SABAC Salvation Army Boys Adventure Corps

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SABAC (the Salvation Army Boys' Adventure Corps) was a short-lived venture set up by the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom as an attempt to create a Salvation Army equivalent of the Boys' Brigade or the Church Lads' Brigade.

The uniform consisited of a blue shirt with the SABAC patch sewn onto it and blue jeans.

In America, boys in first through eighth grade have enjoyed participating in The Salvation Army's Adventure Corps. The group uses a format similar to the Boy Scouts, emblem earning, and focuses on working with others, providing service within the community, learning about other cultures, meeting new people, and building friendships. Younger Adventure Corps members (grades first-fourth) are considered Explorers, whereas fifth through eighth grade boys are referred to as Rangers. However, whether Explorer or Ranger all Adventure Corps members have the opportunity to earn emblems in the areas of sports and athletics, health and safety, outdoor living, arts and crafts, Bible and The Salvation Army, the world around us, science and technology, and family and culture. Here is a list of Adventure Corps emblems. [3D art, artist, aviation, basketry, bird life, camping, citizenship, collector, communicator, cooking, customs and manners, earth knowledge, energy, family life, fire safety, fishing, first aid, fitness, friendship, gardening, God's love, health and body, hiking, individual sports, indoor games, insect world, leathercraft, life of Jesus, men of the Bible, multimedia, music, my corps, Olympics, parables, pets and animals, plays, railroads, reading, Salvation Army personalities, safety at home, scientist, space exploration, substance abuse, swimming, team sports, tracking, tree study, woodcraft, membership and first-fourth star] In addition to these emblems, boys in Adventure Corps have the opportunity to participate in service projects and attend summer camps.

A revised Adventure Corps program debuted in June 1997, along with a four volume leaders manual available in June 2000. Within this program, required training for leaders is heavily emphasized. Each leader must attend a mandatory leadership program that both informs him/her about the Adventure Corps curriculum, and teaches leadership strategies necessary for guiding young people through the program. Him or her you ask? Yes, it's true, in the updated Adventure Corps there are both male and female leaders, and older teens, in tenth and twelfth grade or above, are encouraged to assist those in leadership roles. This keeps older high schoolers involved in the program, and fosters future leadership. In fact, this apprentice-like position is in keeping with the new curriculum's goal, which is to make Adventure Corps more comprehensive, while at the same time providing at Boy Scout alternative that is more cost effective, flexible, and Biblically based. After its revision, the Adventure Corps program is structurally similar to Girl Guard and Sunbeam ministries