Vacation Bible School curriculum integrates Taiwanese culture into Biblical principles

From "Taiwan Church News" <[email protected]>
Date Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:54 +0800

3129 Edition

February 13~19, 2012

Church Ministry

Vacation Bible School curriculum integrates Taiwanese culture into Biblical 
principles

Reported by Chen Yi-hsuan

Written by Lydia Ma

Dong-Ning Presbyterian Church in Tainan held a “Vacation Bible School 
Curriculum Seminar” on February 11, 2012, The church invited Rev. Lu Jun-yi 
from East Gate Presbyterian Church in Taipei to speak about ways of integrating 
Taiwanese culture and Taiwanese stories into Biblical teachings.

“The Bible is the main lesson or feature while the Taiwanese stories serve as 
supporting background or analogy,” said Lu. He encouraged churches to create 
their own teaching materials for Vacation Bible School or Children’s Camp. He 
also said that as long as teachers pay attention to recent developments in 
Taiwanese literature, language, history, and philosophy, they will be able to 
find stories that can match their lesson theme or Bible story.                  
                                                                                
                                                                    

During the seminar, participants used East Gate Church’s children camp 
curriculum as reference and learned about renowned Taiwanese heroes in various 
disciplines such as literature, language, history, and philosophy and their 
amazing stories. Lu first gave an overview of the main theme of each lesson and 
its corresponding Bible passage before proceeding to tell these stories to 
highlight his main theme based on the Bible. All the themes in this curriculum 
are geared toward instilling good moral characters in children.

Responding to questions about where he gets his inspiration when writing this 
curriculum, Lu said that besides reading the Bible, he also visits bookstores 
frequently. It is in bookstores that he discovers many interesting local 
stories that also support Biblical principles. “I currently have at least 100 
stories that can be told!” he said, before underscoring that these stories are 
meant to support a biblical lesson in a concrete manner that children can 
grasp,                                                                          
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                

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