English Evenings
Every Monday night from the beginning of October until the end of November, a group of GEM missionaries is holding a conversational English meeting in a church in Müllheim, Germany. This coming week, they hope to have 23 Germans attend. This is the second time they’ve offered this to the community and the first time, it was a great success. The premise is to offer a casual atmosphere for non-native English speakers to come and simply converse with native English speakers. This approach is extremely successful for bridging the gap between churches and their communities. Whenever we tell people that Thadd is an English teacher, the reaction we get most often is “I want to learn English (or I want to speak better, etc)” and the follow-up response is “Would you tutor me (or do you know where I could go)?” Now, if we had an English Evening such as this in our community, we could hand them a flyer and encourage them to come. This is exactly what we have in the works. Thadd has met with the Pastor from our church, Stadtmission, and a few other key people to discuss how we might replicate English Evenings in Lörrach. We hope to start something in the Spring. This coming Monday, November 2, Thadd will go to Müllheim (45 minutes north from here) to be a part of the English Evening there in hopes of getting some ideas for what we might do here and to have some fun while he’s at it. Thadd loves socializing in this capacity and he’s excited to meet some new people. Our hope is that English can draw people into the church and show them a church that is radically different than the one they have in their minds because of the transforming love of Christ.
Please pray for:
- Thadd and the other missionaries to be the fragrance of Christ to those that attend the November 2 English Evening
- The English Evenings as they take place in Müllheim
- Preparations for English Evenings to start at our church in the Spring
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Great idea to provide an opportunity to service a need. and let people know about the church in a non-threatening way.
I am surprised so many people wnat to be tutored in English. I kind of thought Germany would be more English speaking than some other countries I have visited. They seem more “westernized” to me than let say France.
great idea. just make sense. people world wide want to speak english. what a God given opp. My donna plans to visit the tweedy birds in April and may stop over in Moscow for an learn english speaking think where folks come for a weekend to spend time with english speakers.