Our Mission Field

During parent-teacher conferences, one of the few fathers I met said the following words:
"You're probably only going to be here for a couple of years, right? And you're teaching history? How much high-school level history do you think [the students] are going to remember? But if you're getting involved with their lives, if you're really ministering, that's a lot more important than what you teach." I've been thinking about that lately. Amy and I have been given the official job title of "missionaries," but we focus on teaching first and seeing if we can throw in the Gospel, if we have time. So backward. We do integrate the Bible, but we want to integrate the basic truths. Here's a little about our mission field:

• Maybe one in five of my students are Christians.
• The students have almost all moved internationally more than once.
• Parents are generally non-religious and anti-Christian, sending their kids to the only air-conditioned school in the country.
• Most students speak more than one language.

So much of our time is spent on building education, but the strength of our faith is that it's about extending grace.