How can you serve God’s church in a majority Muslim Context?

Can you support the work of God in Pakistan? Murree Christian School is a small boarding school, in the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas in North Pakistan.  Our mission school enables foreigner and national mission workers to minister throughout this needy country, knowing their children are being educated, nurtured and discipled in a Christian community.  We prepare students for GCSE and A Level exams.
From August 2019, we need:

• those with a heart for young people, who will care for and disciple students from ages 9-18, serving as their dorm parent.
• graduates/teachers willing to teach English, History/Geography, Science, Maths, Spanish, Religious Studies, Music
• An Administrative assistant/ secretary

Please be in contact as soon as possible as the visa process takes several months from appointment.
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Though most of our staff come as mission personnel with personal support, we offer free accommodation and will consider giving a local allowance to anyone appointed to teach core subjects to GCSE and A Level or with a major dorm parenting role.  Our classes are very small, so we will also consider graduates with no teaching experience keen to see whether teaching is for them.  The opportunity is also ideal for early or recently retired teachers.
Applicants must be mature Christians who enjoy sharing life with children and/or teenagers and who would value the opportunity to nurture and disciple them.
We do also value to the help of assistants in the dorms and in the classroom and consider applicants who can only offer to come from one semester, but they will be volunteers rather than staff and not receive an allowance.  Minimum age is 18.
Please contact Dagmar Baron on principal@mcs.org.pk  and look on www.mcs.org.pk  to find out more.

A volunteer with Key Stage 1 experience is needed to assist with a week of co-operative and creative learning for children of cross-cultural workers who are usually home schooled. Participants will represent several nationalities and not all have English as a first language, so the programme focus is on practical, creative and social activities rather than on core academic subjects. Besides the Key Stage 1 class there will be a Key Stage 2 class.

Leader of the project: Moira, an OMF worker - SVN volunteers have worked with her many times and she looks after us extremely well!

Location for accommodation and activities:  the OMF centre in Chiang Mai.

Date of the Home School Week: 25th February to 1st March 2019.

Theme: Rainforests.

Length of project: about 10 days to allow for orientation and preparation.

Travel, accommodation and expenses costs: around £1000. The SVN Bursary Fund applies to this project

For more information, contact svnetprojects@gmail.com​

RWANDA May/June 2019
A team of 4-5 people will be needed in Kigali to work with teachers at all levels, to help establish libraries and encourage reading in primary, a love of books and learning through play in preschool, and to continue to help teachers at all levels with the delivery of the competence-based curriculum.

​It is anticipated that we shall travel out on or near May 23rd and return on or near June 10th.

It may be that, for the first week, which is half term in the UK, the team will be accompanied by one or two serving teachers from church schools in Ely diocese, but they will be spending time in the schools with which their own schools have been linked. Although we shall visit these schools, we shall work in a different school yet to be identified but possibly a rural school in an area called Nyarafunzo which can accommodate the whole team.

Flights will be around £600 (hopefully less) and accommodation in the Mothers' Union guest house will be around £30 a night (£540 approx.) Yellow fever vaccination is required in addition to all the usual. The sooner we can book flights, the cheaper they will be.

The SVN Bursary Fund is available to support this project.
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For more information contact ​svnetprojects@googlemail.com
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A very recent request from OMF
They are looking for someone with experience of working with deaf children
We would like to explore the possibility of an SVN teacher being available to help with a very specific task. 

We have a family in the application process to serve in South East Asia.  They are currently in their final year at All Nations.  Their older child  is currently 11, and was adopted.  He is deaf and his first language is British Sign Language.  He is currently in a very good school for deaf children, Heathlands in Hertfordshire.  He is working at a Key Stage 1 level.  When the family move they will first be involved in language learning.  The only option open for his education is homeschooling.  A couple known to them, one of them with BSL, is also in the application process to support them in homeschooling during their language study year.  We have been talking with them about a suitable homeschooling program.  The courses we would normally recommend to families will not be a good fit for this family as they would have to be adapted significantly to meet  his needs.  The approach he is used to in literacy is very different to the approach that would be used by a hearing child e.g. he learns reading through memorisation of sight words and cannot access a phonics approach.  For written language he is learning a system of shape coding. 

We are wondering if there is anyone on the SVN contact list with experience of working with deaf children, who would be willing to invest significant time in adapting existing home school materials or indeed creating prescriptive literacy lesson plans from scratch that could be easily followed by a home school teacher who has British Sign Language but has no formal experience of teaching or homeschool tutoring.  We feel it would be best if the lesson plans were not all produced up front but that they could be sent out month by month, taking account of any adaptations that would be needed.  Therefore it would require an ongoing, regular commitment.  If, by God’s provision, you have someone that could fit this need I would be willing to work with them in helping them understand the context for learning, and the best way to present the lesson plans to make them accessible.  I’d also recommend that the person would meet the family here in the UK and perhaps visit his school to get insight into the teaching approaches and material he is used to. (Moira from OMF)

Please contact us on svnetprojects@googlemail.com if this is something you might be able to take on.
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Camp David Green Academy, Kenya
Camp David Green Academy, a registered international Christian school start-up project at Ol Kalou, Nyandarua County in Kenya is seeking an online Christian volunteer to help prepare a business plan for the project.

Detailed information available on request: Nicholas Nganga, Executive Director, Camp David Green Academy, P.O Box 3305-20100, Nakuru, Kenya.
Email: campdavidacademykenya@gmail.com
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Home Schooling in Morocco
We’ve received news from a team in Morocco that their home-school teacher has been unable to return from the UK due to a medical condition. She’s hoping to go back soon, but in the meantime, they could really do with a teacher for their 13 year old teenage son, as soon as possible. If you have any contacts with teaching experience, or experience with teenagers, and are free for a month or two, it would be great to help them out. Contact svnetprojects@googlemail.com

Home school weeks are run by OMF to give children who are normally home schooled, the opportunity of relating with others in normal school activities - so the emphasis is on group work and preparing  varied  activities – craft, music, art, investigative/problem solving, maths and language games etc where they can inter relate. Some formal academic content is appropriate but kept to a minimum and a topic will be chosen. The actual week is Monday December 10th to Friday 14th, but it would be good to arrive a couple of days before to acclimatise and for last minute preparation.

There are twelve children in all ranging from age 6-15 forming two classes of six each and I hope to be taking the primary aged one. This will be the fourth one I have been involved with, the second in Singapore, and they are very enjoyable. The children are keen and the parents extremely grateful for our help.

Flights from UK are about £500 and high quality accommodation in their guesthouse is about £170 for a week. The application process via OMF has been streamlined we believe for SVN volunteers, but will require some form filling!

For more details please contact svnprojects@googlemail.com.