• Significant in God’s global plan in your second half
    12/09/2008 7:37 am

    Our God loves to surprise and stretch His children. When it was mentioned to me after eight years of retirement from thirty years of full time teaching that I should consider going to the Philippines and doing a stint in an International school for the children of Missionaries, I gave an emphatic no. Now in August 2008 I have come back for a second year.
  • Running the race
    04/07/2008 12:49 am

    Eric Liddell’s life inspired the film, “Chariots of Fire,” released in 1981, winning four academic awards. His life began in China, born in 1902 in Tientsin, the son of missionary parents. He died in 1945 in a Japanese internment camp at Weihsien a few months before the end of the Second World War. What made Eric Liddell so great?
  • Language learning - Why Bother?
    06/06/2008 7:42 am

    Wang sat opposite me in our living room listening intently. He had many questions and had been brought to us by a Christian friend called Chen, who was a new believer. I had only been learning language for a short time and although I could understand his questions, I could not answer him adequately. I had never felt so frustrated.
  • English Teaching in East Asia: More than a job, not less than a journey
    23/04/2008 1:46 pm

    Imagine students coming to your class excited about learning, highly motivated and willing to persevere when the going gets tough...
  • Kids Ministry: Taiwanese Style
    25/03/2008 11:53 am

    In Taiwan you will meet children in all kinds of places and at all times of the day. Whether it is early morning on the way to school, or 1am at the night markets, children are around.