Meet Professor. He is one amazing communicator. By day he truly is a college professor but he is also a full time pastor and church planter. 24/7 he is about bringing Kingdom from Up There to Down Here. He started a church about 6 years ago and now has over 700 people attending. This week he was given the task to accompany the Conversational English team as we worked with grade school students, their teachers and the administration of the schools.
Jack has always talked a lot about how Indians always add so much spice when they were translating for our teams and teachers – well this is the Professor to the nines. He could capture a class of students quicker than anyone I have ever seen. Within minutes he would have them laughing, repeating English words and phrases and communicating with each other (in English) in short sentences.
We Americans did our best – but I think the students were more interested in seeing these different looking people, hearing them speak and eagerly repeating a few short words back to us. But, with the professor, the kids wanted to LEARN English as if their lives depended upon it. With the world getting much smaller and the common thread of communication seemingly being English this might be very true. The professor understood that Tamil should never be replaced as these kid’s native language but learning English was more like learning the internet or any other skill set that enables you to enhance your standard of living.
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