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)