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Volume I November 8, 2011 Issue 6

Chapter and Verse
News, Announcements and Updates for Friendship House Teachers

Teacher Training Dec. 15 Please mark your calendars
for a teacher training being held at Friendship House on Thursday,
December 15. Two training times are being offered: 3:00 pm and 7:00
pm to accommodate multiple schedules. Our trainer will be Friendship
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received her degree in German from Valparaiso University in 2008 and
spent the following year as an English Language Teaching Assistant in
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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from MSU in May
KeIIyhaslaughllhefoIIovingcIassesalMSUs English Language
Center over four semesters: beginning and advanced speaking/listening, intermediate "content"
(culture), intermediate reading and writing. She has also done private ESL tutoring as well as
teaching conversation skills over the internet to students in Korea. At Friendship House, Kelly led
English Conversation classes for three semesters. She is a member at Martin Luther Chapel.
Please let me know if you can attend the 3:00 pm or 7:00 pm training and which time works for
you (friendshiphousemsu@gmail.com).

New Upcoming Events Attached to this issue of Chapter & Verse is an expanded list of
upcoming events for November-December. The sign-up sheet for all events is at the Friendship House;
please encourage your students to consider participating. If you are able to drive to any of these
events, or know of people who can be a volunteer driver, please let me know. Thank you!

2012 Winter/Spring Semester We slarlregislralionfornexlsemeslerscIasseson
Monday, November 21. If you do not plan on continuing your class next semester, or want your class
to have a new title and descriptions, please let me know as soon as possible. Registrations will be done
on our new website. A few new classes are being added to: (1) address anticipated student registration
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Registrations will close December 9 so as to give teachers time to plan lessons and identity needed
resources.

Those Pesky Exceptions! I have allowed late registrations this semester (and teachers
have been generously flexible!). A thought for next semester is to allow late registrations up to 2 weeks
after the start of classes and then close registrations unless teachers ask for an exception themselves,
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meaning sludenlsvanlinglolakeacIassfromasecificleachervouIdneedlogellheleachersOK
before they could be added. What do you prefer? The incidence of people requesting late registration
will doubtless continue and rather than turn them away, we have a couple of classes willing to accept
new students throughout the semester: Casual English Conversation, Ask the Experts and some of our
Bible classes. If you are willing to accept late registration students in your class(es), please let me
know.

I have also allowed a few students to take as many classes as they wish. In most cases, these are either
students taking Bible classes or students in the U.S. for a relatively short time. Our dear friend, Eun
Mo, seems to be a permanent member of all Friendship House classes and she so appreciates the
welcome she receives. If you believe allow exceptions to the 3-class limit is disruptive in any way,
please let me know (the limit applies to English, not Bible, classes).

New Tradition So as to honor our International students and Visiting Scholars upon their
return to their home countries, a certificate of completion will be presented to them at one of their last
cIassesIlsagold embossed certificate, with gold seal and presentation folder. It is something that
will hopefully serve as a keepsake from Friendship House. It is signed by the Board President and
executive director. Please stop in the office to take a look at a sample if you have time. Our first
recipients are Ebru (Turkey) and Alieen (China), both of whom flew home on October 31
st
. Our next
recipient is Jie who returns to China December 4. If you know of other students returning home (other
than for a visit) in the next two months, please let me know.

New Tutors Rick & Amy Oldejans are new Friendship House MSU tutors. They started
working with International sludenlslhroughMSUsCVIP program, after which they became English
language tutors on Monday evenings at Trinity Church, a program where they continue to teach. They
were introduced to Friendship House by Teacher Jodi
who they know through Riverview Church. Amy is a
graduate of the University of Michigan (but she is a
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Practitioner). Rick is a graduate of Michigan State
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works as a Franchise Business Consultant in the
corporate offices of Two Men and a
Truck/International, Inc. HeresvhalRickAmysay
about their desire to help International students: We
find serving in this way to be deeply rewarding as many of our relationships have transitioned into wonderful
friendships. What we like about the church sponsored programs for tutoring is that in our experience the Bible is
generally used as our text. This provides us with an opportunity to discuss our faith to a much greater extent
with those who are interested in learning more about Jesus and the Bible.

Congratulations Kaye! As many of you may know, Kaye Kahl recently joined the
Friendship House Board of Directors. Congratulations, Kaye! We are so appreciative of your past and
future service. You have demonstrated great commitment to our program and a love for its people,
especially students. We pray that God will grant you wisdom in your new leadership role!

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Bibles Have Moved Thanks to the hard work of Beth Benson, we can report that she has
consolidated all Bible translations to the corner bookcase of the Friendship House living room. In
addition, she put alIIngIish-onIyibIesinlhenevbookcaseinlheGardenRoom (Mary Lou has
moved one set of these back to the living room bookcase for use in her Thursday Bible class). She also
completed the inventory of all of our Bibles, which will, in time, be shared with you via email so you
can quickly match any student needs with what we have on hand.

From Anna Anna was recently in contact extending all her best wishes to all of you and
shared the following, very interesting link that she asked me to share with you (thank you Anna!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14812822

Thank you Please forgive any omissions of appreciation in this section (and let me know
what I may have missed). Friendship House has been the recipient of many blessings since I last wrote,
including . . . Beth Benson for her many hours of just plain hard work in helping organize the
Friendship House office and consolidating Bibles, books and resource materials . . . Dawn Rosenbloom
for spending almost 20 hours deep cleaning Friendship House, including scrubbing woodwork, walls,
ceilings, baseboards and lavatories, washing windows and much, much more . . . Don Christensen for
his continued work on Friendship House maintenance . . . Carol & Don Christensen for donating the
new hot water urn in the Friendship House kitchen, and also for tulip bulbs which Don planted, lining
the edge of the front porch . . . Hollyce Balentine, an MSU senior from Martin Luther Chapel, who has
agreed to be a volunteer consultant with us on the use of social media tools . . . Mary Lou Krause and
her class for planting tulip bulbs at the base of the welcome light in front of Friendship House . . . Peter
Bullock for donating the beautiful photographic art for the Garden Room . . . Tom Corwin for
volunteering additional time both to tutor and take a group of International students to the November
5 MSU football game . . . Board members Dave Knecht and Jeff Andresen for recent stints as Experts for
Mondays Ask the Experts class. . . and last, but certainly not least, Wes Thorp for volunteering
enormous amounts of time and amazingexerliseinbuiIdingIriendshiHousescommunicalions
plan, leading Ask the Experts, and countless hours of blogging, editing and much more.

Sign Up! Please sign up your email on the Friendship House MSU website at
www.friendshiphousemsu.org. Also, check out our new Friendship House MSU Facebook fan page at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friendship-House-MSU/112819728824007. Thanks!

Verse for the Week

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?" (Romans 8:32)

May God richly bless your day!