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ILC Mission is
  • Help students understand English and speak English more clearly.
  • Share the love of God and what He means to us.
  • Impact world relations as we build relationships with students who will become leaders in their countries.
 
The International Learning Center of Santa Fe River Baptist Association is a literacy school teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESL).  Our school was established in 1976.   Our student body is varied.  We have students who are doctors, chemist, pharmacists and professors; however we also have students who have little education in their native language.  Our students are young adults to senior adults.  We welcome all regardless of age or nationality.

Awards Received

International Learning Center Receives 2009 Best of Gainesville Award; U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement



WASHINGTON D.C., March 20, 2009 -- For the second consecutive year, the International Learning Center of Santa Fe River Baptist Association has been selected for the 2009 Best of Gainesville Award in the Religious Organizations category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).


 The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

 

Nationwide, only 1 in 70 (1.4%) 2008 Award recipients qualified as 2009 Award Winners. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.




Student testimonials

The International Learning Center Is a Place to Make Friends for Eternity

Bob Crane (member, Alachua, First Church; at left) has been a volunteer teacher at our International Learning Center for more than seven years and has made many international friends there. Recently two of his former students, Abelardo and Milagros, and their sons stopped by to visit Bob on their way to Disney World. In the five years since Bob had seen them, the family returned to Peru but Abelardo was without work for almost eighteen months and Milargo became pregnant but lost her baby. They were able to overcome these difficulties, they told Bob, in part because their Christian faith had been made stronger in their time as students at the ILC. So, they are very thankful for their experience as students at the ILC where they heard the gospel and were encouraged as Christians. Praise the Lord!


More Friends at the ILC

Mary Lynne Moore, director of the ILC, recently met Thuvan and her daughter at Publix. She was a student of Pat Rayos (far left; member, New Hope Church) for 1 ½ years and is from Vietnam. Mary Lynne gives a lanyard with an name tag attached to all students and teachers to help them identify one another at the school. Although Thuvan finished learning at the ILC over a year ago, she is still wearing her official ILC lanyard with her keys and i.d. tag attached, even at Publix!

 

Now, that shows how much our students love the ILC. Mary Lynne says that Thuvan was so excited to see her and, especially, her teacher that she jumped up and down while she was hugging them. The ILC is certainly building great relationships. (Mary Jayne Orr (member, Country Crossroads Church), another volunteer with the ILC, is at the far right.)