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  1. East Timor: Learning English, sharing Christ

    ... With so many young people in East Timor clamoring to learn English, tutoring was a natural bridge for the Church of the Nazarene to enter by offering a quality English program. According to team leader Warren Neal, they have just completed ...

    mfetting - 02/01/2012 - 7:36pm - 0 comments

  2. Reflections on God's call

    ... challenges and whatever your call is, it will surely involve learning new things, going out of your comfort zone and being put in situations ...

    gpottenger - 05/02/2012 - 10:56am - 0 comments

  3. Ask the Missionary: Language bloopers

    ... Brits in the class had less trouble with them, since British English – like French – still has a lot of formal syntax. But for Ameri ... until you’ve cried over it.” Thankfully, language learning isn’t usually about weeping; more often, it’s just laughing at ...

    dgbennett - 05/14/2012 - 11:00am - 0 comments

  4. Culture Shock: Surviving, Thriving and Helping

    ... their daughter, Emma. Josh is a pastor at KNU International English Church. Culture shock involves a great deal of changes ... (difficulty and homesickness). Transition (learning and hope).  New Balance (adjustment). ...

    mfetting - 02/02/2012 - 6:14am - 0 comments

  5. Missionary Profile: Dan and Janet Reinhart

    ... in the Philippines was easy -- everyone spoke some English! Here in Argentina, that is not the case, although many people ... now. Janet had nine years of French study, which makes learning Spanish a little easier, but not “instant”. Our deepest desire ...   Reinhart: We mentioned earlier that language learning is key to us in this assignment. After a month of attending Sunday ...

    mfetting - 03/12/2012 - 10:30am - 0 comments

  6. New teachers in Asia-Pacific play key role in establishing churches

    ... a long time prayer. Our first volunteer to help with our English program, Delinda Stafford, arrived on Tuesday!“ Delinda had been ... for the next 10 months.  She will be taking on the task of learning Tetum (the national language of East Timor) starting next week while ...

    mfetting - 02/01/2012 - 7:54pm - 0 comments

  7. A week in the life of a pastor

    ... languages are Tetum and Portuguese, but residents also speak English and Indonesian in work environments. At the hospital, Lodja learned ... Jesus, because he was the one who got really upset upon learning that Jonio and Lito were baptized," she said. The following day, ...

    mfetting - 01/31/2012 - 8:26pm - 0 comments

  8. Review: Footprints on the Door

    ... indigenous church leadership.   Gifted in language learning, he early worked to translate unwritten languages to bring God’s ... missionaries in Papua New Guinea. She also enjoyed being an English professor at Trevecca Nazarene University for 18 years. Her mission ...

    mfetting - 02/28/2012 - 8:36am - 0 comments

  9. Meals and more

    ... crusty bread.   The school library has books in French, English and Malagasy. Some of the books are in two languages. All of them are ... or other useful skills. As we leave, we see a class learning to make handbags from raffia.    The Center is funded through th ...

    dgbennett - 05/15/2012 - 11:16am - 0 comments

  10. Creating space for co-nourishment

    ... word retroalimentación has no sufficient equivalent in English theological discourse. The best I can do is pull apart alimentación ... among other disparate groups present at camp. Reciprocal learning takes place between adults and teens, wealthy and poor, brown and ...

    mfetting - 02/22/2012 - 4:43pm - 0 comments

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