and flower marketplaces where you can find all kinds of vegetation. If you go right down to the south of Mexico Xochimilco is another colonial neighborhood by antonomasia City you will find the “flower field” that full of very old New Spanish UNESCO declared World Heritage Site. buildings, a festival of music, Xochimilco –from the Nahuatl word xochimilco –has been since ancient times a nature and water. place of agricultural activity distinguished by its sowing system, the chinampas. These are portions of land built of lakebed Did you know…? The peomud and soil anchored with juniper ple of Xochimilco built branches, the local trees. The chinampas one of the oldest preallow for very good harvesting of corn, Hispanic civilizations dating beans, chili peppers and many other proto the fourth of third ducts. The rich mineral soil and the good centuries B. C.
Here you live on water
www.visitmexico.com.mx
WHERE ARE YOU?
how this miracle happened.
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WINNER'S JOURNAL KNOWING YOUR LEADERS
Pastor JONATAN TEJEL ASSOCIATE YOUTH DIRECTOR OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE What are the giant that the Adventist youth must overcome?
that help us grow in our faith. Nevertheless the most important tool is to have an authentic leadership. From the smallest pathfinder to the highest church leader in the General Conference, we all need to be in love with Jesus. As a result we will share it with kind words and actions.
I think there are several, but I will focus on one in particular; Ego, one of the biggest problems I have seen in young people. It seems that even thou they start with humbleness, somewhere a long their lives, they become selfish, self-center and conFor you, who is the best ceited. Humble servers end up example of a giant believing that they are indispensables and forget that God is the one conqueror? I could give you several names, but in control. there is no doubt that the best example of a giant conqueror is Why is it important to conquer those «giants»? Jesus Christ. Since, with his life death and resurrection, he defeated Is important to conquer them because they can be conquered, of Satan and gave us the right to in heritage eternal life. course, this can only be done with Jesus Christ by our side. Every day we need to work hard to stay close to Jesus. With Him, there is not a problem to big to handle. «Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint» (Isaiah 40:30-31).
What is the armor to defeat them? I strongly believe that there is no better armor than the Word of God and prayer. Another element that can be part of this armor is nature, which gets us closer to our Creator and remind us where we are from and where we are head it to.
What tools can Pathfinders Clubs provide to conquer these giants? Well, one of the tools that I can think of is; leaders who love God deeply. The rest, are just simple methods
BIG FOOT
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Mexican Government
Acknowledges Adventists
• Merab Tello T. Twenty thousand people made “Ciudad Deportiva” tremble yesterday night. We were even honored with the presence of the Borough President of Iztacalco (place where “Ciudad Deportiva” is located in Mexico City), Francisco Javier Sánchez Cervantes and Paulo Tort Ortega, General Director of Religion Associations of Mexico, he was there in representation of the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. They gave recognition to the Seventh Day Adventist Church for promoting moral and civic minded values thru the Pathfinders Club.