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Joe ‘Pepe’ Miller is a missionary serving in the Peruvian jungle community. After completing 3 Christian TEFL courses, he joined LatinHire to teach English online. Joe kindly agreed to share his experiences, his motivation for online English teaching and how he believes mission and English teaching can be ideal companions. Hello Joe, can you tell...

This week we chatted to Alex Brito, who heads up English for Everybody as part of the local outreach from Mosaic Multicultural Church in East London, UK. Find out what he has to say about English, mission and outreach and how some students have started coming along to their Sunday gatherings. Take a couple of minutes to read through and be...

As Christians, we all know about Christ’s Great Commission to his followers, to go and make disciples of all nations. As the former Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon said: It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world. However, if we are Christian English teachers, many of us may not see ourselves in...

Christian TEFL graduate Lucy (Elsie) Rutledge had planned to continue teaching overseas but when Covid interrupted her travel plans, a change of direction to online English teaching opened a wealth of exciting options. We asked her more about her journey so far and the outlook for her future. Hi Lucy. Please tell us more about you and what led...

It is always encouraging to meet other Christians active in ESL ministry. So, when we attended CELT 2021 last weekend, it was great to find inspiring talks and meet with fellow educators and mission-minded Christians. Held virtually in 2021, the Christians in English Language Teaching event meant people from all around the world could participate...

It’s been a privilege to partner with the team at Sunbridge Road Mission Church this year.  The small team are reaching out to second language speakers in Bradford with free English classes. Many of their students come from Iran, Brazil and the Sudan.   The Bradford church team started with the Christian TEFL 70-hour teaching ESOL courses in late...

We’ve just had our 70-hour Teaching ESOL course formally accredited by ACTDEC to their Level 2 standard. This brings our ESOL course, designed for teaching English in English speaking countries, in line with our other accredited online TESOL courses. This is great news for both us and for our trainees. ACTDEC (the Accreditation Council for TESOL...

It’s been a joy leading live English teacher training sessions with a group of six dedicated Christians from Inspire St James Church Clerkenwell, London.  With their Zoom courses now complete, we caught up with their Ministry worker Mary to see how they’ve been using this training in local outreach and how their online English classes are...

Our experiences conducting English teacher-training with a church on Zoom – and could your church benefit? What is one of the most exciting things about working for Christian TEFL? I think it’s the opportunity to train church members seeking to reach out to marginalised communities around them through teaching English. In doing this, these...