English class surprise

Our plan was to have two English classes of 20 students each. We hung the advertising banner outside of the church three days before registration. The banner instructed them to call my cell phone for instructions on registration. Two of the three registration days my cell phone was broken. In total we received only about five or six calls.

We arrived at the church and found about 30 people waiting outside the gate. By the time registration was done we had a hundred and seventy people signed up. Word spread fast.  English is very important to help break out of poverty.

We were trying to start slow on this English language training program but I guess we will jump in full force. We've had to double the number of classes from 2 to 4 and hope that we have a lot of no-shows. Having never taught English classes before I sure hope this goes well.
People manually pick up and sort rocks each day.
After they are collected the rocks they are sorted and put into bags and then sold to local contractors.

Wages are unbelievably low here.  Our taxi driver works seven 12 hour days and makes $160 a month.  Semi skilled laborers make $5 to $10 a day.  2 of the waitresses we have befriended work 7 10 hour days.  It's humbling .
This is a neighboring Island. The little boats boats in the water are fisherman that go out every morning.

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  1. The PiersJanuary 21, 2018 at 7:22 AM

    Glad your English classes are going to be so we'll attended. A large percentage of the PH leadership and their families in Indonesia first found out about the Church through English classes.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 21, 2018 at 12:35 PM

    Lee and Cheryl, glad to hear the English classes are taking off. does the church provide curriculum? My daughter is a English as a second language teacher and may have some resources that might help.

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