{"id":31657,"date":"2023-03-07T17:27:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=31657"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:31:29","slug":"31657-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/31657-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tr\u1ed9m c\u1eafp nh\u01b0 k\u1ebb gian – Stealing like a Villain (Vietnamese)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I am surrounded by articulate and erudite people[1]<\/a>, and because I want to write the story I want to read (p.47).\u00a0 Here is a portion of my \u201cidea\u201d that will be an endpoint in my NPO. \u00a0Drum roll please, \u201cLadies and Gentlemen, I introduce you to Interlinkt!\u201d<\/p>\n

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What is Interlinkt you wonder?\u00a0 Well it is a telephone app, that will assist International Newcomers (refugees, humanitarian parolees, asylum seekers) and those church volunteers who desire to welcome, help integrate, and love them into the kingdom.<\/p>\n

Volunteering at Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains doing their Job Training and English as a Second Language classes, I know that some caseworkers have 300 cases.\u00a0 On a good week that might mean 15 minutes with each client.\u00a0 The \u201cvolunteer\u201d however, has partnered with 3 other couples to wrap themselves around the international newcomer.\u00a0 They have time, but sadly, lack direction \u2013 according to Shanon Katsos, LFSRM volunteer coordinator.\u00a0 They need something to guide them through the process.<\/p>\n

Since everyone has a phone (refugees must also have a phone for all of their processing contact points), a free telephone app that guides the volunteer (empowering them) and the refugee (informing them), creates a more fruitful environment for quick integration into the local US communities.<\/p>\n

What does it look like?<\/p>\n

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I have hired a coder to create the app and we are going to Alpha test it this summer.\u00a0 Timeline, by May all 12 English language components, June = English and Spanish, July = English and Dari,\u00a0 August = English and Swahili. (Ambitious, but it is my mountain to climb).<\/p>\n

The Beta Test will be provided at a \u201cLaunch\u201d coinciding with the Metroplex Literacy Conference at the Dallas Baptist University Pilgrim Conference room (March 2, 2024).\u00a0 This conference is attended by around 120 ESL teachers from NGO\u2019s and churches.\u00a0 The International Newcomer sits in most of these classes.<\/p>\n

Kleon states that the Internet can be more than just a resting place to publish findings (p.82).\u00a0 In my plan, I will establish various media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc\u2026) that will allow my Alpha and Beta testers to provide improvement feedback. I spoke with a \u201cyoung\u201d person who understands the arcane practices of social media. They will serve as my social media consultant.<\/p>\n

On March 16, I am taking Kleon\u2019s advice and putting on a costume (suit and tie) to be pretend to be something I am not (p.30, #1 faking it) while visiting the George Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University (SMU) to discuss immigration policy recommendations. I will try to #2 \u2013 pretend to make something until I actually make something (i.e. introduce Interlinkt) \u00a0(p.30).<\/p>\n

Kleon says, let our passions talk to each other (p. 71).\u00a0 This project embraces my spiritual action verse Deuteronomy 10: 18, orphans, widows and the alien amongst us,\u00a0 two other passions \u2013 refugee assistance, and ESL instruction are intertwined in Interlinkt.\u00a0 I am using the ESL teachers at Dallas Baptist University and Pikes Peak State college to evaluate Interlinkt’s use of Krashen’s Comprehensive Input theory for ESL acquisition.\u00a0 (Bottom line: keep the ESL portion from becoming too boring).<\/p>\n

Because geography is no longer our master (p.86), I am finding like-minded S1 thinkers[2]<\/a> who desire to assist refugees and who are now branching into S2 thinking on the \u201chow to \u201d help.\u00a0 Mosiax \u2013 a Portland based coalition of churches, Mosiac \u2013 an NGO in Houston, Immigration Connection a network in Minnesota and of course World Relief (national and international resettlement agency) have expressed interest in Alpha and Beta testing.<\/p>\n

Today, I interviewed Cindy Wu who wrote, A Better Country: Embracing the refugees in our midst.<\/em> [3]<\/a>\u00a0 I decided to climb her family tree (p. 15) to find out who was pivotal in shaping her thoughts.\u00a0 Dr. Todd M. Johnson at Gordon-Cromwell Seminary emerged.\u00a0 So did Matthew Sorens, World Relief Church Mobilizer.<\/p>\n

Then tragedy struck!\u00a0 She mentioned to me an organization that was working on a similar project, https:\/\/usahello.org\/<\/a>.\u00a0 If I had not read Kleon\u2019s book I would have been devastated, but he reminds us that \u201cemulation is when imitating goes one step further, breaking into your own thing,\u201d (P.38)\u00a0 Shazam, I am saved!<\/p>\n

Kleon, which I am sure is short for Klingon, has struck some mini chords in my reading of his work.\u00a0 Listening to my cohort (a roman military formation) I was struck with how everything we read should enhance our NPO.\u00a0 So here it is.<\/p>\n

Why Vietnamese today? I just met\u00a0 Pastor Hia Luong in Oklahoma City who wants me to do the app in Vietnamese for his Send Relief Center.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Austin Kleon, Steal like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative<\/em> (New York: Workman Pub. Co, 2012), p.13.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/em>, 1st ed (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Cindy M. Wu, A Better Country: Embracing the Refugees in Our Midst<\/em>, Second (Littleton: William Carey Publishing, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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