Volume 1, Issue 3

April-July , 2002

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Hire A Teacher Coming Home from Overseas.
I have had a great experience hiring missionary teachers coming home from teaching overseas. They have a heart for kids, they have a heart for the world, and they have a heart for the Lord.

Book to Read on Missions:

Unveiled at Last
by Bob Sjogren

You will discover that the message of The Great Commission is written from Genesis to Revelation.

Want to learn more about teaching or serving as an administrator overseas?

Contact :
The Network of Intenational Christian Schools (NICS)
www.nics.org

Many schools are giving a tithe of their annual funds to mission projects around the world. I am convinced that Biblical principles that apply to individuals will also apply corporately to your school.
"Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine."
Proverbs 3:9-10

The creation of this newsletter is a fulfillment of a commitment to give back to the Christian school movement. So many have invested time and energy into my life. My desire is to provide an avenue for older, more experienced administrators to offer mentoring opportunities for those young struggling administrators who desire to make a difference. My desire is to make this forum practical and beneficial. Let us know the issues you want to discuss. I'll find someone to tackle the issue with you.
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Have An Impact Around The World
by Chantal Pinnow:

In July of 1997, my husband Jeff, our three-month-old son, and I arrived in Korea for the first time. All of our worldly possessions were packed into six blue plastic trunks and a few carry-on bags. As we sat in our new home in Uijongbu, our first question to each other was, "What are we doing here?" What we were doing was beginning an adventure that would have a major impact on our lives.

We moved to Korea so that Jeff could teach middle school at the International Christian School in Uijongbu. I.C.S. is an English language school for international students living in Korea. It is part of the Network of International Christian Schools (NICS). After living in Uijongbu three years, we moved to serve in the NICS school in Seoul. Here in Seoul, my husband is the high school principal while I stay home with our two small children.

Living overseas has had its challenges. We have had to get accustomed to a new language, a new culture, new foods, and new smells. Despite these adjustments, there have been many benefits. I have developed a larger worldview. I have a greater appreciation for people whose race and culture are so different from my own. I have also developed a new contentment. I have come to realize that everything I have is a gift from God. Another lesson I have learned while living overseas is my life as a Christian should be distinctive. My husband is six feet one with red hair. He could never be mistaken for a Korean man. He definitely stands out wherever we go. There should be that much of an obvious difference between we Christians and this world.

My husband and I have never felt a specific "call to missions." We feel we are serving God where He wants us to be, and it just happens to be overseas. Although you may not be able to see yourself ever living outside of the United States, there are ways you and your school can have an impact around the world. Adopt a school in another country. Have your students correspond with the students at the adopted school. Send supplies to the adopted schools. Send students and teachers on short-term mission trips. Support a missionary teacher financially or with care packages. Most of all, go. Use your experience as an administrator, especially with new schools just getting started or schools going through the accreditation process. Whether you go for a short-term trip or an extended stay, your life will never be the same again.

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Web Sites of a few Christian Schools Around the World

1. International Community School-Singapore : www.ics.edu.sg/
2. International Community School-Bangkok, Thailand: www.icsbangkok.com/
3. International Christian School-Seoul, Korea: www.icseoul.net/
4. Bandung Alliance International School- Bandung, Indonesia: www.baisedu.org/
5. Amazon Valley Academy- Belem, Brazil: www.nics.org/belem/

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A Trip That Changed My Life.
By Paul Young:

In 1998 my wife and I made our first mission's trip. For years my pastor had encouraged me to take a mission trip. I was tempted to make a couple but never really felt God's leadership until I had an opportunity to visit several international Christian schools in 1998. For years our church had supported a missionary to Korea by the name of Joe Hale. Joe had started four Christian schools in Korea, one in Bangkok, and another in Indonesia. In 1998 Joe was living in Singapore where he moved to start another school. He had encouraged us to visit so we planned a trip that would allow us to see the four schools in Korea, the school in Bangkok, Thailand, and finally the new school in Singapore. My plans were to make the trip, speak at a few in-service meetings that had been arranged, and try to encourage a few missionaries. Little did I know that God wanted to do a much greater work in my life, and He wanted me to see that my ministry should not stop within the four walls of my school. I never shall forget looking in a classroom in Bangkok and getting a glimpse of what heaven is going to be like. There were children from nine or ten different countries in that room. Different colors and different cultures - much different from anything I had ever experienced. I suddenly realized what a great and awesome God I served! Much has happened in my life and in the life of our school since that first mission trip. Once God opened my heart to missions, He had the freedom to work in the school. The next year my daughter and son-in-law left to serve the Lord in Korea. An elementary teacher and her husband went to Singapore. A math teacher and her husband who was on the church staff are now serving in Brazil. An art teacher who had returned to the states from Korea is back on the mission field in Brazil. Just recently our Elementary Principal of 12 years has resigned to take a position as head of a mission school in China. Nothing has been more exciting that to see how God has worked in the area of missions. Students are now taking special classes in missions and are making missions trips each year. What an opportunity for the students today. They have helped remodel a school in Austria and have painted and cleared land for a school in Brazil. Plans are being made to minister in Africa and China. Hearts and lives are being changed and impacted for eternity. All of this did not happen because I went on a mission trip - all of this happened because we opened our school's heart to missions and the world, and God has opened the world to our school.

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