On the Asia-Pacific Region teachers are a key component of the strategy to serve the more than 100 unreached cities on the region. The region’s stated goal is to strategically locate 500 teachers in these cities by the year 2020.  In June 2009, the AsiaServe.org/go Web site was launched to help with the recruiting process.  Each month new candidates are responding, both through this site and through the Mission Corps site.

In East Timor, in fact, a much needed teacher position was very recently filled. 

According to team leader Warren Neal, “This week God answered a long time prayer. Our first volunteer to help with our English program, Delinda Stafford, arrived on Tuesday!“

Delinda had been a youth pastor in Topeka, Kansas, USA and answered the request to come and help in East Timor for the next 10 months.  She will be taking on the task of learning Tetum (the national language of East Timor) starting next week while they wait for students to sign up to our English program this year. 

Neal reports that Delinda has already gotten involved in ministry, braving city traffic on the back of different peoples' motorbikes!  Delinda has also jumped right into the team’s spiritual disciplines.  Neal says, “On Friday she was up early to attend our prayer and fasting time and on Saturday afternoon she participated in the weekly youth service. We thank God for her and know that she will be a blessing in the months ahead!” 

Please pray for Delinda as she settles in and makes the adjustments to serve God and the church in East Timor.

To learn more teaching opportunities in Asia, visit: http://www.AsiaServe.org/go