Overview of Teachers in Service, Inc.

TIS is a Christian organization founded by Thom Votaw

• TIS is devoted to the recruitment of teachers for children of overseas missionaries.

• TIS recruits teachers to fill vacant positions so missionary parents will continue their calling to serve the Lord where they are, knowing their children are provided for.

• TIS exists because of a beckoning call from our LORD as relayed by Bob Pittman, then Director of Children’s Education with Wycliffe Bible Translators on September 30, 1997, in Huntington Beach, California.

Teachers in Service, Inc (TIS) is a non-profit 501C3, Christian ministry that works with Christian missionaries worldwide. Some missionaries have children who need to attend a school or learning center. TIS pursues teachers for both situations.

Please see testimonials about the value of and need for teachers in these situations from parents, teachers, and administrators.

One of the most common reasons missionaries leave the field is because of some issue with the school or learning center in which their children are enrolled. This includes a lack of teachers for their children. This is unacceptable to us!

While other organizations are involved with teacher recruitment efforts, vacancies remain. This is where TIS comes in. After 27 years, TIS is going through a reconstruction period from a one-man ministry to a more aggressive and aspirational ministry.

Indeed, it is now time for TIS to take what is in motion, develop a plan, form a team, divide up the work, and transform the ministry into a dimension

that builds on the existing foundation, to fill the remaining teaching vacancies.