Kojima Mission Volunteer Position
2009
I. Kojima is a lovely suburb of Kurashiki city, located in Okayama Prefecture and about halfway between Osaka and Hiroshima. Kojima has a population of about 80,000, Kurashiki about 400,000. Even though we are Kurashiki city, due to the transportation system, we usually do our big city stuff in Okayama, only 21 minutes by train. Kojima is a center of textile manufacturing and a lot of jeans and casual wear is made there. Everyone knows Kojima for the boat races held there ,too.
To reach Kojima, we usually fly into Osaka KIX, take the Haruka to Shin-Osaka, then the Shinkansen to Okayama, where we transfer to the Marin Liner and get off at Kojima station. It takes about 3 hours from the airport.
II. LOGOS Eikaiwa,
http://www.logosenglish.com/ or LOGOS English Conversation School, is how we make our living. We offer English conversation classes to students aged 2 and up. We mostly have classes from 2 to 5 in size, and the limit is eight students. We also have contracts with two kindergartnes and two companies now to provide classes off-site.
III. The Rogers Kojima Mission: We are in our 15th year as pioneering tent-making missionaries. Since 2002, we have had several Let’s Start Talking http://www.lst.org projects and most of our Bible classes are with people first contacted through this work. The most recent project was in 2009, when we had a student team from Harding University and an adult team from Texas.
IV. Volunteer responsibilities:
A. Teach a few classes in LOGOS each week. Because we cannot hire a full-time teacher now, Brent and Sandy will be working more hours. There are times when the schedule is really hard for two teachers. We will provide textbooks, training and help when needed.
B. Continue follow-up of LST students. This means teaching, organizing, and reporting. We would like to provide regular events, both social and teaching focus, in the months to come, too.
C. Faithful ministry in daily life and worship with the church.
D. Japanese class at least once a week and preferably two.
E. Other responsibilities according to the talents and needs will be discovered as time goes on.
V. We can offer cheap air-fare on a standby-basis. On-site, we can offer an apartment and utilities. When a volunteer selection is made, we can discuss each person’s situation in detail and see how to make it work.
Best Reporting Date: Sept 5 or 6. Our current teacher’s last day is September 14, and we would like the new teacher to observe her for a week of classes. And observe the other teachers at times, too.
Term of initial period. A tourist visa is 3 months and you need a round-trip ticket to get this visa when you come. So we are setting the initial period of commitment at three months.
For more information, please contact us by blog comment or email, phone etc.
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