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Friendship Partner
Support / Behind the scenes
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English
International researchers (Augusta University)
International military students (Fort Eisenhower)
Your hobbies & interests (cooking, sports, book club, knitting, camping, etc.)
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ESL School Facility Coordinator
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.
ESL School Student Placement
It can be scary for our new students when they first come to class. Even those who are confident need to be connected relationally and set up for success. You help them in this way.
All Link Roles that Interact with Internationals
Any Link role that interacts with an international has a responsibility to honor Christ and serve well with other members of Link.
ESL School Ministry Teams Coach
Provide coaching support to ESL Class Ministry Teams in their accomplishment of the Ministry Team 5 goals: prayer, English, relationship, spiritual intentionality, and coordination.
ESL School Hospitality-Food
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.
ESL School Welcome Team
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.
ESL School Teaching Coach
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.
ESL Online Content Manager
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.
ESL School Student Care Resourcer
Facilitate Link’s ability to meet mercy related needs of students.
ESL School Admin Assistant
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!
ESL School Teaching Tools Organizer
Our in-class volunteers are juggling a lot. You can help them be more effective in training their ESL students by organizing teaching materials for them.
ESL School Assessment Coordinator
Student English assessments are important because they help students be in the class where they are most likely to succeed. But there are more students than one assessor can handle. You help orchestrate assessors to meet student needs and ultimate show them the grace of God in this way.
New Contact Integration
Help new contacts get integrated into Link as they want to. Without someone taking ownership for new contacts, they easily fall through the cracks, their needs are not met, and we miss the opportunity to connect with them.
ESL School Student Resources Table
Many of our ESL students will read something that they may be hesitant to talk about. We want to provide a resource table to bless them spiritually and in other ways as well.
Lead a Bible study for an English beginner
Sometimes new international friends express interest in studying the bible and we just need someone to patiently look at scripture with them. They may want to look at scripture as an end in itself or they may be interested in or open to using the bible to learn English. Your goal is to lead a one on one or small group bible discussion in English, for one or more of our international friends who is interested in both the bible and English improvement.
Link Wide Prayer Facilitator
Prayer is our first and main work for everyone, but it helps to have someone who thinks only for this and works to nurture more prayer for Link as a whole.
ESL Student Attendance
Student attendance is part of a basic measure of health of our school and enables other aspects such as caring for classes, coaching volunteers & students, and a school rewards program.
Partner and Volunteer Mobilization
We need 100-200 volunteers to love well in light of all the internationals among us. The Spirit has a plan where the gifts of believers are matched with the needs around us. You can help us find those fits by mobilizing volunteers. Watching the Spirit work is a job to them and us!
Giving welcome brief to international military students
It is critical to connect with the International Military Students (IMSs) as soon as they arrive in order to connect relationally and make the most of their short time here. The best way we know how to do that is to be a part of their reception briefing and Fort Gordon graciously allows us to do that.
Link Prayer Coordinator
Prayer is our first and main work. You can help grow prayer in and for Link through behind the scenes service.
ESL School Welcome Team Leader
The Assistant School Leader for Operations owns the operation of the morning or evening ESL School (not both). So when it comes to any question about running the school, the buck stops here (e.g. you may be the only Link staff available at times).
ESL Student Interests Steward
Our international friends who sign up for English often indicate interest in other things such as Bible study, social events, and more. Your role is to help them get connected to those opportunities.
ESL School – Help Them Get There (Remote Welcomer)
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 School Student Books
Our ESL teachers & students need a book to give structure to their language journey. You help provide that by selling and briefly explaining the English books to them.
Friendship Partner
One of our greatest opportunities and the greatest needs we can meet is just to be a friend. This takes humility and availability.
Show hospitality to international military student(s) during holiday
International military students here for training love to experience US culture, and during the holiday breaks. Inviting them into your life during the holidays can be a powerful experience for them, and a great way to show them the grace of God through serving with no strings attached.
Take some internationals shopping
Many of our new international neighbors need to go shopping but don’t have a car or the knowledge of the Augusta area. You can show them Christ’s love by taking them to the store, being with them there, and taking them back.
Child Care Leader for the Day
This role checks to ensure we are following Ministry Safe best practices for our children during the ESL School session.
ESL Reading Assessments
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.
Friendship Partner for international military students
International military leaders come to the fort for training and would love to have a local friend. As a Friendship Partner, you are committing to making yourself available as a friend – to offer friendship and hospitality. You are not committing to an unusual investment of time, money, or other resources. Being a Friendship Partner is not the same as hosting an exchange student or sponsoring a foreign visitor. It is friendship, plain and simple.
Conversation Cafe Host
So many of our new neighbors from other countries need a place to find friends. You can provide that environment by hosting a Conversation Cafe in your home.