Volunteer Opportunities
ESL School Welcome Team
Ministry area
ESL Welcome Team
Gifts / interests
Administration, Care, Cooking, Discipleship, English language, Family/Children, Hosting, Leadership, Outdoors/Active, Planning, Prayer, Social, Social Media, Strategy, Talking, Teaching, Technology, Using Hands, Writing/Editing
Time investment
varies depending on your role(s)
Purpose statement
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.
Summary of goals
- Rely on God not ourselves
- Pray during classes (like Spurgeon’s furnace)
- Pray outside of school time
- Help the school improve by regularly writing questions / suggestions on your role
- Find your own sub for permanent roles when you will be gone. Best if they can shadow you weeks prior if possible.
- Be familiar with Link vision, mission and how ESL fits in
- Be familiar with ESL school info on website for students. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions about the content there.
- Be familiar with your role(s) description on the Link team website. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions about the content there.
- Feel free to seek help for your role from other School Support Team members. Because of the fluid and complex nature of the support team responsibilities, sometimes you may help each other with your roles (even though only one is the “owner”).
See the “Serves alongside” section below to see the roles that are on this team.
Details
Click here for detailed instructions and additional information.
Click here for the checklist
Click here for training
Prerequisites
Fill out volunteer application form (see "apply" in the main menu), Be approved as an in-person volunteer