Relationships

Jesus spends a lot of time at dinner tables. He stops to spend time with Mary and Martha, invites himself over to stay with a despised tax collector named Zacchaeus, and he even goes to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee. Along the way, he has a series of facinating conversations that matter.

Our time here is not our own. We do not always have a tomorrow. We do not always have a “when we feel like it.”

One of the easiest ways to take part in cross-cultural missions is through interacting with the more than a million international students and scholars who have come to study on nearly every campus across the United States this fall. Here’s what you need to know to start ministry among internationals.

Last week, while waiting for a plane, I accidentally overheard the phone conversation of a Muslim man sitting behind me. He was telling the person on the other end of the line how happy and excited he was that Ramadan was around the corner, starting today.