AY Silver Award Plan for Physical and Cultural Excellence
CHALLENGE AND ACHIEVEMENT
The AY Silver Award
plan for physical and cultural excellence challenges Adventist youth to
clean living and wholesome adventure. Recognizing their bodies as
temples of the Holy Spirit, God's youth will strive for a physical
excellence which can meet the strenuous demands of these climactic
times. The need also for clean thinkers and youth with keen spiritual
perceptions has never been greater.
As I examine the
requirements for the AY Silver Award, I am convinced it will take time
and perseverance to reach the high standard of excellence called for.
Those youth who succeed in qualifying for the AY Silver Award will
experience real satisfaction of achievement and will know their success
is preparing them for leadership in both church and community.
I heartily endorse the
AY Silver Award plan of the Youth Ministries Department and urge our
youth everywhere to strive for this high attainment.
—Jan Paulsen
AY SILVER AWARD
The Apostle John
addressed the youth of his generation with the words "I have written
unto you young men because ye are strong." God's remnant church in the
21st Century needs the vigor and strength of its youth. This strength
will be no stronger than the vitality and will of each individual
member.
The plan of the AY
Silver Award challenges youth of secondary school age to give themselves
as a living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God. As the physical
nature grows more healthy through exercise, temperance and purposeful
living, the mind will expand and the spiritual nature will be vitalized.
This threefold development is the goal of the AY Silver Award plan for
each Adventist Young Person.
These are exciting
days when the strength and resources of youthful energy are needed to
work in inner city evangelism, in overseas student missionary service
and in other action programs of a church with a world vision. Like
Daniel of old, God's youth of today will purpose in their hearts not to
defile themselves in any - way. With the blessing of God they may stand
forth in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation as stalwarts in
the faith, excelling in strength, in wisdom and in moral principles. All
of this is envisioned in the AY Silver Award.
—Baraka G. Muganda
IT'S SMART TO BE HEALTHY
Life should be an
exhilarating journey from the years of effervescent youth to the golden
days of full maturity. Along the way each traveler may hum a happy tune
as he treats himself to health and abundant living. To do this and to
make continuing progress, it is necessary to have a plan and follow it.
Living successfully
requires the programming of habits, the giving of priority to things
that are important, and the discarding of that which will not contribute
to success. It has been said that work is a kind of psychological glue
that holds a man together. It takes "glue" to hold a person together in
the midst of the physical, emotional and spiritual stresses encountered
in modern living.
Successful living
requires that individual health be sacredly guarded. Assurance of
optimum health is obtained through attention to a program of physical
fitness and emotional stability. Physical exercise, adequate nutrition,
clean living, and an abounding trust in God are the hallmarks of
intelligent direction, the goals of AY Silver Award winners.
—Allan Handysides, M.D.
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