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yankeechemist · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 50

Be careful of places that say Christian Teaching Opportunities. It appears to me that they usually want volunteers or very low pay. No offense intended, but I am just stating what I have found out.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Ok, thanks, but I would have guessed that from the name, they are looking for missionaries who will work for missionary salaries or raise their own funds.

augrad · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 15

You have not offended : )
Nature Girl is exactly right. I have looked into this and they want you to look at it from a missionary's point of view and raise the money through churches. It is not something you look at as merely a way to earn money and make a living--it is something you do for God to spread the Gospel of Jesus.

Gringo Greg · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:07 am Post subject:

No, they want you to look at it from a way to make them the most money. I am intimately aware of a few of these organizations and money seems to be what makes them work. They charge students just as much as anyone else and then gets teachers for peanuts. They pocket the rest or put the money into pet projects that puts more money in their pockets.

Atlan Training · Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 76 Location: Spain

This is a scam. If you wish to work through a christian organization because of your religious beliefs, contact the faith-based service committees like American Friends Service Committee or the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee or Catholic Charities.

sheikxhoni · Joined: 28 Jun 2009 Posts: 48 Location: Bangkok

More people need to be offended by people masqurading as teachers with the intend to proslytize people who already have perfectly good religions of their own.

How does a Christian (usually Christians) have the gaul to tell a Buddhist, for example, that only Chritianity is acceptable?

It gives all teachers a bad name when teachers double up as missionaries or when there is a faith based test for teaching.

Chancellor · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Yes offend people - --

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject:

Gets complicated.

If a Christian feels that Jesus is the messiah and the only path to salvation, and a Jew believes that Jesus was, or may have been, a prophet, but was not the promised messiah, clearly they aren't both right, even though both can make strong scriptural arguments for their positions. Seems to me like one or the other has to be wrong, because the views are contradictory.

But does that mean they can't coexist? In this world, I don't see why they can't. Obviously, if some of us go to heaven, and others of us go to hell, we won't have to worry about coexisting then. But in the meantime, a lot of us would argue that we not only CAN co-exist, we're sort of required to. Virtually all religions have pretty clear precepts about how to treat your neighbor, even when that neighbor happens to disagree with you.

Best,
Justin

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject:

Ahem-

Replied in stream of consciousness- Please pardon the fact that, while interesting, this no longer has a lot to do with teaching in Latin America. Sorry.

Justin

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Seems that that has caused semi new religions to pop up, like B'hai (spelling?) which is more encompassing. Bottom line, you can be a religious fanatic, an atheist or antyhing in between, just don't bring it into the classroom with you.

Green Acres · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 260

Cool cat, Justin. I've got one at home just like him/her (can't tell from the photo). Keeps me up all night...and what-not.