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Pacific Island Bible Textbook One A teacher’s guide for years 1-4 of religious education in Seventh-day Adventist schools in the Pacific Islands. Cover design: Laura Koolik Signs Publishing Company 3485 Warburton Hwy Warburton, 3799 Victoria, Australia 2006 Copyright: While this text has been specifically designed for use within the Pacific and Papua New Guinea Seventh-day Adventist Primary Schools, the Writing Committee is aware that other Adventist school systems may well benefit. ?Such groups should feel free to copy, adapt and use as required. ?While there is no copyright on this text, the Writing Committee humbly request acknowledgement of our efforts in creating and producing this text in any subsequent copies, adaptations or productions. Pacific Island Writing Committee South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in producing a textbook/resource like this many people are involved behind the scenes. The members of the writing committee are mentioned in the next section and I wish to thank them for their enthusiastic approach to this huge amount of work. To their schools who arranged for them to travel away for up to 2 weeks each year for the last 3 years a big thankyou also. The South Pacific Division has contributed many dollars to this project and I thank them for their support and commitment to this project. A number of schools and teachers have trialled some of our early attempts of story plans and their comments and evaluations have been most helpful. The final year Sonoma Teacher Trainees contributed significantly to the Volume 10 story plans. Thank you all for your input. To the 100 plus teachers who took the time to respond to the initial survey that was sent out late in 2003, thank you for taking the time to respond. Your responses helped us form the basis for this project and helped us to remain focused on what the real needs were in the field, especially in isolated schools, many operating with un