Adventist Education in Lebanon is Teaching Syrian Refugee Children to Dance to Shakira

“For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.“ Romans 2:24. The Bourj Hammoud Adventist Learning Center (BHALC) is located in Beirut, Lebanon, and is one of seven educational institutions located in the Middle East and North Africa Union of Seventh-day Adventists (MENA). [1] This Adventist school “provides basic faith-based elementary education in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon, to Syrian refugee children between the ages of 6 and 12.” Recently, young students from this Adventist Learning Center danced to the song “Waka Waka” by Colombian Latin pop musician Shakira. [2] Shakira is a Grammy-award-winning artist who is famous for her belly dancing. We have completely lost sight of God’s purpose when it comes to educating children. So many of our schools around the world have strayed away from the evangelistic opportunity that Christian education provides. Today, Adventist education is teaching Syrian refugee children in the Arab country of Lebanon how to da