PCT Sunshine Camps for youth get ready to share the gospel and train the next generation

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September 26-October 2, 2011

General Assembly News

PCT Sunshine Camps for youth get ready to share the gospel and train the next 
generation

Reported by Sam Lee

Written by Lydia Ma

In its latest efforts to get youths involved in PCT’s “One-leads-One, New 
Doubling Movement”, PCT Youth Ministry Committee will do a census toward the 
end of September 2011 to get a scope of the number of teens who attend youth 
fellowships in every church. This census will help the committee plan better 
programs for its Sunshine Camp series, with activities such as exposure tours, 
spiritual formation classes, Life Education classes, and more.

A seminar in preparation for Sunshine Camp was held on September 23-25, 2011, 
at Hsieh-Wei Memorial Youth Camp in Puli led by PCT Youth Ministry Committee 
Secretary Etan Pavavalong. He explained that the census would provide an 
overview of active youths in all 27 PCT presbyteries and help the committee in 
much needed quantitative analysis as well as setting targets. This data will 
also be available to all churches through an internet database at a later date.

“Youths play important roles in PCT’s ‘One-leads-One, New Doubling Movement’ 
because they can invite their friends and classmates to Sunshine Camps. At 
these camps, there will be spiritual formation, life education, self-assessment 
seminars, and more,” said Etan Pavavalong. 

He added that what makes Sunshine Camps unique is that they aren’t huge camps 
boasting hundreds in attendance, but rather, they are very local camps held all 
across Taiwan, which allows each camp to really explore local history and come 
up with its own special features.

At this seminar, the topic of discussion was mainly how to teach youths to 
share the gospel with others and equip them to be channels of blessing to their 
peers by offering God their money, talent, time, etc.

The seminar also touched on designing a curriculum that would fit the needs of 
youths while staying sensitive to their different levels of understanding. 
Among the topics included in the curriculum were: Nuclear-free Taiwan, Taiwan’s 
diverse ecology, indigenous culture, the ministry of George Mackay, etc. It is 
likely that some of these lessons or camps will be held at Alangyi Trail, 
Smangus Indigenous Reservation, Orchid Island, etc.  

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