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Cornerstone's new program graduates first students

Cornerstone University is celebrating a milestone in one of their programs that will have implications for missions work at home and abroad, reports MNN.

The university's new Teaching English as a Second Language Masters Program just graduated its first students. Cornerstone's Michael Pasquale: "There were 15 in this first graduating class. There were students from Mexico, Dominican Republic, and South Korea. We have a graduate, after graduation, who packed up his family and moved to Mexico as missionaries."

Pasquale views this as a service to missionaries in the field. "The program is designed to be primarily on-line, so we can have missionaries take the program from all over the world. They could fit it into their already-busy schedules."

According to Pasquale, this is a great need. "In any mission field around the world, it seems like English is a key component for missionary outreach, and we see that growing and not slowing down. And even if you think about English-speaking countries, we're seeing many immigrants coming into those communities wanting to learn English as well."

The TESOL program also helps prepare teachers to share their faith in a teaching environment.

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[12/16/2008]

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