Megan

Writer, Teacher, ESL Teacher, & Missionary for 26 Years

Why She Became Interested in This Job: The Lord set her on this path and helped her choose a career based on what interested her. She is able to use her English studies and fiction writing as a way to share the Gospel. When thinking of her career, she is very “thankful to Sonlight for its role in preparing the soil of her heart to receive the Gospel when it was brought to her door by Baptist missionaries.” This ministry inspires her work now, including being involved in missions in her husband’s home region.

Favorite Part of the Job: She enjoys doing her job well. 

Least Favorite Part of the Job: She doesn’t like set schedules, but teaching can sometimes require a routine. 

Skills Needed for Job:

📚 Reading, as she has to review her own work as well as her students'.  

✒️ Writing, as a part of her job 

🗣️ Foreign language skills, as she has to communicate with her ESL (English as a Second Language) students.

*Pictured: A writer hard at work, writing in a journal

Her Advice for Aspiring Authors & Storytellers:  “You need to love not only learning but also language and people.”

Her Advice to All Learners: “Sonlight is the perfect preparation for any career that requires a heart for the Gospel and a love of literature."