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Lighthouse Station in Guatamala
Lighthouse Station, Inc. is a non-profit, faith-based humanitarian organization dedicated to utilizing a broad array of strategies to ensure better lives and more self-sufficiency among the many poor of the world.
Currently, efforts are focused in the small highland community of Chichicastanengo, an area which is about a three hour drive northwest of Guatemala City in Guatemala. As of September 2006, there was no program of service in operation but leaders are contemplating establishing one or more of the following: an orphanage, a classical Christian school, a micro-finance venture fund.
If you or your school is interested in partnering with the effort to start a cC school in Guatemala, please visit the website www.lighthousestation.org and/or send your name, e-mail address or phone to Michael Leahy mike@lighthousestation.org or Mark Mathews, president at mark@lighthousestation.org. You may also contact Lighthouse Station at
(214) 676-9999.
Hungarian Translation of Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
Helen Vaughan, former head of school at Caldwell Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now living with her husband in Budapest, Hungary, and working as the Educational Consultant/International Ministries for ACSI. She has asked if ACCS can help raise $6000 for the translation of Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (by Douglas Wilson) into Hungarian, and for the production of 1000 copies of the book for distribution.
Having served as the Head of Caldwell Academy, a long-standing ACCS member school, for a number of years, Helen is strongly committed to classical Christian education, and is working to help establish such schools throughout Europe. Speaking specifically of Hungary, Helen says, “I sense there is a good match between Hungarian Christian educators and classical Christian education. I really get excited about the possibilities.” Hungary has lived for decades under the godless tyranny of Communism, but was released in the providence of God with the fall of the former Soviet Union. This is an opportunity to help a close friend of ACCS promote classical Christian education in this former Communist nation.
Caldwell Academy
Hungarian Translation
2900 Horse Pen Creek Road
Greensboro, North Carolina 27410
All contributions are tax deductible.
Indonesia
Cahaya Bangsa Classical School, located in Bandung, Indonesia, is seeking teachers. We are a K-8 school with 140 Indonesian students. Responsibilities involve teaching students as well as training and mentoring local teachers. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree, commitment to classical Christian education, a heart for missions, ability to adjust to a different culture, and strong personal references. For further information, contact Julie Hansen ghansen@bdg.centrin.net.id.
Teach English in China
If you love the Lord, are a native English speaker, have certain educational credentials, have an aptitude for teaching and are in excellent physical health, you may want to consider these summer teaching programs in China. Your students would be Chinese English teachers. A fact sheet is posted on the ACCS website and more info can be found by calling (888) 941-3542 or visiting www.elic.org/stp. Fact Sheet
Rafiki Schools in Africa
History of Rafiki
The Rafiki Foundation, directed by Rosemary Jensen, began in 1985 when, with the help of several churches, two doctors and their wives were sent to Tanzania, Africa, to work in the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and to teach the Bible. Rafiki was incorporated and registered in the U.S.A. as a nonprofit organization [501(c)(3)] in 1987 and its work is entirely funded by charitable donations.
Aim of Rafiki
Rafiki’s aim is to turn helpless children in Africa into godly contributors in their countries.
Rafiki’s Goal
Rafiki’s goal is to establish one Christian training village in each of the ten following countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda. These villages are funded by donors outside Africa and staffed by Rafiki professional missionary staff and hired nationals. A Rafiki Training Village consists of 16 homes for 10 orphans each, schools for these orphans, three-year vocational training day schools for 60 vulnerable teenage girls and 60 boys, medical care for occupants, and facilities for training select African church denominations to replicate Rafiki’s efforts.
Rafiki provides a unique opportunity to retired Christian teachers to help shape the future of Africa. They seek teachers to serve at one of the Rafiki schools for a short-term commitment of two years. Rafiki schools provide a quality Christian education thus giving a teacher the best of both worlds—reaching some of the neediest children in the world within a quality setting designed to develop future leaders of Africa. Learn more at www.rafiki-foundation.org.