• Mar. 16, 2009
Teaching Tip: Adopt a Missionary Family
Adopt a missionary family. Together with your children learn everything you can about the country and people group with which the missionaries work. Experiment with recipes of the food they eat. Put together scrapbooks depicting the geography, agriculture, and industry. Learn about the religious beliefs of the people and their form of government. Find out how their culture impacts the ways the people think and act and why it differs from us. Practice phrases in the language. Learn how the missionaries explain the gospel to their people group, etc.
Together with your children, write to your missionary. If they have children, maybe they would like to be pen pals with your children. Most importantly, pray for your missionary family. Consider what your family can do to help support them.
As Christian homeschoolers, studying missions is one of the most important areas in which to be involved. Christ instructed us to "go into all the world..." This certainly is a reason to study geography, history, anthropology, and foreign languages.
Since this blog is geared towards learning Spanish we encourage you to look for missionary families in Spanish speaking countries. For example Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Spain, etc. Hispanic people love to share their language with others so ask your missionary family if any of the kids in their church would want to be pen pals with your kids. This would be a great way for your kids to learn to translate as well as read and write Spanish. It's a great way to reiterate their Spanish skills.
In order to find missionary families contact your church denominations' missions department. If your denomination doesn't have any missionaries in Spanish speaking countries, just write to me, Michelle@dorahomeschoolspanish.com, and I can get you hooked up.
Blessings to you until next time,
Michelle Rothwell, Founder
Dora & Diego Homeschool Spanish
The most comprehensive Biblically-based Spanish text.
