I am serving in children ministry in my church, and they have a “men and women” meeting yesterday to discuss about how to conduct the “men and women meeting” on 15 July for Pri 6 students. When i heard that Pri 6 students have BGR (boy girl relationship) problems sometime ago, i was shocked… They are so young and they have this problem already? Last time when i am in Pri 6, my classmates will talk about it but we seldom go out together. Now with the media and surrounding environment, they even went go to meet stranger from internet. Oh my goodness, do their parents know about it?
Actually i wanted to give it a miss, cause i think there are nothing important as they can’t do much at a young age. But lead me there with nothing else to do. I learn alot from the session and would like to share with you all.
The session really speak to me about my own problems… I am serving in the ministry but there are always this voice that say i am not contributing enough to the ministry. One of the teacher reminds me that we are together and we can talk to one another when we have problems. We are in a ministry that is important as this is the final stage in their primary school life before they go into another phase. We create values for them to let them know that they are worthwhile in this world. That is a an extremely great ministry to be in…
The second thing that stuck me is about obedience. The story goes like this: When one if the teacher was young, he once saw a parent and child on the bus. The child was jumping around, not sitting down, but the parent did nothing. suddenly, the bus break and the boy hit the metal casing (last time use to collect coins). When the teacher got of the bus, his mum told him that accident was not the driver fault, neither was the boy fault. It is the parent (who did not discipline the boy) fault. We should obey our parents as they can see further then us. Those who are not obedient are fearful, they fear of being control, so they do things against their parents. They fear of lack, so they certain things. They fear of no freedom, so they sneak out of house when their parents are not at house. They fear that their friends isolate them, so they learn smoking and what their friend is doing. I don’t know is it true for you, i find is quite true for me. (not smoking of cause) but most of the time we do something bad/ something that we are not suppose to do becasue we are fearful.
For the “men and women meeting” i find it interesting and looking forward to it. God is really doing things in our church. During the discussion, many problems surface out. kids are curious about their body and the opposite sex more and more early due to the influence of the media and environment. This also prevents BGR to distract them from concentrating in their PSLE. Not only will it discuss about BGR but most important it will discuss what they are in christ, so that they know their values and not do harm to their body.
Interested to see the kids discovering about themselves through the debate session to let them think about should they or not. The topics are:
- Should they start a relationship at such a young age
- Should they meet up with strangers online? What should you do?
Believe that will be awesome workshop
