125 Years
125 Stories
118 Daylight—
Working While It Is Day Daylight USA and Daylight International are two MLC programs that have taken off in the 2000s—and taken our students with them. Daylight USA facilitates the placement of about 200 students a year in congregations all over the country. Often with the financial support of WELS Kingdom Workers, students offer ministerial assistance and humanitarian aid wherever it is needed. Between 2005 and 2007, for instance, almost 80 students assisted Hurricane Katrina victims. MLC’s Daylight International program facilitates the one- and two-year teaching engagements of MLC students and graduates in international venues, including Albania, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Malawi, Mexico, Russia, Taiwan, and Thailand. Some 40-50 of our students can be found teaching overseas every year. In addition to their classroom duties, they might assist missionaries, lead Bible classes, and evangelize in their neighborhoods or schools.
2006 Jeremiah Drews and other students assisted with clean-up in Nicollet, Minnesota, after an August 24 tornado.
MLC graduate Rachel Kionka spent a year in Malawi, teaching at an international school and an orphan school. She wrote of her Christian brothers and sisters in Malawi: “The joy hits before you even get out of the truck. The choir sways out of the small brick church, clapping and dancing. Then they begin to sing. It is a sound you’ve never heard before; the harmonies are more brilliant, more penetrating. Stepping down onto the dirt, you realize you will never be the same again.” “Never the same again.” When our students return from their international experiences, they are different people—with a deeper understanding of the diversity of humankind, with new teaching methodologies picked up from professionals around the world, with an awareness of need, disease, and loneliness, and with a deeper knowledge of the world’s desperate need for Christ’s forgiveness.
2008 Rachel Kionka taught in Malawi for a year after her MLC graduation.
“Providing educational leadership with a global outlook” is part of MLC’s mission; Daylight International is one way we try to meet that goal.
2007 Zach Seeger submitted this photo to MLC’s annual Thalassa Prize competition. Zach and his wife, Becky, worked in China for three years after their graduation. In 2010, about 20 graduates are hoping to serve a year in China.
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