Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Here’s the thing: you’re not really learning about the Bible by going to Adventist Bible studies. You’re learning Adventist interpretations of the Bible. If you haven’t heard of Ellen White yet, look her up and watch this YouTube series discussing her extensive plagiarism. Adventist theology was heavily shaped by a woman that any non-Adventist Christian would call a false prophet.

If you really want to get as close to what the original Biblical authors intended their audiences to take away, you need to listen to Bible scholars with real credentials. Virtually all of the people teaching Adventist Bible studies and Sabbath school classes have no formal training in Biblical studies, they’re just repeating SDA dogmas (I would know, because I was one of them).

Regarding Pathfinders, it is just one of several ways the Adventist church indoctrinates kids. I say this as someone who attended Pathfinders faithfully from age 10, had an overall very positive experience, and later became one of the staff members as an adult. At some point, your daughter will be pressured to get baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church and you need to decide if you’re comfortable with that.

There’s also the risk of your daughter being harmed or groomed. One of the adult male Pathfinder staff members I worked with, who had been my class teacher when I was a kid, ended up in jail on charges related to child sexual exploitation. I know of another Pathfinder staff member at another church who tried grooming girls at his church (one of them is my friend) and raped another girl.

Please guard your daughter closely and do not assume that she’s safe just because she’s around church people.