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From CBN. With all the talk about issues between parents and America’s public schools, students across Pennsylvania are learning about Jesus and the Bible, thanks to the unique approach of Bible2School.
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Kori Pennypacker, the CEO of Bible2School, told CBN News, “Bible2School is a 40-year-old nonprofit organization and we equip parents, moms, dads, grandparents to teach the Bible to public school kids during their school day – that means typically over lunch and recess.”
Kids are bussed to churches or other locations during these periods to learn Bible lessons before heading back to their public school classroom. …
You might wonder how Bible2School can make this happen during the school day.
“There is something called the Release Time Court Rulings, and this was from back in 1914 when the Bible actually used to be a reader in school,” Pennypacker said. “Everybody had one. Think Little House in the Prairie. And then, around that time period, early 18- or 19-hundreds, they took the Bible out of school, but they had these release time rulings that said you can release kids from school, maybe one hour a day; different in different states, at different times.” …
Parent and fellow volunteer Meredith Steidler helped start a program in her own community. For her, in addition to Bible lessons, the classes can help counter the negative messages culture sends to the children.
Steidler explained, “They’re just inundated with so many lies and so many worldviews and so many hard things that they might even be going through themselves. And they get to come once a week to hear about how they’re loved, how they have purpose, and it’s just fun to be able to do that with them. And it’s amazing to be able to speak truth over the lies that culture is trying to give them.” …
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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: Ben White on Unsplash)