Simpleng Buhay: Our little school's missions celebration

Here in IGSL we also have what we call our little school. The school is called Achievers International School. This is where our students' children go to school and it is inside IGSL. To give you a background I got these from Ate Theresa Huculak's blog

For many years we have been aware children's education is one big struggle faced by IGSL parents who come from other countries. Schools are expensive, kids struggle with learning in both Tagalog and English, parents worry about their kids' safety, and local teachers cannot be expected to cope with kids struggling with cross-cultural adjustment. The parents made a proposal to put up a cooperative school run by them for their kids. We use the Alpha and Omega home schooling curriculum and done in a group home-schooling environment.Everyone is so much happier with this new situation. The kids learn English quickly, the teachers understand their unique struggles, the school is right on campus, and we are able to keep expenses down. (We charge P18,000 per child per year.) Most subjects are taught in the classroom, but the parents teach two subjects at home to their own kids -- Bible and National Language. In past years we discovered that IGSL children are often weak in their own language when they return home. So now they have to keep up with their studies in their national language -- that's an AIS requirement.

To give you an idea how much happier they are now studying together here are some of the pictures that I took yesterday culminating their missions month. The kids were grouped into three countries with their corresponding missionaries.

Group I: Country(Myanmar) Missionary (Adoniram Judson)