By Parijat Bhattacharjee
BROCKTON- NuSkool, a bible study group run by
Messiah Baptist Church is described as “a thinking person’s bible
study.”
The students are in two groups based on their ages:
6 to 17 years old in one group, and 18 and above in another. The bible study
group meets on Thursdays.
The participants discuss biblical events, and also
focus on current events, while connected to the bible, said Miles Jackson, 58, who
is the administrator of Messiah
Baptist Church.
Jackson is very active in the church, helping out
in the youth department, singing in the church and leading the audio-visual
department. He also works with the students from Stonehill College for a
tutoring program.
He started attending the church when he was 11
years old. “I kind of grew up in the church,” he said.
Rev. Michael W. Walker, the pastor of the Messiah
Baptist Church, who has been part of the church for 10 years, does most of the
teaching for the adult classes of NuSkool, while Linda Ross
teaches classes for the youth.
The reverend “had the vision to get the kids
together in the late afternoon to have a new school type bible study,” Jackson
said.
That vision was of a place where the teacher would
communicate with the children on their level, making it easier for the students
to understand. The bible study eventually expanded to include adults.
The purpose of calling the program NuSkool was to
make it modern, so children could relate and identify with it since many
“abbreviate a lot of things now,” said Jackson
When Walker teaches it, he talks about current
events through the bible. “The great thing is for people to understand what is
happening now in correlation to the bible,” said Jackson.
NuSkool has been going on for seven to eight years,
with the adult class growing bigger. A lot of times the bible study is also
attended by members of other churches, said Jackson.
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