Internationals
By God’s grace, Washington, DC attracts many students from around the world to study here. The Lord has literally brought the nations to our doorstep! Our aim through the International Student Ministry (ISM) is to reach out to these students and to share with them the good news of Jesus Christ. Our ultimate hope and prayer is that that by ministering to international students, the Gospel would advance throughout the world.
ISM offers international students a number of activities aimed at building such evangelistic relationships:
- We offer once-a-week English and Bible study classes from 7:00-8:30PM at the George Washington University campus (Tuesdays) and at the Georgetown University campus (Thursday), running ten weeks in the Spring semester and ten weeks in the Fall semester. This forms the backbone of the ministry where we often meet students for the first time, teach them English, share the Gospel with them, and introduce them to the other activities we offer.
- We offer one-on-one language partners, a type of friendship in which an international student meets with a member of the church on a semi-regular basis to learn English and to study the Gospel in greater depth.
- We offer once-a-month social events on Saturdays, during which members of the church and international students get together to do something fun, such as taking tours of the Capitol, visits to museums, hikes in the park, and meals over the holidays.
- We offer once-a-month Sunday lunches, where we share a meal with students after the Sunday morning service at CHBC.
- Finally, members of the church involved with ISM gather once a month to pray for the students by name and for God to prosper the ministry.
For more information about our ministry to international students, please email Hanh Tran.