Within the next few months the Rescue Mission is going to be upgrading our technical equipment to be able to stream classes from our Challenge Learning Center at our New Life Sq. Campus in downtown Tacoma to two of our other campus’ on Tyler Sq and Adams St., and vice versa.
These valuable classes cover issues such as Genesis Drug Recovery Classes, Life Skills Classes and basic education classes. We are doing this for a number of reasons.
1. Quality of teaching. Like all Rescue Missions I imagine, We have to teach a number of classes daily to the men and women in our programs, but we do not have a resources to hire enough teachers that would allow for the instructors to go deep in one or two particular subjects. With the ability to stream the classes from one site to another we can use each teacher within their one or two strongest subjects and stream it to the other sites.
2. Quantity of teachers/teaching. Right now we are limited by resource constraints on how many teachers we can have on staff. This new strategy will effectively multiply the quantity of teaching we have available to our students at each location because the classes will be available to them live and saved on our site for future viewing.
3 Better Stewardship. Our plan to stream our classes live will allow us to expand our reach without adding significant more staff positions at our new family campus. Our goal is always to see lives transformed through our work at the Rescue Mission, but in pursuing that goal we make a promise to our donors, that we will be effective and efficient with their charitable investment. This will allow us to fulfill both of those goals.
4. Partnership. While I dont’ know of any other Missions that are streaming their daily classes, as time goes on we will be able to seek partnerships with other Missions, schools and ministries. There are endless possibilities for expanded learning opportunities for those we serve in future use of this technology.
I’m curious what you think. Are there other potential uses, advantages and partnerships that we’ve not yet thought of? Do you know of other missions that are streaming their daily drug rehabilitation classes that would be open to partnership? Give me your feedback.
DC
I have been in The New Life Program for over five months now and this are some of my thoughts. I have two Masters Degrees and I can honestly say that this system is far advanced compared to those years in college; in fact I still really can not believe it! The classes, the classes are so professional and we have an over abundance of experts here teaching us daily about Jesus. It does not compare to anything I have experienced in my 14 years in college, and the reason for that is unmistakingly because all the mentors, guest speakers, staff, housing, resources, volunteers, donations, and so much more are without a question from God working in our lives and the willingness to honestly share God’s unlimited gifts for us.
I am more happy now than I have ever been in my life, miricles are happening everyday for us and before I was never used to that at all. Honesty, ambition, and extrem motivation are the norm. I could use fancy words to discribe the existance here at the Mission, but that would be insulting. God runs things here and it is very obvious. His gifts are for everyone who wants them and I do! My fears are mostly gone and the ones I do have are being disolved through prayer and menitation. Just like the words that I am recieving are not from me, but God controls my life, my hands and my fingers too, otherwise the words above would be a superficial expression of self and disappointing to me. I just Love this place and all of you.
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That’s so awesome Edward. Keep with it. God has big plans for your life. David
I believe we all need gods love and acceptens I injoyed this story god bless
I am wondering if some of the classes could be made (eventually, if not now) into videos, with live streaming question/answer/discussions afterward. Or perhaps high quality videos are already available that could be used for some of the classes (parenting, budgeting, math, whatever) with live streaming video questions and discussions afterward.
Videos are a great idea. We are starting to make a few of Marty’s Friday agternoon presentations, dynamic of course, thanks for so many reasons. I have made a couple of movies in college and did all the editing myself, All I would really need now is a good camera and some editing software.