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    Stories and Storytelling Master Guide and Pathfinder Leadership Award Lecture

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    Stories are an integral part of Filipino culture and how we learn from a young age. The Bible itself is full of stories that teach us lessons and help us understand God. As Master Guides and teachers of youth, storytelling is a powerful tool we can use to reach young people and help them learn life lessons and principles from the Bible, just as Jesus learned from stories as a child. Telling biblical stories to children in a way they can understand helps parents and teachers instill God's laws from an early age.

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    Stories are an integral part of Filipino culture and how we learn from a young age. The Bible itself is full of stories that teach us lessons and help us understand God. As Master Guides and teachers of youth, storytelling is a powerful tool we can use to reach young people and help them learn life lessons and principles from the Bible, just as Jesus learned from stories as a child. Telling biblical stories to children in a way they can understand helps parents and teachers instill God's laws from an early age.

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    Stories are an integral part of Filipino culture and how we learn from a young age. The Bible itself is full of stories that teach us lessons and help us understand God. As Master Guides and teachers of youth, storytelling is a powerful tool we can use to reach young people and help them learn life lessons and principles from the Bible, just as Jesus learned from stories as a child. Telling biblical stories to children in a way they can understand helps parents and teachers instill God's laws from an early age.

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    Stories and Storytelling

    Master Guide and Pathfinder Leadership Award Lecture

    Al Jay Mejos
    AIIAS MG Club
    Manila Center MG Club
    MSU Sultan MG Club

    Stories are an integral part of our lives. We Filipinos are born, grow up and get old in a cultural
    environment where stories are an ever present companion wherever we go. When we wake up in the
    morning we read stories from our devotionals that inspire us to live another day with the Lord, stories
    from other parts of the world or simply local stories from the one leading the morning watch. For other
    people, they wake up to the stories on printed paper from yesterday, if not radio or television, which is
    full of stories from news to the lives of politicians and show business people, if such differences exist.

    Looking well and deep, we will find that we could never live without stories like we would never survive
    without friends. If we have known Robinson Crusoe, a fiction of a story about a man who got shipwrecked
    in an uninhabited island all alone except for his dog, the deepest burden in his being alone is having
    nobody to talk to, having nobody to share his feelings and ideas with that he actually thought he might
    just forget how to speak and go insane. What did he do? He talked to his dog.

    There is a reason for that, God created us social creatures. Creatures with the capacity and gift to think,
    talk and tell our stories.

    The Bible itself is full of stories, stories from the past from which we learn how the world and us came to
    be and understand the consequences of sin so that we ourselves would become wise not to commit it,
    and we also have stories of things to come, that we may know what we have to do and what to expect.

    As Master Guides and incoming Master Guides, we have a divine commission to be teachers to our
    younger brothers and sisters in the Church, and even to the little ones that God has given to our care in
    our clubs, in our churches and districts, and also in our families.

    Storytelling is a very powerful tool that we can employ in reaching out to the young, the youth and the
    young-at-heart. The young Christ himself learned to understand the beauty and the mercy of God from
    the Scripture truths taught to him through the stories of Moses, David, Abraham and the Prophets. His
    mother taught him the values of obedience, humility and hard work from the stories of Samuel, Job and
    Ruth. These are the very same Bible stories that we tell our little ones today, the very same Bible stories
    that were taught to Christ hundreds of years in the past and yet they carry the same message and the
    same power to enrich the young as we help them prepare for life and for heaven. If Christ learned and
    became very knowledgeable of the Scriptures that way, so can the little kids of today too [Education
    (1903) p.185].

    In all that men have written, where can be found anything that has such a hold upon the heart,
    anything so well adapted to awaken the interest of the little ones, as the stories of the Bible?
    In these simple stories may be made plain the great principles of the law of God. Thus by
    illustrations best suited to the child's comprehension, parents and teachers may begin very
    early to fulfill the Lord's injunction concerning His precepts: "Thou shalt teach them diligently
    unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in the thine house, and when thou
    walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Deuteronomy
    6:7. [Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students (1913) ch. 24 p. 181; Education (1903) p.
    185]

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