Assignment #2

I just added some new link categories: Philippines, Global Issues, Bible Teaching, Health, and Global Ethics.



As a missionary all of these topics are important an necessary for me. I refer family/friends/supporters in the United States to the "Philippines" link so that they could have an idea of what I would be experiencing living in the Philippines. It would also be a helpful tool for short terms teams that woul plan on coming to the Philippines for a few weeks. They would be able to read about the history of the Philippines as well as the governmental structure of the country. I have the business link there as well because many Filipinos try to make money by having their own business, unfortunately they all have the same business (and usually side-by-side) called sari-sari stores. These stores stock everything from candy to laundry detergent. So I believe that encouraging and helping Filipinos to come up with a business that they will have a corner on will be beneficial to them and their community.

I have a "Global Issues" category that I would use as a resource for myself, my students, and my supporters. It is always important to know what is going on in the world, and having quick links that are easy to access would help that. I would want to empower the kids that I teach in the Philippines with knowledge about everything, including the world. It would be very beneficial and important for them to know about global politics, weather, food shortages, etc. It would also be good for my supporters to have access to these links so that if something major (politically, weather, etc.) happened in the Philippines they would be able to know right away and respond (prayer, help) accordingly.

The "Bible Teaching" category is more for me and my students than it is for people who support me. It contains links that I could reference/use for Bible studies with my kids. It would also provide a link for the kids to do studies on their own, without me present. That would be ideal because it would show that they have a personal drive for God and his word.

"Health" would also be for me and my students, primarily. I think it would be good for my supporters to see what kind of hygiene problems the people in the Philippines face. Most of them contain solutions that we see as obvious, such as washing our hands before we eat after we pet an animal. These links will help me to correctly inform my students about hygiene and health care. It could also be used as a reference for the students if they had a question and I wasn't there to answer it, they could look it up themselves.

Just as I believe that education on global issues is empowering, so do I also believe that education on global ethics is important and empowering. If the students can become more aware of the world around them then they can be prepared to deal with it. They will contain a knowledge that not many of their peers would have, giving them an edge in the job world. Plus, they could then educate their peers and those younger than them so that the need for "importing" foreign teachers would dwindle, again creating more jobs.

I'm excited about these links and the ideas they spark in me about education in the third world and information gathering. The concept makes it easy and stress reduced to keep people updated on my ministry and help those that I'm educating to help themselves.