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 Youth
Reported 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 Youth Cup”.
Rev. Tuluan Muni, commissioner of youth ministry of Tayal presbytery and pastor of Maliguang Church, expressed that 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 in a 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
The 29th round of the renown aboriginal basketball game, “Tayal Youth Cup”, was kicked off at at the gymnasium of National Ilan University on August 1.
Photo by Chiu Kuo-rong
