new job

Several have asked about my job, so I thought I would give an update. I am at Catholic Family Services and am teaching ESL(English as a Second Language) to incoming refugees. Most speak no English whatsoever. New country, new rules, new life, new everything. I will also be helping with a program called "Student Impact" as a liaison between the schools and refugees to help them with immunizations and any other teacher/school issues that might arise. Most of the refugees are from Burma, Iran, Iraq, Somalia. All that I have met are very eager to learn and try really hard. It has been rather hilarious. Try explaining "embarrass" to someone who doesn't understand a word you say.

There are over 100 Adult students enrolled and new ones every day. I can't tell you how excited I am that God has given me this opportunity. I have always felt called to teach and am so grateful that He is allowing me to continue with my passion. I pray that He will use me to show the love of Christ as I get to know them better. I understand way better now how Kyle and Shasta must feel like "fish out of water" in language school. I can't really "preach" the message to them, so I just pray I will shine with His love, so they will ask. Please pray as well. We are already building a great rapport and it's amazing that a smile, a bow, a thank you, a hug mean the same thing across cultures.

All in all, the happiest thing for me is when I see the "dawn of understanding" in their cute faces. Ahh, the light bulb goes on. That makes any teacher so happy. It's so foreign and strange. I wonder if that's how God feels about us? He must really be happy when we "get it." When the "dawn of understanding" comes over us. He tries and tries to teach us this foreign language of trying to live a life in Him. You know what, the Bible should be our default. It should be our native language. We who are in Him are just aliens in a foreign land. I have a new understanding of that concept.

Eph. 2:18-20 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
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