English Teaching as Christian Mission

English Teaching as Christian Mission
Author: Donald Snow
Publisher: Herald Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-04-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780836191585

Recent decades have seen an ever-increasing number of Western Christians going abroad as English teachers. Many of these teachers are going to countries that are not very receptive to other forms of Western Christian mission. Some Western Christians view English teaching primarily as a means to gain access to "closed" countries for the purpose of evangelistic outreach. Other Western Christians see it mainly as a form of social service. Snow’s well-thought-out details of how to bear witness, engage in ministry, serve the poor, contribute to peace, and build bridges of understanding between churches clearly show the special role of Christian mission that Christian English teachers can have.

Teaching English in Church: A Practical Guide to Teaching English as a Foreign Or Second Language to Immigrants, with a Focus on English for Chris

Teaching English in Church: A Practical Guide to Teaching English as a Foreign Or Second Language to Immigrants, with a Focus on English for Chris
Author: Louisa Walsh
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2019-03-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781798739631

A practical 'how to' guide to help you teach English to foreign language communities from your local church. Learn how to: - set up, publicise and run an English teaching programme, create lessons that work for bible-based or general classes, teach English to beginners and English for everyday life, and access further lesson resources. Ideal for existing teachers, volunteers or those already involved in church-based ESL/EFL programmes. A must-have resource if you are looking for practical, ready-to-implement ideas for teaching and serving your local community.Created by TEFL professionals with a heart for sharing the gospel.

Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue

Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Author: Mary Shepard Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2009-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135837848

The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual perspectives. About half identify themselves as "Christian" while the others identify themselves as Buddhist, atheist, spiritualist, and variations of these and other faiths. What is common for all the authors is their belief that values have an important place in the classroom. What they disagree on is whether and how spiritual values should find expression in learning and teaching. This volume dramatizes how scholars in the profession wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education. To sustain this conversation, the book is structured dialogically. Each section includes a set of position chapters in which authors explain their views of faith/pedagogy integration, a set of chapters by authors responding to these positions while articulating their own views on the subject, and discussion questions to engage readers in comparing the positions of all the authors, reflecting on their own experiences and values, and advancing the dialogue in fresh and personal directions.

Teaching English in Missions

Teaching English in Missions
Author: Jan Edwards Dormer
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645080722

English teaching is common in missions today. However, there has been relatively little discussion on what constitutes effectiveness in English ministries. This book aims to foster such discussion. It first addresses issues of concern in English ministries and then suggests criteria for effectiveness, considerations in teacher preparation, and models for the teaching of English in missions.

Understanding Christian Mission

Understanding Christian Mission
Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441242147

This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address the global church and offers a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today. Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation. He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission. Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the nations.

Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers

Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers
Author: Kitty Purgason
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645080587

This handbook is for people in the field of English language teaching who are looking for practical ways to be both committed followers of Jesus and ethical TESOL professionals. What do such teachers actually do in the classroom? What materials do they use? How do they relate to their students and colleagues in and outside the classroom? How can they treat students as whole people, with spiritual and religious identities? How can they set a high bar for ethical teaching? Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers has grown out of Kitty Purgason’s experience as a Christian seeking to follow the Great Commandment and the Great Commission, as a practitioner with a deep concern for excellence and integrity, and as a teacher trainer with experience in many parts of the world.

Missionary English Teaching

Missionary English Teaching
Author: Derek J. Kresge
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2008
Genre: English language
ISBN:

Teaching English as a missionary has become a significantly larger field in the recent years. These missionaries are confronted with a unique set of circumstances in which they perform their service. As English teachers, these missionaries are faced with the dilemma of teaching as best they can while at the same time living as followers of Christ in cultures that may be opposed to Christ as well as to the Western culture. This thesis unwraps the issues involved and discusses possible solutions to the problems that present themselves for missionary English teachers.

Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue

Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Author: Mary Shepard Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135837856

This volume critically examines how English language teaching professionals wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education.

Introducing Christian Mission Today

Introducing Christian Mission Today
Author: Michael W. Goheen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830895434

Michael Goheen gives us a full-scale introduction to mission studies today in its biblical, theological and historical dimensions. Goheen covers the full horizon of major issues in mission, including its global, urban and holistic contexts. This text shows how the missional church encounters the pluralism of Western culture and global religions.