ESL Tutoring

   When the friday afternoon ESL tutoring first began here at Global Neighborhood, I was not precisely sure what to expect. We'd done quite a bit of planning and prep work, and I had done one-on-one ESL tutoring myself, in the past, but I was unsure of how fully our program would be utilized and by how it would work out to have volunteers and refugees just come and be matched without making appointments or firm commitments on availability.

   Hosting a program that asks volunteers and refugees to arrive in uncertain number that they might be paired together and sent off to learn from each other invokes the numinous, and every week is a blessing from God and an active sign of his presence in our lives. It is wondrous to talk to refugees and volunteers afterwards, and to hear them excitedly telling stories of their time tutoring, or remarking that they will tell all of their other friends that they need to come. We pray to God in need and confusion, and our prayers are constantly answered.

   Wow. Praise God!