This episode of A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast is an interview with Min Hwang to explore her implementation of Charlotte Mason’s ideas in the children’s ministry of her church. Miss Mason reminds us of Christ’s command to “let the little children come to me and hinder them not,” and believed in the child’s inherent dignity and respect due to them as persons. Min has a special vision of how her method and subjects can make “Sunday school” a fertile growing time for these children to be introduced to and grow in Christ and His word.
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“But let the imaginations of children be stored with the pictures, their minds nourished upon the words, of the gradually unfolding story of the Scriptures, and they will come to look out upon a wide horizon within which persons and events take shape in their due place and in due proportion . By degrees, they will see that the world is a stage whereon the goodness of God is continually striving with the wilfulness of man; that some heroic men take sides with God ; and that others, foolish and headstrong, oppose themselves to Him. The fire of enthusiasm will kindle in their breast, and the children, too, will take their side, without much exhortation, or any thought or talk of spiritual experience.” (1/249)
“[T]heir Bible lessons should help them to realise in early days that the knowledge of God is the principal knowledge, and, therefore, that their Bible lessons are their chief lessons.” (1/251)
For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
A Manual of Clay-Modelling, Hermione Unwin
In Memoriam: A Tribute to Charlotte Mason
Diana Bauman’s Living Education Planner
Episode 122: Sharing CM with Non-Homeschoolers
Children Are Born Persons Article
DIY Weaving Loom (Video 1 of 5)
Charlotte Mason Poetry: Sunday Schools
Thank you for this timely discussion!
A few questions: Do you have the 1st-5th graders all in the same class? If different, are they studying the same Bible passages every week as the other school age classes? What would you do with the children who are younger than six? Follow the Bible rotation as well and just not require oral narrations?
Thank you for all of the ideas-I’m thinking of including foreign language as well. 🙂
I’m not on instagram…is there another way to contact Min? Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this podcast! I forwarded this episode to our Churches children’s director and we are going to get together and talk about the idea over coffee soon.
Abigail,
Thank you for sharing how this episode influenced you and may impact your own church community, also for being faithful to introduce another way to your own children’s ministry leader