90% of all international students never step a foot inside of an American’s home while they are in the States…
Recently, I’ve had some refreshing renewal of heart for international students. Â For last few weeks, Corey and I hosted a Campus Crusade for Christ staff from Taiwan. Â YuPing came to know the Lord while in college through Campus Crusade for Christ and came on staff after working in her field for a while.
She has been on staff for several years now and was sent by her staff team in Taiwan to St. Louis in order to observe and learn how our St. Louis team ministers to students at multiple campuses. Â Even with limited staff, the Taiwanese Campus Crusade movements want to reach more campuses, and YuPing said that St. Louis was a good model to follow.
One thing that is very different is that we in the States have been blessed with many leaders, volunteers, and church partnerships whereas in Taiwan, Christian leaders, faculty, volunterers, etc. are almost non-existent. Â Taiwan is only 3% Christian.
Yet, YuPing said that many of the Christians that she knows who are out of college came to know Christ while studying abroad in the US!!! They accept Christ while in the States and become Christian leaders back home.
Will you pray and think about how the Lord may use you to reach the international students??
Last night I got back late from MS&T (Rolla, MO). Â My friend Jeff and I had such a great day!!
Jeff Austin is a friend of mine, on staff with Engineering Ministries International (eMi, Â http://www.emiusa.org), and he was speaking to the American Society of Civil Engineers about his ministry in Africa.
Afterwards, our Cru students were able to sit down with him to ask questions and talk about what would it would look like to be doing ministry as an engineer.
The students just LOVED him. As many of our students are not going into full-time vocational ministry, they were excited to hear about how they can use their engineering degrees for Christ. Â We want all of our students to know that they are sent ones from the Lord and that no matter what their vocations may be, they are to be Christ-centered laborers for rest of their lives.
Thank you so much for your continual prayers,
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin rwho knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   —  2 Corithians 5:20-21
