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>July 5~July 11, 2010

Aborigine college ministry tackles hot issues at exciting summer  camp

>Reported by Chen Wei-chien

>Written by Lydia Ma

With the start of summer vacations finally here, a lot of summer  camps are 
sprouting across

the nation. Aborigine college students are spending this summer  exploring 
important issues

relevant to their lives and faith. They’re also taking time  to visit Aborigine 
reservations in

Nantou to get a grasp of challenges facing Aborigines who live in  remote 
reservations.

A youth camp was held at Central Bunun Presbytery’s Kalibuan  Church from July 
1~4, 2010,

co-sponsored by PCT Campus Ministry Committee and Indigenous  Ministry 
Committee. More

than 80 college-age Aborigine youth attended this camp.

According to Campus Ministry Committee Secretary Rev. Tan Ho-Tek,  this year’s 
camp

focused on the book of Romans and its application to everyday  life. Speakers 
sought to

increase biblical literacy among youth and generate discussion on  a few hot 
issues. They

hoped that college youth would learn to reason clearly on  important hot issues 
of the times,

>such as sex.

“Our hope is to get away from dogmatic approaches when  training our youth 
because that’ll

only make church more repulsive to them,” said one pastor. He  added that since 
sex is a gift

from God that must be handled with care, it’s imperative to  teach youth about 
their relationship

with God and tackle problems with biblical perspectives.

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