ELIC: TEACHING INTERNATIONALLY WITH INTEGRITY, PURPOSE, AND PASSION By Mark Powell Global Missions has enjoyed a partnership with ELIC for many years. General Baptists have served with ELIC and gained tremendous experience as a result. ELIC offers both summer and longer-term missions opportunities. Becky Coomer is an Oakland City University graduate and General Baptist pastors kid serving with ELIC for the last several years. Becky states, "Serving with ELIC has been a blessing. In a broken world, using your skills to meet people's education needs opens doors to the greater need of the good news! I watch families go from fearful to knowing that I care for their children and them. They, in turn, have let their children continue education, and now their kids are active members of our seeker studies! Watching lives be transformed through ELIC has been amazing!" ELIC proudly recruits, trains, and sends hundreds of people each year to teach longterm and short-term programs throughout Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Our long-standing partnerships with universities and governments around the globe open doors for us to make a profound and significant impact on students, colleagues, and neighbors. People come to ELIC from various backgrounds, including
engineering, executive leadership, sales, medicine, and education. Our comprehensive training prepares new teachers to be world-class educators and helps veteran teachers as they transition overseas. Ongoing professional development opportunities include yearly conferences, graduate certificate programs, master's degrees, and Ph.D. options. We are honored to have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of students. English is the business language of the world, and students from our classrooms use their skills to gain overseas jobs as well as earn positions of leadership in business, government, and virtually any other profession that they pursue. We are proud to connect ELIC teachers with future leaders where we serve. In 1981, ELIC began a formal partnership with the Chinese government to start sending teams of teachers to join the faculty at universities throughout China. Since then, ELIC has sent thousands of teachers to more than a dozen countries in East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Throughout our 38 years, we have had the privilege of providing services to our government and institutional partners, including placement and management of English
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