Educator Resources for “Return of the White Book: True Stories of God at Work in Southeast Asia”

Click on each link for handwriting pages, workbook pages, background information, and websites pertinent to each part of Return of the White Book. If you have any ideas  for further Resources, or if you find a dead link, please contact rebecca@hiddenheroesmissionarystories.com.

NOTE: To download coloring pages for each chapter, go to the Christian Focus website page for Hidden Heroes #4 Return of the White Book, and scroll down to Associated Media.

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Chapters 1 and 2  Keeper of the Stories / Waiting for the Pale Brother

Click here for a website that shows pictures of and describes the exotic fruits in Chapter 1.

Activity page for ch 2 — Making Clothes

HH4 chs 1-2 lower elem hw practice Matt 4-10

HH4 chs 1-2 upper elem hw practice Matt 4-10

Further study for older students: Research stories of Creation, the Fall, and the Flood in different cultures. Compare and contrast them with the stories in the Bible, especially regarding whether or not there is hope in the stories.

The top picture below shows some Karen children from about a hundred years ago. The bottom picture shows a Burman family from about the same time. The lighter skin of the Burmans was one reason they thought of themselves as superior to the Karens.

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Chapters 3, 4, and 5   A Fire Inside Me / Why Have You Come? / Is It the Lost Book of Yuwah?

Click here for a website that gives the complete text of Adoniram Judson’s “Creed in Twelve Articles.”

Activity page for chs 3 and 4 — Map of Southeast Asia

Activity page for chs 3 and 4 — Study the Map

HH4 chs 3-5 lower elem hw practice Rom 10-14

Further study for older students: Research the history of the Burmese persecution of the Karen people, which continues to this day.

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Chapters 6 and 7  More! More! / The Guardian of the Book

Click here to see the 1718 edition of the Book of Common Prayer that may have been the same edition that the Guardian of the Book carried.

Activity page for ch 6 — Buddhism vs Christianity

HH4 chs 6-7 lower elem hw practice Isaiah 52-7

HH4 chs 6-7 upper elem hw practice Isaiah 52-7

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Chapters 8, 9, and 10  Funeral Battle in Chikku / Sleepless Delight in Chikku / Farewell to Teacher Boardman

Activity page for ch 10 — Who Was David Brainerd?

Activity page for ch 10 — The Disease Called Consumption

Activity page for ch 10 — The Consumption Timeline

HH4 chs 8-10 lower elem hw practice Matt 11-28

HH4 chs 8-10 upper elem hw practice Phil 1-20

Further study for older students: Research funeral customs in different cultures. What do they express about that culture?

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Chapters 11, 12, and 13   Missionary to the Wild Men / Wild Men Clear the Way /  The End of the Reign of the Nats

HH4 chs 11-13 lower elem hw practice Isaiah 40-3

Further study for older students—Choose one of the missionaries who was inspired by David Brainerd to go at the risk of his life to take the gospel to a people group who had never heard. Find out what he accomplished and how his own life inspired others.

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Chapters 14 and 15   A Battle of the Spirits / Singing the Battle

Activity page for Ch 14 — Rescue without War

HH4 chs 14-15 lower elem hw practice 2 Chron 20-22

HH4 chs 14-15 upper elem hw practice 2Chron 20-22

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Chapter 16 and 17   The Village of Long-Necks / The Wilderness Blossomed Like a Rose

Activity page for ch 17 — How Did They Change?

HH4 chs 16-17 lower elem hw practice Isaiah 35-1