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    The first Pathfinder clubs began in the late 1920s in California, started independently by interested individuals rather than a single founder. The earliest recorded clubs were in Anaheim and Santa Ana, California. In the 1940s, more clubs were started in Southern California under the leadership of youth directors who helped the movement grow. By the late 1940s, there were Pathfinder clubs across California conferences. The General Conference then adopted Pathfinders as an official worldwide program of the Seventh-day Adventist church in 1950, and it has since expanded globally to involve thousands of youth.

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    The first Pathfinder clubs began in the late 1920s in California, started independently by interested individuals rather than a single founder. The earliest recorded clubs were in Anaheim and Santa Ana, California. In the 1940s, more clubs were started in Southern California under the leadership of youth directors who helped the movement grow. By the late 1940s, there were Pathfinder clubs across California conferences. The General Conference then adopted Pathfinders as an official worldwide program of the Seventh-day Adventist church in 1950, and it has since expanded globally to involve thousands of youth.

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    The first Pathfinder clubs began in the late 1920s in California, started independently by interested individuals rather than a single founder. The earliest recorded clubs were in Anaheim and Santa Ana, California. In the 1940s, more clubs were started in Southern California under the leadership of youth directors who helped the movement grow. By the late 1940s, there were Pathfinder clubs across California conferences. The General Conference then adopted Pathfinders as an official worldwide program of the Seventh-day Adventist church in 1950, and it has since expanded globally to involve thousands of youth.

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    The first Pathfinder clubs began in the late 1920s in California, started independently by interested individuals rather than a single founder. The earliest recorded clubs were in Anaheim and Santa Ana, California. In the 1940s, more clubs were started in Southern California under the leadership of youth directors who helped the movement grow. By the late 1940s, there were Pathfinder clubs across California conferences. The General Conference then adopted Pathfinders as an official worldwide program of the Seventh-day Adventist church in 1950, and it has since expanded globally to involve thousands of youth.

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    PATHFINDER HISTORY SUMMARY

    Pathfinder Beginnings
    Who started Pathfinders?  The short answer is that no one person did, but rather that a diverse
    group of youth-focused, God-loving, ministry-minded individuals in various location created
    "Pathfinder-like" clubs in various locations that eventually grew into the ministry we now know as
    Pathfinders.

    The first Pathfinder Club of record was in Anaheim, California directed by John McKim and Willa
    Steen.  This club began in the late 1920's and ran through the 1930's.   In 1944 McKim died and the
    Steens had moved.  In 1930 Lester and Ione Martin with co-directors Theron & Ethel Johnston
    began a club in Santa Ana, California.

    Both of these first clubs were in the Southeastern California Conference and encouraged by Youth
    Director Elder Guy Mann and his associate Laurance A. Skinner.  For several years there were no
    clubs of record.

    In 1946 John H. Hancock, then the youth director for Southeastern California Conference got a club
    going in Riverside, California.  John designed the Pathfinder triangle emblem and got a ministerial
    student, Francis Hunt to direct the club.   Both John and his wife Helen Hancock taught honors.

    By 1947-48 Southern California Conference began having Pathfinder clubs - the first at Glendale,
    with Lawrence Paulson as director.  About that same time, the Central California Conference, under
    the direction of Youth Director Henry T. Bergh, began their Pathfinder program -- starting 23 clubs
    that first year.

    Beginning with the God-directed program, called Pathfinder Clubs, in California, the General
    Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist church adopted the program.  It thus, in 1950, became an
    official worldwide organization of the Adventist church, and grew rapidly.

    Pathfinders is now a global ministry affecting thousands (if not millions) of young people worldwide.

    Read More in The Pathfinder Story, available as a book or as an e-file, in both English and Spanish.


    Visit AdventSource.org.

    ~Article Contributed by Dixie Plata, Pathfinder historian.

    Pathfinder Museum Article Adventist Review

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