Jonah & the Whale by He Qi (China)
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In the Net
Long before Jesus commissioned His disciples to go to the ends of the earth to preach about moral repentance and spiritual revival, one man was commanded by God to do just that in a foreign land. God told Jonah: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." (Jonah 1:2)
Jonah attempted to sail to the opposite direction. God sent a storm that threatened the ship to break up. Eventually, the crew found out that Jonah was the reason for their misfortune. They threw him overboard. Jonah was swallowed by a whale. For three days, he stayed in its belly, praying for forgiveness. On the third day, the whale vomited him onto the beach. Jonah went all around Nineveh, telling its citizens to change their ways or else taste the consequences of their actions. They did reform and were spared of God's punishment.
Hello and ni hao! I'm Geo Alcala, webmaster of www.freewebs.com/JonahsNet. I built this site for all teachers who have a missionary's heart to teach English in countries that desperately need and want to learn this most international language (as well as share the Gospel of Love with them). Come join me in Jonah's net and be fishers of people!
About Me
Before I came to China, I had been director of my church's music-theater ministry. (Our musicals could be described as recycled muses -- they were simply a Frankenstein 
of songs from works by established artists, Christian and non-Christian. However, the songs were arranged in an original theme scripted by yours truly. But that's another story.)
Then I graduated from the University of the Philippines in March 1996 and a month later started teaching in China's Fujian Province. I was an English teacher, an art teacher and a cooking teacher at the Manila-Xiamen International School for two years. Then I returned to the Philippines in 1998. From 1998 to 1999, I was a nursery teacher at the Greenhills Christian Fellowship's International Christian School. From 1999 to 2000, I was an ESL teacher at the Global Resources for English Arts and Techniques in Manila. From 2000 to 2001, I was a ghost writer, researcher and editor for www.ourturf.com, a teen e-zine now dead, but not on my account (view "Dear Auntie Patty," a humorous column that I was working on but got aborted). From 2001 to 2002, I was the English Reading Coordinator for a Japanese educational institute. Since 2002, I've been an English teacher at Jiamusi University in Heilongjiang Province, China. (That's "Shaguar" Sun to my left, in the photo, one of my students at the International College at JU.)
If you're a Christian who's interested in teaching in China, visit my Q&A's page for more info.
