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The teaching positions at Cowman School just outside of Cap Haitien, Haiti, today\nstand wide open and unfilled – and have been all this semester.\u00a0\u00a0Currently at Cowman, the principal is doubling as\nkindergarten teacher and has therefore necessarily limited class to three\ndays a week.\u00a0 Melissa is anxious to step in\u00a0to the\u00a0teacher role\u00a0and allow the principal to get back to her administrative focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
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At the other end of the school, the junior and senior high\nstudents that I will be working with are unsupervised much of the day.\u00a0 As they work on their online courses, they have no regular teacher available to crack the whip, answer questions, lead Bible class or teach English.\u00a0 Trying to teach from a distance this semester has been incredibly frustrating to me and it simply falls far short of the classroom ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Meanwhile, over at Emmaus Biblical Seminary,\u00a0 demand for English classes and tutoring exceeds what\u00a0current staff\u00a0can offer.\u00a0 English skills give the students – Haiti’s future pastors – access to oodles of resources that have never been (and never will be)\u00a0translated into Creole. AND, those graduates who are proficient in English are finding opportunities to use their skills for income as freelance translators – in\u00a0 a country where few pastors receive any sort of compensation from the churches they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Those are the opportunities we KNOW we have missed out on this semester and will continue to miss out\u00a0during this\u00a0second semester if we cannot get to Haiti in January. Nobody knows what other opportunities and divine appointments might be missed in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n
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We are entirely dependent on individuals (mostly) and churches (some) who will partner with us through monthly support.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
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We’ve done the math … and 50 more pledges of $50 a month each will put us in a place where we can get started.\u00a0(Of course, 25 at $100 would work too!)<\/p>\n\n\n
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Will you pray\u00a0about this ministry opportunity and the possibility of joining with us as one of those 50?<\/p>\n\n\n
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