Our Bible curriculum is our Authorized King James Version Bible and our Chinese Union Bible. The KJV is our authority; the Chinese Union Bible is the best Chinese version we can get, but we do not believe it holds the whole truth. We only use the Bible as we want to focus on God’s words but not men’s ideas.
During our morning Bible time (Mon to Fri), I will read a whole chapter directly from the Bible to our children. If the chapter is too short, I will read more than one. I started from Genesis 1, and now we are at Proverbs 28. The children (except the baby) are expected to sit still like they do in the Sunday service, so this is like a training section for the Sunday Service too! We do not use children Bibles at Bible time as they are not God’s words. We want them to know God’s words in English only come from the KJV Bible. That’s the Words they should live by. Children Bibles can be used as leisure readings. Although they cannot fully understand what I read to them, they get a whole picture of who God is. They hear every word strictly from the Bible.
Besides Bible reading, I will ask them to follow me reading a passage sentence by sentence. The same Bible passage will be used for one to two weeks. Tiffany and Odelia can usually memorize that passage by that time. We encourage memorizing a whole Bible passage rather than just one Bible verse, as the meaning of a Bible verse can be easily altered when taken out from the context.
At the end of the morning Bible time, we will take turn to pray. Monday will start with Tiffany, our eldest. Tuesday will start with Odelia, our 2nd eldest, and so on.
Evening Bible time is lead by daddy. All our children will have a KJV Bible as their 6 year old birthday present. And they are expected to bring that with them during Bible time with daddy. Daddy will choose a book to study with them, a few verses per night. And the children take turns to read. Now we are studying the book of Romans. And we sing a hymn to end this section.
Every Saturday morning, we have our family Bible sharing time. Each of us will take turns standing in front of others to read a Bible passage and share the things we learned from that passage. We have big papers with Bible passages written on it. Even our two-year-old loves to choose a Bible passage and use a long wooden stick pointing at the words while we help her read them out. She will lead us a song after her “presentationâ€. =)