Would you like your congregation to…

• Increase in their excitement for missions?
• "DO" missions rather than just pay for others to do it?
• Reach into nations closed to the Gospel?
• Experience the joy and challenge of cross-cultural evangelism without leaving home?
• See new believers come into your church from many different nations?

If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then consider…
A ministry to the mission field God is bringing to you, the international students at your local college or university. This is one of the most strategic mission efforts your church could have. Why?

• There are over 662,000 international students in the US , representing nearly every country in the world.
• Many of these countries are closed to Christian missionaries.
• These students will return home to be tomorrow's leaders.

Who is best equipped to reach this strategic mission field?
Your church!

How do you start?
Become an ISI Affiliate. Affiliates are churches or organizations that have entered into a mutually beneficial and formalized relationship with ISI so both reap the great benefits of genuine partnership. ISI wants to share its international student ministry experience to provide you with the resources you need to succeed. As an Affiliate you will receive…

Discounts on materials
As an ISI Affiliate, you enjoy generous discounts on materials:

• The Jesus film—available in many languages
• Country and religion profiles
• Training materials
• Bible studies for internationals
• Bibles and New Testaments, specifically designed for internationals
• Various other resources

Prayer Network
ISI Affiliates and Associates are added to our Intercessor Network as well as our monthly staff prayer list. Our staff and intercessors will pray for any prayer requests/concerns you submit. To assist you in praying for ISI, you will receive regular prayer updates via email.  

Toll-Free Phone Consultation
A private ISI Affiliate toll-free telephone service allows you instant access to ISI's international student ministry specialists. Simply dial 1 (800) ISI-LINE.

United States Transfer Network
International students often move from one city to another. Because of the breadth of our ministry contacts, we can help your student find a Christian niche in a new location where he or she can find opportunities for fellowship and growth.

Global Follow-up Network
ISI's Global Follow-up Network will help you connect your international students with other vibrant Christians and returnees when they return home.

Conferences and Training
To provide continued training, representatives from your church or organization will receive a special invitation to attend ISI's regularly scheduled National and Regional conferences at a discounted rate. At these conference you will interact with ISI team members from across the country as well as meet other international student ministry leaders. ISI also has staff and materials prepared to train your team for effective ministry.

Speaker's Bureau
ISI experts are available to assist your church or organization in developing international student ministry. They can cover an array of subjects including church ministry, world religions, casting the vision, revival, and much more.

On-site Training
ISI can have expert consultants make on-site visits for Friendship Partner, Church Team, and evangelism training; strategic planning; and the evaluation of new and existing ministries.

For the Speaker's Bureau and on-site training, the sponsoring churches or individuals will provide an honorarium to cover the ISI staff's ministry, as well as travel expenses, housing and meals for the ISI representative. Often, several churches in a city will co-sponsor such events.

On-line Internet Services
Log on to this website any time to learn about additional ministry opportunities, ISI local staff website links, training, resources, and much more. Our student site at www.internationalstudents.org contains valuable information for international students who have come to the US .

Your Partnership with ISI

ISI asks just a few simple things of our Affiliate partners:

• Share a philosophy of friendship evangelism in reaching international students. We affirm that the Gospel is for all people without partiality. Therefore, we should seek to reach all nations through reaching every international student. Evangelism is our grateful response to God for His love to us, compelling us to share passionately yet respectfully, not coercively or deceptively, this Good News with others.
• Read and agree with our mission and vision statements and statement of faith.
• Let us get to know you. Please send us copies of your mission statement, core values, and your bulletin.
• Appoint a Church Team Leader.
• As you get to know us and as we partner in missions together, consider putting ISI's national or local ministry in your budget.
• Provide your Friendship Partners access to all the Affiliate benefits by sending their names to ISI, Attn: Volunteer & Recruitment Services.

If you are interested in joining ISI through an Affiliate and Associate Partnership, please click here . You will find a response form that we need you to either submit online or print, fill out and mail to us. There is a one-time $50 membership/processing fee. In return, you will receive access to all the benefits of the network, and a welcome gift including resources to assist you in your ministry to international students.

For a general idea about how an international student ministry gets started in a church, please review ISI's Pathway for Church Involvement . It provides the basic steps taken to develop such a ministry.