| Tips on Identifying ISM Contacts via ACMI |
If you are looking to connect to an ISM volunteer or staff in another location, in North America or abroad, here are three options. All can be accessed via this ACMI "Public" website. Click Here.
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| ACMI-LINK Directory of Caring Volunteers. |
| The following link will introduce you to ACMI-Link, designed to connect internationals (moving from one place to another worldwide) with Christians willing to welcome and help them: Click here |
| ISM Worker Directory |
Need to locate an ISM worker in another North American city?
Click Here.
(NOTE: Some in this Directory may be too busy to respond to email requests). |
| Staff Opportunities in ISM |
For a list of opportunities for service with a national or regional group ministering among internationals:
Press Here
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| ACMI Donations Fund |
| Click here to make tax-deductible contribution where currently most needed |
| ACMI Endowment Fund |
| Click Here to make a tax-deductible contribution. The Endowment Fund was begun at ACMI'07 when a special gift of $2,500 was given towards a Silver Anniversary Conference Endowment Fund. We are seeking to raise $25,000 for the Fund and to use the interest generated by the Fund towards needs of future annual ACMI conferences. |
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| ACMI | Association of Christians Ministering among Internationals |
The Association of Christians Ministering among Internationals (ACMI) is a bi-national (Canadian/USA) network of volunteers and staff with ministries among international students throughout North America.
ACMI was conceived at the first North American Consultation of International Student Ministries (ISM) in 1981. Since 1982 it has sponsored an annual, national conference for equipping and networking individuals (paid staff and volunteers) interested or involved in ISM from local churches, campus ministries, mission agencies, denominations, and other para-church ministries. This conference usually averages 50 workshops as part of the program.
ACMI membership provides several exclusive privileges and benefits, including the option to be on ACMI's email network, plus access to the members-only website (see log-in "Access for ACMI Members" box) which among other things contains the national directory of current and former members.
Browse through this public ACMI website to obtain current news, knowledge of approaching ISM-related events, and a variety of ISM "ministry resources."
Reg Pope
Interim Executive Director, ACMI
Privacy Statement for ACMI Web Site
See the following document: Click Here.
Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 06/11/2010 09:44 AM by acmi9cms
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| Near Future Events for ISM Workers |
September 17-28, 2010 - a tour and graduate course for credit Overture II Middle East - Armenia - Syria - Lebanon (OVII) is being offered by Bakke Graduate University and Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding (EMEU). This tour will include visits to Yerevan, Aleppo, Damascus and Beirut. For more info. on the tour see the EMEU website: Click here and Click here. Registration deadline is July 23, 2010. To register contact: Click here or phone 206-264-9100.
November 10, 2010 - "Evangelicals For Middle East Understanding" conference celebrating its 25th anniversary in Dallas, Texas. Leaders of Middle Eastern churches join leaders of "Western" churches. Following this celebration a few days later will be a "Global Faith Forum" with most of the same leaders. It's a great networking opportunity for Christian internationals and western church leaders of all kinds interested in Middle East churches. For more information and to register see: Click here, and Click here.
Click here for more events. |
| NAFSA's Christian "SIG" |
A Christian "Specific Interest Group" (SIG) of NAFSA: Association of International Educators will soon be establishing a new website. Look for the link to be announced here soon.
Originally the National Association of Foreign Student "Advisors," (later "Affairs"), many Christian International Student Advisors and other members of NAFSA used to gather together within their national conventions at the invitation of Dr. Jack Burke.
Jack also shared in the founding vision of ACMI back in 1981 and has written a paper to appear on this Christian SIG website in which he shares "Lessons Learned in Service to International Students."
ISMers have found NAFSA membership and participation in Regional or National conferences to be valuable for professional development, gaining broader perspectives of international student services, exposure to new resources, and beneficial networking and opportunities to build trust and reduce barriers with campus administration and staff. For information about NAFSA, see: www.NAFSA.org
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| Search for New ACMI Executive Director |
| A Search Committee has been formed by the ACMI Board to locate a new ACMI Executive Director. Job Description and compensation information are given here: Click here. |
| ACMI Conf. Plenary Speakers |
One of the good things about joining ACMI as a member (renewable annually each July) is access to the "PRIVATE" (members-only, password-protected) side of this ACMI website.
One relatively new feature of the PRIVATE side, for example, is the posting of some of the speakers by audio-streaming their sessions at one of the recent ACMI annual national conferences. For more details on this see:
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| Doug Shaw (ISI) on Internationals & Globalization |
| The Lausanne World Pulse online has published a new article by Doug Shaw of International Students Inc. (ISI): "The Gospel & International Studies: Can We Make the Connection?". Find it online at: Click here. |
| Want to join ACMI? |
| Click Here for membership information. |
| Access for ACMI Members |
| Click Here to enter ACMI members private site. If you are a member currently and forgot your password, contact us at Click here. |
| Near Future Events for Internationals |
November 10, 2010 - "Evangelicals For Middle East Understanding" conference celebrating its 25th anniversary in Dallas, Texas. Leaders of Middle Eastern churches join leaders of "Western" churches. Following this celebration a few days later will be a "Global Faith Forum" with most of the same leaders. It's a great networking opportunity for Christian internationals and western church leaders of all kinds interested in Middle East churches. For more information and to register see: Click here, and Click here.
Click here for more events...
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| Free Thanksgiving and Christmas booklets |
Janet Payne is offering online two free booklets related to Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations in the United States, which may be helopful in entertaining internationals in your home.
Janet also has a good deal of resource material on this website for using Biblical study to help internationals learn or improve their English as a second language. See: Click here. |
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