Debbie Blane
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Debbie Blane was appointed in June 2007 to serve as an English teacher in China with the Amity Foundation.

To prepare for her work with Amity, she studied in the Applied Linguistics Department at St. Michael's College in Burlington, Vermont, in their English as a Second Language diploma program.

Debbie is assigned to the China Pharmaceutical College in Nanjing, China. She teaches oral English to first- and second-year English majors.

One of China’s most important cities, Nanjing is the capital of the Jiangsu Province. It sits on the banks of the Yangsi River and forms part of the Yangtze River Delta economic zone. It is a national hub of education, research, transportation and tourism. It is also the second-largest commercial center in the East China region, behind only Shanghai.

Letters from
Debbie Blane

• March 2008
• February 2008 (2)
• February 2008 (1)
• January 2008
• December 2007
• November 2007
• October 2007

“I did not see China coming,” writes Debbie. “I felt called to international ministry and to college campus ministry. Teaching English is a bit off the beaten path for a minister, but what I found in my student teaching experience at St. Michael’s College is that when I am with the students it feels as it did when I was at Trinity Lutheran College in a pastoral role—natural and fulfilling. I do not stop being a minister while teaching English, I am just doing God's work in a different setting.”

Prior to her departure for China, Debbie held an uncompensated position at Trinity Lutheran College as assistant to the Biblical Studies Department, where she did pastoral care, mentoring, and vocational counseling for pre-seminary students. Prior to this call, Debbie describes herself as a “full-time mom and full-time student,” having completed her bachelor's degree in 1997 and her master's of divinity in 2001. Her graduation from seminary and her daughter's graduation from high school occurred just one week apart.

Debbie has a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in Seattle, Washington, and a bachelor’s in Biblical studies from Trinity Lutheran College in Issaquah, Washington.

Debbie was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament on September 29, 2002, by the Presbytery of Cascades.

She is the mother of two adult children: a son, Andrew, who works for a cell phone company in Sammamish, Washington, and a daughter, Elizabeth, a college student, who was married two days before Debbie left for her ESL training in Vermont.
 
Birthday – August 26