Taiwan Church News 3363 Edition August 8 - 14, 2016 Church Ministry To Build Up Fellowship And Care For Community, Basketball Game As A Media Uniting Aboriginal YouthReported by Chiu Kuo-rong On August 1, hundreds of aboriginal youth from around 60 churches of Tayal presbytery gathered at the gymnasium of National Ilan University to kick off the 29th round of the renown tribal basketball game - "Tayal YouthCup". Rev. Tuluan Muni, commissioner of youth ministry of Tayal presbytery and pastor of Maliguang Church, expressedthat this basketball game played an important role of reconciliation trying to tear down the parochial barriers favoring denominational divisions long established within Tayal tribe. The aboriginal Tayal youth, no matter from which denomination he or she came, is always welcomed to join this renown basketball game, said Rev. Tuluan Muni. The goal of "Tayal Youth Cup", through annual basketball games with dynamic interaction and mutual acquaintance, is to restore among aboriginal youth the Tayal culture of cooperating in team work and sharing resources, and encourage them to concern kinds of social issues that would endanger Tayal community, remarked Rev. Tuluan Muni. Rev. Tuluan Muni took the government's dangerous project of planing to build Kao-tai Dam near Maliguang tribe ina near future as a live example, which desperately required the whole Tayal community and their youth to give their grave concern. And this annual basketball game will be the best platform to consolidate the tribe and next generation to face the challenges ahead! Translated by Peter Wolfe |