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EducationELICELIC equips professional educators to work overseas through English teaching, cross-cultural relationships, team-based service, and educational…Education · Independent Christian Church
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ELIC — Organization Profile ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on…
ELIC — Organization Profile ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on teams in hard-to-access places. Its work connects professional classroom service with long-term relational presence among students, colleagues, neighbors, and local communities. ELIC is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional offices in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its educators serve across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. ELIC began sending teachers to China in 1982 and now offers teaching opportunities in universities, K–12…
ELIC — Organization Profile
ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on teams in hard-to-access places. Its work connects professional classroom service with long-term relational presence among students, colleagues, neighbors, and local communities.
ELIC is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional offices in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its educators serve across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. ELIC began sending teachers to China in 1982 and now offers teaching opportunities in universities, K–12 schools, language centers, community centers, and teacher-training settings.
The organization’s core focus is English education as a pathway for meaningful global service, cultural engagement, and relationship-building. ELIC works through partnerships with governments and educational institutions, placing professional educators in settings where English instruction is needed and where teachers can serve with excellence, humility, and cultural sensitivity. Teachers may serve for a few weeks, nine months, or one year or longer.
ELIC’s programs include short-term Engage opportunities, the Global Ambassador Program, and longer-term Legacy teaching placements. Engage provides team-based summer teaching opportunities for people serving two to eight weeks. The Global Ambassador Program is a nine-month mentorship and cross-cultural development program in locations such as Thailand, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan. Legacy is ELIC’s one-year-or-longer teaching program for university campuses, K–12 schools, and language centers.
The organization also provides substantial support for educators before, during, and after overseas service. ELIC’s process includes inquiry, application, interview, preparation, pre-departure training, support development, team placement, and ongoing care while overseas. Services include orientation, health and safety assistance, visa and travel guidance, personal support, insurance, financial advising, newsletter support, alumni care, and team-based field leadership.
People can engage with ELIC by applying to work overseas as professional educators, exploring short-term or long-term teaching opportunities, joining the Global Ambassador Program, giving financially, inviting ELIC’s president or team members to speak, reading Field Notes, connecting with alumni resources, or contacting the organization for more information. ELIC also offers career opportunities for people interested in North American office support and mobilization work.
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Church of ChristChurch of Christ PlantsChurch of Christ Plants is a Wynne, Arkansas–oversighted missions effort that partners with World English Institute…Church of Christ · Church Planting Organization
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Church of Christ Plants — Organization Profile Church of Christ Plants is a missions and church-planting effort formed in 2014 by Bill Stewart and Pam Stewart with a stated mission of reaching souls with the gospel of Jesus Christ in…
Church of Christ Plants — Organization Profile Church of Christ Plants is a missions and church-planting effort formed in 2014 by Bill Stewart and Pam Stewart with a stated mission of reaching souls with the gospel of Jesus Christ in places where there is not a church of Christ. The ministry works with a traveling team that conducts evangelism, Bible studies, and follow-up support aimed at establishing new congregations and strengthening local leadership. The work is administered under the oversight of the Wynne Church of Christ in Wynne, Arkansas, and it operates with a global scope. Rather than focusing on one region, Church of Christ Plants describes a pattern of going where opportunities are available, especially where long-term local congregations…
Church of Christ Plants — Organization Profile
Church of Christ Plants is a missions and church-planting effort formed in 2014 by Bill Stewart and Pam Stewart with a stated mission of reaching souls with the gospel of Jesus Christ in places where there is not a church of Christ. The ministry works with a traveling team that conducts evangelism, Bible studies, and follow-up support aimed at establishing new congregations and strengthening local leadership.
The work is administered under the oversight of the Wynne Church of Christ in Wynne, Arkansas, and it operates with a global scope. Rather than focusing on one region, Church of Christ Plants describes a pattern of going where opportunities are available, especially where long-term local congregations are not yet established. This includes international outreach that has involved locations such as Ulyanovsk, Russia and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, among other places where the team has sought to encourage new congregations and discipleship.
A distinctive part of Church of Christ Plants’ approach is its partnership with World English Institute (WEI). Through this relationship, the team connects with students who have been learning English through Bible-based materials and then arranges in-person receptions and conversational Bible studies in those cities. The goal is not only to teach, but to help seekers understand and respond to the gospel, and to connect new believers to ongoing discipleship and local church life.
Church of Christ Plants also describes its field strategy as using Pauline mission methodology—teaching the gospel, identifying potential local leaders, and training them to preach and evangelize in their own country. The team notes that they may return to previously established areas to encourage and support the developing congregation. This emphasis on local leadership development is intended to help new works continue beyond the short-term presence of a visiting team.
Individuals and churches can engage with Church of Christ Plants by learning about its mission, following newsletters and updates, praying for open doors and local leadership development, and supporting the travel and ministry costs connected with international trips. The organization also shares stories and summaries of its work through its website resources, including pages highlighting locations where congregations have been planted or encouraged.
