5. Mobilize others to contribute towards expanding the movement.
The campus, churches, and surrounding community provide critical resources and support for the movement.
We should be careful of thinking of the movement as an "island unto itself." The movement needs the surrounding campus and community just as the surrounding campus and community need the movement. Churches located near the campus are often willing and able to contribute a variety of resources to help reach internationals. Indeed, they often feel a strong sense of stewardship for the nearby campus and ministries associated with it.
The most obvious resources needed are money and manpower, but there are many other needs that churches or other community groups can help to meet. Not only will your ministry will be strengthened by such involvement, but so will those who contribute. They will grow in their vision and commitment to reaching the world for Christ as they get involved with the internationals in their hometown.
Questions to consider:
- Is there a growing team of staff, interns and volunteers who are filling various roles to reach internationals?
- Is there a strategy to recruit more workers?
- Are sufficient financial resources being developed to support the movement?
- Are involved students being connected to local churches?