In 2003 John Eaves published a ten page booklet of the above title to give helpful suggestions and ideas to any who are trying to conduct structured conversations with international students to help them with the English language.
This game is a role-play, designed to be a fun and interactive learning experience. Participants ‘pack’ their bags with their host culture’s values. The game centers on the lively and often revealing exchange between the returnee and the customs officer.
This book by Nate Mirza, International Student Ministry Staff with The Navigators, is published by Dawson Media, a subsidiary of The Navigators (pub. 1993, revised and updated 2005).
The above case studies were compiled and edited by John Eaves, a greatly loved and respected Christian leader whose life was dedicated to helping international students on campuses in North America to find God, and God's will, for their lives.
Here is a very special workbook to help Christian international students begin to prepare for returning to their home country. It asks most of the questions an international should think about before returning.
Of interest to many international students from southeast Asia who are relatively new Christians is an awareness of local churches are like "back home" in their home country.
This interview is addressed to international students in a campus fellowship like Inter Varsity or those thinking of starting and leading an "International Student Fellowship" on a campus in North America.
A letter written in January 2004 by the daughter of pioneer missionaries, Robert and Dorothy Kitch, who established the first major mission printing operation in West Africa with SIM (the then "Sudan Interior Mission") in the early 1930s.
The testimony of an international student from Taiwan with Buddhist background who became a believer in Jesus Christ while a student in the United States and has become a worker for Christ in Asia.
Here is the website of IFES an affiliation of over 150 member movements worldwide (InterVarsity USA and Canada are two of the members) with ways to find out how to serve as a volunteer, campus worker or missionary.
Lisa Espineli Chinn has written two "reentry devotional Bible study" guides which, though designed for the western missionary returning home, have a lot of principles helpful to internationals returning home as well.
Chong Singsit came from India in the early 1980s from the Univ. of Delhi to start a PhD in the United States. Here is the story of how Christ has affected his life and given him a ministry both in North America and back in India.
