Based in the trendy district of a cosmopolitan Asian city, the business aims to capitalize on the young professionals and students swarming the growing city who want to Learn English. As the city's economic growth is increasingly tied to the West, knowing the language is a valuable tool.
 
The project is still waiting for government approval, but in the mean time, the center has started courses and conversation classes for free.  Book clubs, seminars, guest speakers, discussions groups, and a raft of English language sources including magazines and TV programs aim to provide a limitless range of ways to build relationships and entry points into discussions about the gospel.
 
Aided by a visiting team of six, Jonathan and company trained the local team on database and financial software, marketing strategies, and helped to run some of the seminars, allowing the local team to take a break.
 
"It was good work," said Jonathan, "besides certainly benefiting the people on the ground, these trips also expose the (U.S.) team to what this type of mission work looks like overseas."

"They are able to see normal life, traffic, having to deal with registration with the government, and other day-to-day life," Jonathan said. "That helps them to see how to better support and pray for projects, and helps people who are thinking about overseas (gospel) work to get a good picture of what it looks like," he added.
 
One of the visiting team also stayed behind for two weeks to develop a software manual.
"Increasingly, that's what we'd like to do: provide short-term, targeted help," Jonathan said, adding, "That's how we can scale our impact."
 
Besides being encouraged by the team and project-worker relationships, by God's grace, there's also already fruit to report! After reading the Bible with team members, two locals have since professed Christ as their Lord and Savior!