No. We have volunteers who help set up, serve and clean up dinner. Other volunteers help register students, help oversee placement tests and spend time with our children and teens. 

No, we have curriculum that focuses on life skills and grammar. You'll have an instructor textbook with tips on teaching each lesson and easy-to-follow lesson plans. We have a supply closet with vocabulary bingo games, play money and other hands-on activities to enrich your lessons. Each student will have a textbook. At the beginning of the year, we have teacher training and lesson-planning time. We always have at least two teachers assigned to a class, so a new teacher would never have to teach without support. Leaders are also available to help at any time.

No. We are helping move students toward English proficiency.  

However, the ability to speak other languages is very useful to our ministry particularly as we greet new students and explain how childcare, class and registration work. Language skills can also be helpful in our lower-level classes.

Our small but mighty team works together to serve and love our neighbors. We know with better understanding of the English language comes more opportunities for upward mobility. ESL can truly change a family's life!

Hospitality volunteers arrive early to set up food and drinks. We typically serve pizza, fruit and a salad in a buffet line.

The Admin team is set up outside the main meeting room to help people register, take a placement test and get a name tag. Greeters help people feel welcome and show them where and how to check in their kids and teens.

Teachers arrive before 6:30 to grab textbooks, pencils and supplies from our workroom for their classroom, then they join our adult students for dinner in the main meeting room.

Students can check their children and teens in beginning at 6:15. They then head to dinner and big group time. During dinner, teachers eat and chat with students. A short group lesson explains a timely, cultural aspect of the United States. Students practice a Bible verse in English then head to class from 7-8:15 pm.

Hospitality volunteers serve the kids and teens dinner around 7 p.m., then clean up.

Beyond the schedule logistics, there are continuous opportunities to have fun, make friends from other cultures, laugh and be a blessing.