ho We Are CHARACTER CHOICE TRAINING FACILITATORS

Character Choice training facilitators are leaders who are actively engaged in guiding children in the formation of their character and spiritual life. The majority have been involved in moral character education for more than thirty years.

Initially, many of our facilitators served together with Gospel Light Publications' International Center for Learning in the training of preschool and elementary volunteer teachers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Our team of educators expanded in 1991 when we accepted the challenge from the Ministry of Education of the former Soviet Union to develop a character education teacher seminar and a character curriculum for elementary schools. This invitation came as a result of Inspirational Films’ offer to provide a copy of the JESUS film for every school in Russia. The Russian Minister of Education said that they would allow a copy of the JESUS film in every school if a new curriculum also could be provided for the schools’ ethic and morality classes, which had been teaching only the communist worldview.

Our team created a Bible-based character curriculum and teacher seminars, and we used these resources to equip and train 73,000 public school teachers in Eastern Europe. We also conducted character education teacher seminars in Venezuela, Central America, the Philippines, and Malawi (Africa) throughout the 1990s.

During this time, our team members also served together with Campus Crusade's Children of the World, North America School Project, to equip parents and teachers to guide children in the formation of their character and spiritual life in public, private, home, and church school settings. Our curriculum was expanded to include stories and activities based on classic children's literature so that it could be used in public schools.

Writers and instructors who work in public, private, home, and church schools as well as in inner city and children at risk programs continue to be added to our team. To serve as a member of our team, they are required to be active in integrating, growing, and developing our character formation strategy in the program or ministry in which they work, teach, or serve as a volunteer. Currently we have team members living and working in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.