The main purpose of the trip to Chuuk was to complete a partnership agreement with Mizpah Christian School and Logan Memorial Church. MCS and LMC will host the PIU teaching facility and computer lab in their building and PIU will provide access to the computer lab and internet to the students as Mizpah. In addition PIU will help Mizpah with teacher recruitment and development. We already have several students from Mizpah at PIU and with the help of the staff there we believe we will be able to get more students from Mizpah and from the other schools on Chuuk. We also hope that Mizpah will provide a place for our Chuukese PIU alumni and former students to complete their degrees in our distance education classes. We also hope to have Mizpah be a base for helping the Chuuk Department of Education with teacher training.
The biggest challenge for PIU will be to find the personnel to run our teaching facility in Chuuk. We are looking for someone with a masters degree or higher (preferably an MDiv or ThM) to coordinate and teach PIU classes in Chuuk. In addition this person could work with the high school and church. We would also like to find an English teacher who could teach our remedial courses and, in the high school to help the high school students meet our entry requirements. I will also be looking for high school teachers to supplement the local faculty at Mizpah. We are already talking with some Christian colleges in the US about sending their graduates and interns to Chuuk to meet these needs.
We at PIU are excited about the new partnership and are praying that God will bring us the people and resources needed to be effective.
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This is very exciting Dave. Congratulations!
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