THE KUKMIN DAILY

The Christian School Education Research Center (CSERC) will soon carry out a Christian school parents campaign aimed at encouraging school parents to nurture their children in the light of Christian values.

On April 18, Center Director Prof. Park Sang-jin (photo, leading prayer in a school parents' meeting) of Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary said, “Today many Christian school parents forget their rights and responsibilities for education, and raise their children according to the secular value system.” He emphasized, “Christian parents themselves should think and act according to the Christian worldview first, so that they are able to educate their children to think and live according to that worldview and God’s point of view.”

CSERC categorizes Christian school parents as four types: Those who focus only on church volunteering, those who attend church but have secular educational values, those who look at church and education as two separate matters, and those who endeavor to raise their children from God’s point of view.

CSERC has been training school parents since 2007 through its “Christian school parents class,” and so far some 1,000 parents have finished the program. The specific guidelines include: Set a time every day or once a week to hold family worship, give thanks to God on birthdays and anniversaries, pray as often as possible (for example, wake children in the morning not by yelling but by praying with your hands on the child), set up a prayer corner at home, read Christian classics and essays together with children, go volunteering or visit domestic pilgrimage sites, and keep the custom of dinnertime prayer.

Founded in November 2005 with the dream of a world diffused with God’s education, CSERC has served as a think tank for Korean Christian church education.

This coming June 5~6, CSERC will hold its first Christian school parents concerence at International Kwanglim Vision Land in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do.

Reporter Lee Saya (Isaiah@kmib.co.kr), with Yeara Ahn-Park (yap@kmib.co.kr)


Original Article in Korean:
자녀의 신앙보다 시험점수 중요시… 학부모가 변해야 다음세대가 산다: 기교연, 기독학부모운동 전개