Literacy Missions Training: Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) | Dacula

Announcement: English as a Second Language (ESL) Workshop
– Dacula (Gwinnett County), GA

(Training for a church or associational outreach ministry to teach conversational English while demonstrating and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with your students without knowing their languages.)

Dates:
Saturday, March 23, 2019, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm; and
Sunday, March 24, 2019, 1:00 pm – 5:45 pm.
(Must attend all hours of instruction for North American Mission Board certification.)

Location:
Hebron Baptist Church
202 Hebron Church Road
Dacula, GA 30019
      Modular F, directly behind Worship Center

Cost:
$35.00 (Includes Workshop Manual, refreshments, and lunch on Saturday)
Please make check payable to: “Hebron Baptist Church”
Please note on the memo line of your check: “ESL Workshop”
Mail your check to: Glenda Jalbert
( Hebron Baptist Church, P.O. Box 279, Dacula, GA 30019 )

Contact Person:
Glenda Jalbert – (770) 962-3671, Ext. 243 / gjalbert@hebronchurch.org Online registration link: https://hebronchurch.org/calendar/#/event/43900

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

Statistical Information:
1. The 2014 U.S. Census estimated that the noted percentages of the population (5 years of age and above) in the following communities reflect those who speak a language other than English at home:

Atlanta: 10.8%
Auburn: 15.0%
Chamblee: 48.1%
Dacula: 36.4%
Decatur: 11.6%

Doraville: 64.6%
Duluth: 34.9%
Lawrenceville: 35.3%
Lilburn: 41.8%
Loganville: 16.3%

Norcross: 58.3%
Snellville: 21.6%
Stone Mountain: 6.9%
Suwanee: 26.4%
Tucker: 24.6%

2. According to www.PeopleGroups.info (a NAMB/IMB website), there are 3,248 in Dacula’s two adjacent U.S. Census Tracts who speak a language other than English at home, and those languages include:

Spanish: 1,532
Serbo-Croatian: 306
Vietnamese: 235
African languages: 231

Other Indo-Europ. lang’s: 229
French: 227
Mon-Khmer,Cambodian: 153
Korean: 98

German: 77
Russian: 69
Persian: 47
Hindi: 44

For information about …
A. other workshops, please click here;
B. hosting your own workshop, please contact:

Paulette DeHart,
Georgia Baptist Literacy Missions Missionary
Phone: 770.979.0588
E-mail: pdehart@gabaptist.org
Website: www.literacymissions.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/literacymissions
“ … and you are to love those who are aliens … “
– Deuteronomy 10:19