The KW regional gathering started with two of us who shared the task of phoning area churches and ministries to enquire if they had anyone interested in ESL ministry whom we could use as a contact person by email. We sent an email to introduce ourselves (using BCC for privacy) to all of our collected […]
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A note from Darcy MacCallum who presented this matter to us at Gathering III: Great News: Bill 124, the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, has passed! Thank you for your help in promoting this significant piece of legislation. It is an important (and landmark) step toward facilitating the smooth entry of newcomers into the […]
Season’s Greetings! We’ve received some wonderful ESL Christmas ideas. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED!! Make sure you read over all the great ideas to see how various churches are celebrating with their ESL learners. We are still in need of more ideas so hurry to send them in. We want to share even […]
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Czeching-in
At Gathering III we had prayed for two of the participants, Len and Russ, who were going to be involved in an evangelistic English Weekend in the Czech Republic. Below is a brief report of that event: Thank you for your prayers regarding the evangelistic english family weekend November 16-19,2006. There were 180 people altogether […]
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By Greg Thomson, Version .9, December 2006 LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE FIRST DIMENSION For school-educated people around the world, understanding language learning from a socio-cultural viewpoint requires quite a change in thinking.[1] So get ready! In fact, I find the issues in this dimension of language learning much more difficult to grasp initially than those connected […]
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Two Ways to Live
From January to March at our church, Leaside Bible Chapel, we ran a course similar to Alpha called, “Christianity Explored“. It follows a similar format to Alpha but the discussions center around a walk through the Gospel of Mark. Rico Tice of All Souls Church in London, UK introduces the discussions on DVD. It’s an […]