International Student Ministry , Lansing Area serves the 2,450 international students and their dependents at Michigan State University. It operates an International Student Minsistry Friendship House at 929 Sever Drive, East Lansing, MI 48823. Marcia Mittwede serves as the Director for the ministry. Aound 50 are enrolled in these classes. One has 12 Japanese women only one of whom is a believer.
Students come primarily from China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.
However there are also students from Venezuela, Bulgaria and Trinidad enrolled. There are a total of 14 teachers helping to teach the classes. The teachers are volunteers from six different Lutheran churches in the area. Here is a woman who comes from a land of deep spiritual darkness, where people are taught there is no God. For several months this type of service had been discussed and prayed about by Marcia Mittwede and Pastor David Dressel, the pastoral advisor.