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The Housekeeper (Asia)
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Educating SIM Missionary Kids
The theme of the recent SIM Global Leaders Gathering was "To live, love, learn, and leave a legacy." And although these ideas were being explored from a different emphasis within the gathering, they paint a great picture of the goals SIM holds for missionary kids.
Missionary kids, MKs, are an extension of the ministry of their parents. The parents feel God's calling on their lives to go ... to live in another country, another culture, a new set of rules, a different language ... but they don't leave their children behind. Of course not. The children follow their parents and learn to adapt to a new ebb and flow.
Caroline Black, an MK who grew up in Ethiopia, used these words, in part, to describe her experience, "Growing up as a missionary kid in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been an exciting, incomprehensible, eye-opening, instructive, and challenging experience. It has revealed the huge world that exists beyond me and the possibilities it holds."
As a community of God's people who are seeking to fulfill Christ's mission in the world, SIM has a keen desire to make sure that missionary kids have the best opportunities available to learn and grow throughout their school-age years—to become faithful followers of Christ who will engage the next generation with the Gospel.
SIM has established many MK and International schools in the areas in which they serve, and many of them are dependent on teachers who want to teach and experience a new and exciting culture. In the upcoming 2009-2010 academic year, there are a number of opportunities for teachers that desire to be involved in cross-cultural ministry—teaching children how to live, love, learn, and leave a legacy of their own for God's glory!
Read the rest of Caroline's story
Pray
- That God would call the right people for each opening in each school.
- That the kids would enjoy a safe, fun, and relaxing summer break.
- That MKs would know that they are an integral part of their parents' ministry.
- That the kids would adjust well to the ever-changing lifestyle of today's missionary families.
Go
Is God stirring your heart to go? Search out educational opportunities by country, or by looking at International Schools and MK Education, Community Education, or Theological Education.
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