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History

On August 24, 1950, the General Conference Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church officially recognized the Pathfinder Club program. She approved a leaflet that was to be used as a guide for organizing clubs. He also recommended that meetings be held weekly, or once every two weeks on a weekday, and that activities include excursions, camps, hobbies and recreation. The clubs were given the name Pathfinder Club in the USA, in other places they would be given a name understandable in the local language, such as Desbravadores in Brazil, and Conquistadores in Spanish-speaking countries, and many others around the world, but always using the same symbols and program.

South America

In 1955, the first South American club began in Lima, Peru, under the leadership of Nercida and Armando Ruiz. In its second year, the Peruvian club led ten pathfinders to baptism through Bible class. It was the beginning of an evangelistic partnership between the pathfinders and the baptismal classes that would make the clubs one of the church’s most powerful evangelization tools.

Brazil

At the end of the 1950s, Jairo Tavares de Araújo, the Adventist youth leader of the South American Division, still based in Uruguay, prepared a small manual on how to organize a pathfinder club to encourage the formation of new clubs. The propaganda of the South American Division led to the parallel development of Pathfinder clubs in parts of Brazil such as São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul.