TEACHING ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE OPENS DOOR FOR GOSPEL IN CHINA

TEACHING ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE OPENS DOOR FOR GOSPEL IN CHINA Teaching English as a second language (ESL) classes in China have proven to be a seed-planting tool for the gospel, says SEND International's Robin Pocklington. "We've found that [up to a third] of the students in this college class are asking questions and moving right on through to a place where they make some kind of commitment to Christ," he said. "The ESL classes provide an excellent outreach strategy to expose students to Christian friendship, to invite them to church services at those locations where we have a partner church and to build longer-term relationships to share the gospel in locations where no church is available." In addition, the short-term missionaries are also blessed. "Time and again we find that a certain percentage of young people who have done a short-term missions trip sense the call of God upon their lives for fuller involvement in missions," Pocklington said. "Some of them come back as career missionaries. Some of them will spend the rest of their lives in missionary endeavor." (Mission Network News)

The Hope ESL project began a new phase today with Roofbreakers running in partnership with Campus Crusade for Christ Australia. 

We are hoping that the synergy created will move things along for distributing the Hope ESL software curriculum while providing another tool for CCCA work amongst international students etc.

 CCC have experience with large scale distribution having developed the Jesus Film in the 70's.

The Free Hope ESL Software- The New Version launched

The new version of the Hope ESL curriculum from www.roofbreakers.org has been released.This free-to-copy English language CD ROM is being used and distributed around the world by a whole range of people. The vision is to see a copy of this material provided to key people in every country.

Currently roofbreakers.org has a specific focus on utilizing the massive global English Language opportunity to develop and distribute resources which teach and inspire students. The Hope ESL software curriculum is Roofbreakers.org’s main project.

This software project had its origins in Vietnam where an Australian English teacher developed the educational concept. Later, in partnership with mars-hill productions, roofbreakers was able to produce the Hope ESL software curriculum as a free-to-copy CD ROM including the full Hope film.

Besides the CD, also available for download are (1) The Hope ESL Software Curriculum Guide in PDF; and (2) A few Simple ideas for New Language Learners and Old Ones Needing Some New Life.

The Hope ESL Mandarin support version has been completed and is awaiting approval to be printed in Beijing. The Indonesian support version of the Hope ESL is in the last stage of development.

Golobal distribution of the free Hope ESL software curriculum

The Hope Free ESL software curriculum continues to be distributed around the globe.

Can you help to give the disc to someone in the countries not listed yet?

Order the disc for them by logging on to www.roofbreakers.org 

Overview of the Hope Film

The Hope ESL software Curriculum is based on the film of the Hope.

Here is an overview of it

There is a book unlike any other in all the world. It is the most quoted, most published, most translated book in human history. This book, the Bible, was written by more than forty people from different walks of life, living over a period of fifteen hundred years. Yet, as if its authors were guided by an unseen hand, there emerges from its pages one story of eternal proportions, centered around one extraordinary character who came from heaven to deliver the world from death. Created in cooperation with motion picture producers and distributors around the world, The HOPE is a powerful 80 minute dramatic overview of this incredible story . . . a story many have called the greatest ever told.
Every day, The HOPE is viewed by thousands of people around the world. You can learn more about the ministry of The HOPE, by visiting The HOPE section of the Mars Hill website.
You can view The HOPE online by visiting www.thehopeproject.com.
You can order a copy of The HOPE by clicking here.

China English teaching.

With the development of the Mandarin version of the Hope ESL Software Curriculum completed and waiting for release it is inspiring to note the need as mentioned below.

