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International Visitor Exchange Program (I.V.E.P.)
IVEP is a vocational and cultural exchange program. International young adults between the ages of 18 - 30 from 30 countries, come to Canada and the United States for one year. Participant qualifications: • Committed to the Christian faith actively participating in their church • High moral standards • Unmarried • Between 18 and 30 years old • Preference given to members of Mennonite or Brethren in Christ Churches. • From countries involved in the programs (see Application Process) Learn more about this program at the I.V.E.P. web site Wang Ying comes to Oregon She is a young lady (30) from Nanchong, China who loves children and teaching. She will be living with the Pam and Paul Miller family and working as a library and instructional assistant at Ninety-One school. She has chosen Leah as an american name. On Sunday, August 14, Leah was introduced and welcomed to our congregation by Ken Reeder, treated to her first Chinese dinner by the Reeder and Gingerich families, followed by a Bar-BQ at the Reeder home. A day to remember. 
The following information from Leah's application will help you get acquainted. I am a Chinese. I was born in Si Chuang Province on Jan.,23rd, 1975. My father was a teacher. He passed away 6 years ago. My mother was a worker. Now, she is retired. I have an older sister. She is an engineer working in Shang Hm. I graduated from the Nan Chong High School in 1993. Then I went to a college and studied for two years, majored in accounting. Then I worked in a national company as an office assistant for two years. In 1997, I went to a university in Shang Hai to continue studying in accounting for another two years and I got my bachelor degree. After I graduated, I started to work in a foreign company in Shang Hal as an accountant. Two years later, that was 2001, I went to Sheng Yang to learn spoken English and hoped to go back to Shang Hai to get a better position in my career after my English got improved. But one decision changed my life, I got to know God and believed in Him when I was in Sheng Yang. I started to think about the real meaning of life and how can I let my life be meaningful. After one year's studying, I started to teach English in the training center I studied. I found myself enjoyed teaching a lot. In the same time, I was also trained how to teach English as a second language by some professional American English teachers. My teaching stopped in May, 2003 due to the SARS. In fact, I started to work half day for the GM of the company from the beginning of 2003. When the training center closed because of the SARS, I worked full time as the GM assistant until I left. I came back to my hometown here in Nan Chong on Jan, 2004. My plan was to teach English here and help my hometown's people. I joined the local church after I came back and started to serve in the youth fellowship and teach in the church's English fellowship every Mon. evening. I also began to teach the Sunday School. I enjoyed the church life a lot. In my career, I started a home school on Feb, 2004. I had 8 students for the first semester and I have 35 now. I love them very much. They are a blessing to me. I enjoy the teaching more and more and hope to learn more so that I can do this job better. I also hope I can help my hometown's people better in the future. Robbie Reeder goes to China |
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