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Connecting Students to the Community

If you\’ve ever moved to a new city, you know the feeling of starting over. Creating new routines and finding new connections are a normal part of adjusting to a new place. However, for someone learning English, making those connections can take much longer and be much more difficult to

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Making a Welcoming Classroom Environment for Your Students

As Christians using English ministry to love our international neighbors, we know that it\’s vital to create a classroom environment that feels welcoming and safe. Our students are entering a classroom that mostly or only uses English, is staffed by native speakers, and possibly is even in a church. All of these

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Key 3: Focus on Learner Needs

This 3 part series is an excerpt from the the Institute of Cross Cultural Training’s “Reach Out With English” training and has been shared with ICCT’s permission. Three Important-and Often Neglected Keys to an Effective ESL Ministry Key 3: Learner Needs When planning a Sunday School curriculum, we often begin

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Key 2: Quality Teaching

This 3 part series is an excerpt from the the Institute of Cross Cultural Training’s “Reach Out With English” training * and has been shared with ICCT’s permission. Three Important-and Often Neglected Keys to an Effective ESL Ministry Key 2: Quality Teaching When the need for ESL teachers in our

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Key 1:Cultural Understanding

This 3 part series is an excerpt from the the Institute of Cross Cultural Training’s “Reach Out With English” training and has been shared with ICCT’s permission. Three Important-and Often Neglected Keys to an Effective ESL Ministry Key 1: Cultural Understanding In making your decision to become an ESL teacher,

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Adapting An Ancient Practice

In my previous articles I’ve discussed various aspects of prayer. In this article I want to encourage a particular prayer practice to you. It is one that is not new, it is in fact very old, but it might be new to you. It was new to me several years

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