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ust imagine...all-day Bible study that keeps youths’ attention and offers concrete faith-formation. Have I got your attention? This sort of Bible study with a difference is a distinctive of our adventurebased SUCAMPS. Here’s an example… Our July winter camps looked at the story of the fat king from Judges 3. The story was a perfect attraction to a bunch of rambunctious campers (kind of gross but definitely keeps your attention).
BY PAUL HUMPHREYS
South Island Camps Facilitator, SUNZ
Throughout the camp our team was embracing the approach of using these questions to frame our Bible engagement experiences: Why did people find this important to write it down? What was going on in their world at the time? Why did they feel the need to put it into words? However, as we dived into the story the first time, we read the story and then walked away. We just left it. We didn’t process or debrief. We just ‘Let the Experience Speak For Itself‘. Later that morning we asked what was going on in their world at the time. Time for a quick history lesson: the Israelites were really good at making the same mistakes. Over and over again they went through the same cycle... occupation by a foreign power...crying out
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AS WE DIVED INTO THE STORY THE FIRST TIME, WE READ THE STORY AND THEN WALKED AWAY. WE JUST LEFT IT. WE DIDN’T PROCESS OR DEBRIEF. WE JUST ‘LET THE EXPERIENCE SPEAK FOR ITSELF‘. 8 www.sunz.org.nz
