Pray for VRBC's ESL Ministry

VRBC has been teaching English to our international friends since January 2009. This ministry has grown tremendously since its inception, now with four levels of classes on two days each week, activities and loving caretakers for the students' children, a weekly Bible study on Thursdays after class, and special devotional times centered around major Christian holidays such as Easter and Christmas.


Many of our students are only in the United States for a short time--a period of a few years. So our vision for this ministry is that we would be training international missionaries! We hope and pray for opportunities to share the good news of Christ with our students. And then we hope that they will, in turn, share the love and truth of Christ with their friends and family both here in the States and in their home country.


Please pray for our teachers: Linda, Karen, Stacy, Jean, Peggy, Sally, Amy and Angela. Pray for our childcare workers: Katie, Sara, Kim, Krista, Dottie, Johanna, Shannon, Betty, and Willie Nell. Pray for our students: for their language learning and acclimation to a new country and culture, for their receptivity to the gospel, and for the opportunity to develop friendships with them. Pray for our Thursday Bible study: that it might be a time of outreach, that students may come to know Christ and grow in their faith.


Pray also for the opportunities that may soon grow out of this ministry. We hope to soon offer a Sunday morning Adult Bible Fellowship class for our students and other internationals, taught in simple English and covering the basics of the Christian faith. We also hope to recruit volunteers who would be willing to spend time with one of our students and develop a friendship, both for their own mutual benefit and in the hopes of opportunities to share the gospel.


Finally, pray that God would be glorified in this ministry--"that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11).