Bøker av Nathan Frederick

Business for Transformation, B4T for short, is what it's called today, but back when Nathan Frederick started his career, there really wasn't a name for it. For him, it was just a strategy that made sense; if he was to be a witness for Christ in a place that didn't know anything about Christ (defined as least reached peoples), it stood to reason that he should have a job like everyone else. After all, why would being a witness for Christ among the least reached be any different than being a witness in his home culture? His job had always been the place where he had met new people, engaged in work and life, and talked about his faith. This is the story of Nathan's experiences as he sought to transform the lives of Indian Muslims. Over a period of ten years, Nathan moved his wife and two children to India and started an English language school in a small but densely populated area of a major cityi. Starting with a class of 13 students, he soon was teaching over 300 Muslim students monthly with a staff of eight teachers. Funny and brutally honest, Nathan describes in detail the steps he took to get to India, navigating the maze of red tape to a business there, and the people he grew to love in the "Muslim ghetto" of Fareed Nagar. A must-read for anyone thinking of being an overseas Christian worker, and for anyone who wants to be encouraged in their faith.

"You tryin'' to change us?"A few seconds into my first class ever, a student asked a question that had no answer. Then, he walked out.It was a fitting introduction to City High, inner-city education, and what would soon become the most challenging experience of my entire life. I was a white, middle-class, Midwestern man thrown into a Philadelphia school that had performed so poorly it was surrendered to state control. My next two years as a teacher at City High were hectic, heartbreaking, and at times, hilarious. I met students whose own lives seemed more dramatic than anything you might find in the movies. There was Manny, an oversized class clown with Ivy League dreams and a million-dollar smile, a city kid who liked NASCAR and got kicked out of Catholic school for carrying nun chucks. There was Romeo, a kid who got arrested for making his own adult films and Randy, a kid whose father was serving life in prison for shooting a police officer. And there were others too, every one of them struggling to survive in a city that would witness more than 400 homicides in a single year.I taught them all. I taught through the whirlwinds of overworked teachers, underfunded classrooms, and educational policies that often seemed more puzzling than practical. I taught kids who seemed to provoke every emotion possible, laughter and love and rage, often all of them in a single period.Maybe I made an impact, maybe they changed. I know I did.My story is different than all those feel-good, happy-ending Freedom Writer type films that seem to appear in theaters every few years.It is real. For real, for real.Nathan Frederick is a former sports reporter with more than 1,000 published bylines. His writing has won awards from the Keystone Press Association, the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Journalists, and the Associated Press Sports Editors. He currently lives and teaches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.