Internet Evangelism Day says that "English teaching is a major opportunity in virtually all non-English speaking countries, open or closed, and that such a ministry is significant as a witness tool in a world desperate to learn English." China has 300 million people learning the English language. The Asian Economic News, quoting from a 2001 Kyodo News International story entitled “Students in China start learning English from Grade 3” stated:
China's Ministry of Education has lowered as of September 2001 the age at which schoolchildren begin their study of English - from junior high school to the third year of elementary school. According to the report, “The ministry's program is to familiarize primary school children with English through songs and games in the third grade, and then boost listening comprehension in higher grades.”
According to the daily Guangming Ribao, however, secondary-school English is taught mostly by teachers whose academic training is not English. It added that practically no primary school teacher in China has mastered English in college. Source www.betterenglish.org.ph

A few responses to the Hope ESL

Hi Pete, just thought I'd let you know I love the Mandarin Hope CDROM. I've been using alongside telling Chronological Bible Stories to non-Christian Chinese Uni students at Sydney Uni. It's been a help.
Keep up the good work bro!

I heard about Hope ESL from a friend who has been teaching in Russia for a couple of years. I emailed him asking for any resources he was familiar with. The next day he received an email from a friend telling him of the success he had with the Hope ESL program. I have deleted that email so I cannot provide you with a name...sorry! (Don't you just love how God works thing out???)
This year our church is sponsoring foreign mission trips to Cambodia, China, Guatamala, Bahrain and Lebanon. We are very excited about the doors God is opening for us...especially in Asia.
I look forward to receiving the CDs. May God richly bless your efforts.
Arizona

Sorry for not responding ages ago. I did get the disk. I think its great, so really glad you now have time / backing / contacts to keep developing things. I have distributed the disk in a few directions already. Everyone seems to think it's great. In particular, one pastor's wife who i know here is running some English classes, taught by appropriate foreigners, mainly for students from the provinces who are studying in [the city]. She thinks it is great and has enthusiastically adopted it as the curriculum for the more advanced classes.
Vietnam

We are teaching English to hundreds of students and educators here in Nicaragua. How can I get a copy as soon as possible of your ESL tool?

Thank you so much for the ‘HOPE CD’. We are truly blessed and what a powerful tool. We are using it as part of out family bible study once a week and now I am planning to use it in our mens fellowship and trying to include the Bible story on CD in our youth program as part of the Bible lesson. Pray that the doors will be open for me to use the material.
PNG

We are working in Moldova sharing the Gospen through English teaching. During the summer we organize English camps and during the year we teach English in small groups. I was looking for some materials that will combine English lessond with the Gospel. The CD Rom that you write about would be a wonderfull thing on this way

Thanks so much for sending this CD on to me. It will be very useful. Both showing the film and for helping English students.
The missionnaries at Katoka out west near the Angolan border have the film, but not the English curriculum, so are wanting a copy.
I am in Lubumbashi and my friend from Katoka arrives here this afternoon, so she will make a copy while she is here.
Once again thank you so much for sending this CD.

Thanks for the mail and I just want to share with you that english is a very good tool for us to share the gospel with young people here. In our center in Antsirabe, we do have 100 young people coming to learn english once a week and every year we do have 200 students. Already lots of young people from our club are taking over the leaders and lots of them receive Jesus Christ as their personal saviour at the english club. We are very thankful to God that we do have partnership in this area.

"Please may we have a few more of The Hope CD.ROMS---can you spare six? ! Because of our involvement (over the last 12 years since our retirement from service in Africa) with the International Student Hospitality Scheme of the Glasgow Universities, then with Friends International in Glasgow, we now have an ongoing email ministry to those who have gone home after Graduating. This includes Dicipling, advising on Bible study and the like, also sending Bibles and study notes to those interested or who have come to faith while in the UK. There is such a need !---a real hunger too.

We were impressed with the complete message of 'The Hope' and feel that this is something that we could extend and use in our email ministry---so light and easy to send to China and other countries, for use via our contacts' computers. These young folks 'live' in them ! In the CD. the speakers speak at the right pace and pronounce so well, that it could be useful as a lip-reading exercise too, for the deaf ! This is an excellent English Language tool, with the wonderful bonus of hearing the Good News and of allowing an opening for the Holy Spirit to do His unique and wonderful work. We would value your comments---and if you feel this is a good use of your resourse, we would use the CDs sensitively." UK