Cornerstone looking for ESL applicants

Friends, I need your help to identify potential teachers for one of our neighborhood schools in Binghampton. Cornerstone Prep - Lester Campus is in need of two ESL teachers. If you know of potential candidates please direct them to send a resume and cover letter expressing their interest to Cornerstone's Executive Director, Drew Sippel, DSippel@cornerstoneprepmemphis.org. In my opinion this is a once in a life time opportunity to work with an incredible school on the cutting edge of education reform in America. 

Earlier this year the state of Tennessee's Achievement School District (ASD), granted Cornerstone Prep the right to manage Lester Middle School as a charterschool for the next five years. If Cornerstone is successful at raising Lester's TCAP scores, the conversion will become permanent. For more information on the conversion process click here.

Lester is an important part of Binghampton's history and cultural heritage. Many of my neighbors are proud to call it their alma mater. We all desperately want to see the school succeed and the students thrive. My sincere belief and hope is that the leadership at Cornerstone Prep - Lester Campus will be an agent for positive change in our community.

You can be a part of helping us to ensure that the refugees of our community share in the benefit of this school by reposting this message to your facebook page, so that we can find quality ESL teachers as soon as possible.

Thanks for your help.

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"Storming the Gates of Hell" - Nathan Cook

Check out Nathan Cook's challenging talk from the Global Health Missions Conference

Refugee Jewelry Program

There are hundreds of refugee women in Memphis... women who want to contribute to their families financially, learn new skills, become more independent, and build friendships with other women. Our hope is to see women achieve these goals through creating and selling handmade jewelry.

To date we have spent one year brainstorming, researching, learning, preparing, and finally teaching a small group (10+women) the skills of jewelry-making. We just finished our 8 week course of basic skills, and it's so exciting to see many of the women advancing, and taking ownership of their new talent! We hope that early next year we will have a group of women proficient in their skills, ready to sell their jewelry to make an income for them and their families. 

We are currently looking for venues from which to sell our product, and ideas on how we can make this ministry as successfull as possible for these women!

If you have ideas, questions, are interested in hosting a fundraiser, or are interested in purchasing, please contact: 

Steve Moses

steve@ministri.es

If you would like to donate so we can purchase supplies, tools, and other necessities for this project, you can do so below!

*Just make sure to use the designation "jewelry" when donating*

BINGHAMPTON BAYOU BASH 2011

Join us this year for crawfish and a cornhole tournament. Each team's registration is $35 (2 players) and includes a double-elimination cornhole tournament plus a crawfish meal. If you don't want to play (but who doesn't), then you can still enjoy the crawfish for $15. 

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