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A much needed welcome
Sue Withers has taught English for Speakers of Other Languages at Northampton Jesus Centre; she is currently doing the same in London Jesus Centre.Published: 11th Sep 2006
CAN YOU imagine yourself arriving, sometimes through difficulty, in a bewildering foreign environment where you can't speak the language?
"Can you imagine yourself grappling with incomprehensible forms, unable to understand the signs in a supermarket, baffled by the GP receptionist or dumb in the face of hostility?
"In my career as an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher my students have told me stories like these.
"In the Jesus Centre our aim is to teach immediate survival English to those at the lowest level of speaking and listening, but also improve the literacy, pronunciation and grammar of more advanced students.
"Classes can be a shock to those who expect to...
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We needed two miracles
A year has made an enormous difference in the lives of Colin and Lorraine - thanks to their involvement in the Northampton Jesus Centre.Published: 21st Jan 2004
COLIN Witkowski and Lorraine Cheape had been together for four years when a friend had suggested they try heroin 'for the buzz.'
"I thought 'I'm not going to get addicted'" explains Lorraine. "But we didn't realise what it was like. The buzz soon stopped and we woke up ill, because we needed another hit. Then we realised it had got us. After that, we couldn't start the day without a hit and went from smoking to injecting and shop-lifting to get the money. We both got caught and sent to prison."
Things went from bad to worse. One day in 2000, they came home to find they'd been evicted. Their belongings were out in the street and the locks had been changed.
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