Foreign Teachers & Coaches
Over the past ten years, teachers and coaches from the United States, Britain, Hong Kong, Norway and South Africa have come all the way to Taiwan to volunteer for our camp! Yes volunteer! Christians from around the world have paid their own way to invest a week in the lives of young Taiwan students. The majority of our foreign teachers can speak NO Chinese, which means campers will be hearing LOTS of English all week long. This is the best possible environment to be in if you want you English to improve quickly.
Missionaries
Part of our staff are foreign missionaries who have lived in Taiwan for many years and are now bi-lingual. Becuase they have spent lots of time They are familiar with the local culture and have a huge heart for the Taiwan people.
Local Taiwan Staff
Local Taiwanese Christians from around the island are the third key part to our staff. Living a week away from home, surrounded by foreigners speaking English can be a challenging experience for many of our campers. Most of our Taiwanese staff are bi-lingual as well, and share the common cultural background with our campers. We rely on them greatly to help communicate important information and help out in situations that need local knowledge and fluent language abilities.
We regret to inform you that the Sports and English Camp planning team has made the difficult decision to CANCEL both weeks of Sports and English Camp 2020. The governmental restrictions currently in place limiting group gatherings, social distancing regulations, lack of facility availability due to COVID-19 safety measures, as well as potential risks associated with COVID-19 have all been factors in this decision. Due to the COVID-19 situation, we feel strongly that we need to protect you, the campers, as well as the entire Taiwan community and we are uncomfortable with the risk of spreading any illness.
We hope to see you over the summer even though we won’t be spending the week together at camp. We have some other smaller-scale events that we are currently planning and will announce those events on our website and Facebook page when we have more information.
We also want you to know that we will do everything we can to have Sports and English Camp in 2021. We are excited about the changes we have been working on and plan to hold one week of camp for college aged students and one week of camp for high school students.
We do want to encourage you to join one of our weekly small group meetings or start a group with your friends. We love to spend time with you and our greatest passion is to support, encourage, and lead young people as you grow in relationship with each other and with Jesus Christ. Please tell us how we can support you, we would love to hear from you!
God bless you,
The Sports & English Camp Planning Team