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Overview of
Teachers In Service

Welcome to the family of those who serve the Lord through the education of children of missionaries. Teachers In Service (TIS) is an evangelical, Christian organization that has three main areas of focus. The first area is to address professional needs of teachers and schools of missionary children. The second is to contribute to the development of college programs for prospective teachers of missionary children (MK teachers) that will enable them to begin teaching in a mission school immediately after graduation from college. The third is recruitment of MK teachers from working, former, and retired teachers and prospective teachers in college.

The awareness of need to address professional needs of teachers of missionary children was the catalyst that brought Teachers In Service (TIS) into existence in 1997. Meetings with mission school administrators, college administrators and faculty, web research, reading, e-mail dialog, travel to Kenya, Philippines, and Korea, and most important, discussions with teachers of missionary children all took place. Needs were identified and a variety of activities were set into motion to address those needs. In time it became apparent that with some schools there was a need for additional teachers.