Deb Talley wanted to jump outside her comfort zone. She wanted to be stretched. She wanted to grow. She found the opportunity to do it all at ACU, far from her hometown of Mombasa, Kenya.

They sit on the floor in the hall or on a rug in the classroom - anywhere but behind a fifth-grade size desk. To a teacher from the old-school way of doing things, it looks and sounds a little like chaos. But to Dr. Sheila Delony it looks like the perfect setting for learning and to Toni Wellhausen it’s "a life-changing experience."