{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Birth of Open Schools Worldwide | Calling Story Part 2 with Alan McIlhenny (Ep. 205)","description":"This week, hear the rest of the story from Alan McIlhenny, one of the co-founders of Open Schools Worldwide, with the mission to design and deliver life-changing learning to bring hope to marginalized children in developing countries worldwide.  Listen to Part 1 of the story here: Episode 204 Four legs of the table of education are vision, people, materials, methods, with Christ at the center \u201c[One of the biggest challenges] was finding the right people who understood the children that we were going to be working with.\u201d \u201cWe need to take care of our volunteer tutors and help them because they\u2019re being faced with awful situations that children should never have to face.\u201d \u201cWhen we are teaching the letter f, we talk about father, friends, and you can bring up discussions about friendship and the lack of fathers, which is common for so many of the kids.\u201d \u201cWe play a lot of games and try to make the lessons fun.\u201d \u201cWe called it Open Schools Worldwide because the need was worldwide.\u201d \u201cThe need is worldwide, and God is good [...] We were dreaming big.\u201d \u201cWe didn\u2019t have to seek out growth. People came to us. The story spread.\u201d \u201cWhen Angie, our director [...] tells me that we have 14,800 kids enrolled now, it just brings tears to my eyes. It\u2019s brilliant.\u201d \u201cPray about it and ask the Lord to open the doors.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve always prayed that the Lord would open a door for something, and that if it was wrong, He would close the door and that I would accept the door closing. It\u2019s easy to jump after things; it\u2019s not so easy to say, \u2018Well, maybe that\u2019s not quite right.\u2019\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t do something on my own, but praying for the right people to join me has been a way to move forward.\u201d \u201cI was a very shy, retiring, quiet person, and if someone had said to me what was going to happen, I would not have in any way believed them.\u201d What\u2019s changing our lives: Keane: Color-coded calendar to notice trends Heather: Road tripping with her brother\u2019s family Alan: Worshiping in a thousand-year-old building Weekly Spotlight: Open Schools Worldwide We\u2019d love to hear from you! podcast@teachbeyond.org Podcast Website: https:\/\/teachbeyond.org\/podcast Learn about TeachBeyond: https:\/\/teachbeyond.org\/ ","author_name":"Transformed & Transformational","author_url":"http:\/\/transformedandtransformational.libsyn.com\/website","html":"