The World at Your Doorstep: A Handbook for International Student Ministry

By Lawson Lau

Book Overview

The World at Your Doorstep: A Handbook for International Student Ministry This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877845263
• ISBN13: 9780877845263
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: IVP Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Perspective, but strays from the topic

This is an excellent account by a person, then an international student studying in the US, about how Christians can minister to international students. Its great strength is a lengthy discussion of the experience of culture shock, and more generally of the difficulties faced by a student setting foot in a foreign land to start school. The author draws primarily on a combination of his own experiences and on those of a family in Kansas who have carried on an effective ministry of helping such students, but other data is included.The one major weakness of the book is that it periodically is diverted onto irrelevant abstraction, which the setting of the book is too brief and too low-level to adequately treat. For instance, the author attempts to treat in about a page and a half the application of situation ethics to Christian life.On the whole, the book is good for its concrete description, and well worth the time of a person interested in making contact with international students.