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International Witnessing Communities

33 Articles:

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).

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.

"Crosscultural specialist Patty Lane shows us how to develop hands-on relational skills that help build crosscultural friendships, providing practical resources for navigating multicultural environments with sensitivity and savvy."

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.

Topics: Starting from scratch, building an international ministry team, nurturing the team.

Neighborhood Bible Studies" is a group formed in the 1950s to develop "dynamic studies for adults exploring the Bible in small discussion groups."

Nick and Ellen Gawryletz, staff with ISMC in Canada, authored this multiple-choice Bible study guide of Acts for use among international friends. A Christian leader should make sure there is discussion of the Biblical text for each question.

A list of websites for various organizations and agencies offering Bibles and other materials in a variety of languages.

International student leadership teams face many cultural barriers to success. Professor Arasaratnam shares insights on overcoming some of these obstacles.

Interested contemporary (guitar) songs and traditional (keyboard) hymns? It's all here!

This international student fellowship group has been in existence at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York now for over two student generations. It is an excellent example of the type of fellowships that are springing up all over North America.

Christian Aid is an evangelical mission board that locates and evaluates indigenous ministries based in poorer countries, or where evangelical Christians are a persecuted minority.

Sources of lyrics and audio for worship songs from many cultures and languages

A series of 13 Bible studies on women in the Bible has been designed (and is being copywrited) for use with international students learning English as a second language.

This article is for Christian internationals needing to find housing and related practical concerns on arrival in the States.

Did you know you’re part of a huge international fellowship that spans the entire globe? If you’re a member of an Inter-Varsity chapter, then you’re also a part of the student movement called IFES. Here's a piece of its history!

Author of the book, Impossible Community (IVP), Barbara Benjamin Archilla writes about her multi-cultural background, immigrant grandparents and experiences as an adult missionary in Ecuador and among students in New York City.

How the Cornell International Christian Fellowship is organized...including "Putting Things in Perspective: A Typology of Campus Christian Groups" and "Practicalities of Developing a Fellowship."

Check out the documents below to learn about the curriculum.

International Witnessing Communities: what they are and their value; critical success factors; how to start and maintain such a group on campus.

This issue as it appears on paper is 16 pages long and is distributed to over 11,000 in the Inter Varsity USA family plus many outside of Inter Varsity. It is also available free of charge as an acrobat e-mail attachment for anyone without website access.

This article was written for the InterVarsity Annual Report by one of the staff writers who gleaned various stories from reports of InterVarsity field staff since 9/11/2001.

The Monday, January 26, 2004 issue of the Daily Trojan, the University of Southern California's campus newspaper, published an article by the above title online.

This is a guide for those who are leading a cross-cultural Bible study with international students and what some helpful suggestions on how to lead the group effectively.

Here are websites of InterVarsity groups for international students on campuses in North America.

A book for Christians on cross-cultural marriage preparation "designed to help you describe yourself and to broaden your understanding about how individuals from differing backgrounds approach life.

Janet Payne has done a lot of work on workshops and materials on the topic, "Leadership Training for International Small Group Bible Discussions."

Here is an "Overview of International Student Ministry (ISM) in the USA," written by veteran IV staff worker, Paul Teoh. "I wrote it to be an introduction to ISM for people," he says. (This article is in Word 2000 format).

Here is an "Overview of International Student Ministry (ISM) in the USA," written by veteran IV staff worker, Paul Teoh. "I wrote it to be an introduction to ISM for people," he says. (This article is in PDF or "Acrobat" format).

A link to a website which enables you to watch segments of the "JESUS" film in many languages on line. It is a two hour presentation of Jesus life on earth set in 1st century Palestine.

This article on NATION BUILDING is a chapter in the forthcoming book entitled, "MISSIOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY," to be published in India by ISPCK, Delhi with Dr. Roger Hedlund and Paul Joshua as Editors.

John Perkins is an American Black Evangelical leader who has been a featured speaker at Inter Varsity camps and conferences (including a National Student Leadership Institute) and has served on Inter Varsity's Board of Directors.

The HOPE video, produced by Mars Hill Productions in the year 2002, is very multi-cultural. It supplements previous videos on the life of Christ with a broad Biblical perspective, including creation, the need for a sacrifice, etc

 
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