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When students sign up for English classes, they need to be assessed in order to determine what level they should be in. When they are in a class that is a good fit for them, it helps them stay with us.
This role checks to ensure we are following Ministry Safe best practices for our children during the ESL School session.
When someone is new to this country, it's easy for them to be unsure about how to actually join us. So after they register for English class but have not come in person yet, you connect with them and help them come to class so they don't fall through the cracks.
ESL is our biggest way of serving our international friends. But without the behind the scenes administrative support, they suffer because they don't have the tools they need and the volunteers cannot serve them well. You help to solve this problem!
Facilitate Link’s ability to meet mercy related needs of students.
The internet is a prime way that we connect with and serve new international friends and volunteers. And yet there is much more we could do to serve and connect.
Our international friends come to ESL classes primarily to improve their English, so we want to try to offer quality ESL training to them. But providing quality ESL value is difficult with a volunteer teaching team. Your purpose is to help us provide that quality ESL without discouraging our volunteers. At the school level, you own adding English learning value.
Our ESL Schools are our most important venue for demonstrating the love of Christ to new international friends. It requires many different functions to support the small groups (ESL Classes) that meet. The members of the Operations Team provide that.
The ESL School Support Team is unique in that there are a variety of roles or “hats” that need to be worn if the School is going to be sustainable and students and volunteers are not going to fall through the cracks. Each team member will wear more than one hat and may take them on and off even during the course of one session of School on a given day.
Functions / goals the ESL School needs in order to love well. This does not include overall ESL ministry roles that cover both Schools such as mobilization, pedagogy, training, etc.
We all long to see our halls and classrooms filled with students. But before we run out to try and find new students, we need to steward well the ones God has already entrusted to us.
For many cultures, sharing food is what changes an experience from a business transaction to friendship. What is more, God is the source of all true hospitality, and we want to reflect Him.
You coordinate for the space for ESL School; you provide the place where we hope to see the Spirit work. This is not the same as the ESL School Host volunteer who actually sets it up. This role is purely administrative and could even be done remotely.
One of our goals for our ESL ministry is to create a context for friendship. Social events are a great context to do that.
Registration is not just an administrative necessity. It is important for several reasons: helps them have “skin in the game,” gives them the opportunity to engage in activities that are even more spiritually intentional, helps us know them, and helps them not fall through the cracks.
Come help us lead this popular ministry. In full disclosure: it won't bring you fame & fortune (well, not in this life...).
Provide leadership for either Link's Thursday morning or Thursday evening ESL school.