ON CAMPUS Becoming accessible has been a huge goal of ours for the past year and half. We wanted to be able to make our class easily available to our students so they don’t haveContinue reading
Tag: ESL
Just Showing Up
This summer we had the opportunity to run our life coaching program in the public schools for 47 refugee and immigrant students. Our typical program includes monthly extra-curricular activities (Bowling, Ice Skating, Pee Wee GolfContinue reading
Summer Days with Refugees
This week began our Summer School Refugee Life Coaching class. It was great to be able to speak into the lives of 36 students as we took over their English Language Development (ELD) class forContinue reading
Big Day of Giving
On May 5th we are participating in the Big Day of Giving. We are using this opportunity to raise the funds for an important program Raquel and I have started. We have just begun ourContinue reading
Why They are Here
ESL has provided the starting point for sharing of one’s story that goes beyond the classroom and the chalkboards. Next Monday my students who are refugees from the Middle East, are showing off their EnglishContinue reading
What do Nicaragua, Superbowl, Life-Coaching, and ESL Have in Common?
We have had a crazy start to the new year. We have packed about six months of activities into January. Right now I am sitting in the command center to help find missing children atContinue reading
The Problem with Nomads
The Somali people are predominately a nomadic people group, which means one thing, they move around a lot. This creates an interesting problem for us. We say goodbye a lot. We work very hard toContinue reading
December Newsletter
We have had an incredible three months in this last quarter of 2013. We have been able to be involved in some incredible ministry, witness incredible things, be a part of some incredible training, seenContinue reading
Friends from California
Wow, it has been almost a week since our friends from the United States left and I am still recovering. We have had an awesome week and it has been great to hang out withContinue reading
A Fool’s Hope
I asked my students the other day to write a paper about themselves. My students range from Somali guys who have been in Kenya for years to guys who just came from Somalia a coupleContinue reading