- Who can join the team?
- How long are the summer programs?
- Where do team members stay during the ten-week program?
- Who provides food for team members during the summer?
- Who will provide transportation for team members during the summer?
- How much money can team members make?
- What if I attend a non-SDA school. Can I still receive the scholarship earnings from my summer of canvassing?
- What are Magabooks?
- How did the Magabook work begin?
About RYC
What is Review Youth Canvassing (RYC)?
Review Youth Canvassing (RYC) is a ministry outreach program for college and academy age students, sponsored by the Review & Herald Publishing Association. RYC helps students, ages 16 through college-aged, to share their faith and earn tuition money by sharing Christian books, called magabooks door-to-door.
What is the mission of RYC?Our mission is two-fold: to help our students, financially, socially and spiritually and to bless the people we meet at the doors. We seek to bless the people we meet by sharing God's love for them through conversation, prayer, and the distribution of high-quality books for healthy living, families, and spiritual growth. We also seek inspire the church members and churches in the area where we are canvassing by sharing testimonies sharing the wonderful ways God has worked in and through the RYC team. We seek to share Jesus with everyone we meet, to hasten, His Second Coming.
About the Summer Programs
Applications are welcomed from ministry minded students at least 16 years old.
How long are the summer programs?
Review Youth Canvassing summer programs are a ten-week commitment, usually beginning in early June and ending in mid-August.
Where do team members stay during the ten-week program?
Team members in a church near the summer ministry area. Laundry facilities are also available.
Who provides food for team members during the summer?
RYC will provide the teams with a healthy breakfast. Team members are asked to bring, materials for sack lunches or money, for their lunch. During the program, there is a weekly grocery shopping day when team members can purchase these lunch items.
Who will provide transportation for team members during the summer?
Team members are asked only to provide their own transportation at the beginning and end of the ten weeks. During the program, all transportation will be provided by RYC group leaders and approved staff.
About the Schedule
What do team members do on a day-to-day basis?
Sunday through Thursday, each day starts with a team worship and training session, concluded with group prayer. Team members begin sharing magabooks door-to-door, by 1 p.m. Though they approach the door solo, team members work in a buddy system, with another teammate placed across the street, for safety, as well as moral and spiritual support. Team members conclude their work at 8 p.m. and meet back at the host church to close out their day with group prayer and praise for all the ways God has blessed them.
What do team members do on the weekends?
On Friday, team members have free time until vespers. Often, group leaders will take students shopping or facilitate social time in a park or with a host family during the free time before vespers.
Our evening vespers is a time for reflection and thanksgiving to God for what He's done for our team during the week. Each team member testifies to God's goodness by sharing a story with the group about the way they saw God using them to reach other people with His love.
On Sabbath, team members lead out in Sabbath School and church services at their host church and throughout their ministry area, telling stories from "the front-lines" of service for God.
How much money can team members make?
There is no limit to the money you can earn in RYC, since you receive 50% of all that you distribute door-to-door. Typically team members make from $1500 - $4000. In addition to this, Seventh-day Adventist academies and Universities match these monies with a scholarship anywhere from 15-100%.
What if I attend a non-SDA school. Can I still receive the scholarship earnings from my summer of canvassing?Yes, you will still receive your full earnings when you fulfill your 10-week commitment, even if you decide to attend a non-SDA school. However, certain SDA schools match your summer earnings with an additional scholarship amount.
The name "Magabook" was developed because the books we distribute are paperback (like books) and yet shaped liked magazines with bright, colorful pictures. In essence, they are half-book and half-magazine and so they were called a "maga-book". Our books include children's books, health books and inspirational and Bible study books.
How did the Magabook work begin?
Magabooks were originally commissioned in 1987 by Glenn Aufderhar, Michigan Seventh-day Adventist Conference President, and Dick Thomas, marketing director for the Review Publishing Association, as a response to Ellen White' s counsel that the book Christ's Object Lessons was a gift of heaven to be used by students to help defray the cost of Christian education. The first Magabook, a half magazine, half book edition of Christ's Object lessons, titled He Taught Love, features a commentary on twelve of the parables of Jesus Christ.
Cindy Tutsch directed the first summer Magabook program in 1988 with 15 students based in Edmore, Michigan. Since then, Magabook student canvassers have grown to about 2500 in
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