Following are some web pages with answers to questions we hear on a regular basis. • What does it means to be a teacher of children of missionaries? • Is teaching MKs real missionary service • Do MK teachers get paid a salary? It is wonderful that you are already considering teaching children of missionaries! Especially at...
A. Mission organizations may have different procedures for this. Items you absolutely cannot be without, take with you. Check with mission agencies with whom you might serve. Some organizations accumulate these kinds of things with other missionaries as well and put them in a large,...
The FES teacher plans and teaches a class at a learning center for Missionary Children (grades K-8). As part of the school year, the FES teacher will plan and teach a class for the Joint Learning Sessions. These take place two to four times a...
Sure, I would be happy to talk about it since It is such an issue. It is a conundrum: The need for teachers of children of missionaries to contribute to keeping missionaries on the field and on task, the desire of new teachers to go to...
A. Prospective MK teachers who have degrees in subjects that do not have counterparts in schools may still pursue becoming an MK teacher. However, they may have to rely on minor fields or general education courses to form the basis for a subject to teach. We...
(Debating whether or not teaching MKs is real missionary service? Yes it is!) Just where do these teachers teach? Some in "regular" schools and some in nontraditional situations. It is absolutely incredible that you are even thinking about becoming a missionary, let alone a teacher of missionary children (MKs). This is...
Project EdSend for College Students Who Want Assistance With Their Monthly Education Loan Repayment Debt and Missions A Missional Perspective on College Debt Sabrina Wong College Debt and Missions Taken from: https://urbana.org/go-and-do/missional-life/debt-and-missions [Please read a new, important newsletter about teaching MKs] Missionary statesman Ralph Winter writes in his classic essay, Re-consecration to a...
A. Typically you need a college degree (and a teaching credential/licence) to become a teacher of missionary children. There are circumstances, however, in which a school for children of missionaries is short of teachers and may recruit individuals who do not have a degree (or...
Co-op schools are initiated by parents getting together and teaching all the children. It may be an outgrowth of several families living close by and home schooling their own children. Parents may then develop a co-op situation where several parents team to teach the children....
Ravine Strategic Learning Center is a learning center in Mbeya, a small town in South Western Tanzania. Our Wycliffe Bible Translators team is comprised of about 15 units (families, couples, and singles) working in a cluster project to translate the Bible into thirteen local languages. Please contact Marie Christianson for...