page_title: International student ministry
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: International student ministry / History
caption_attribution_description: Participants at the Lausanne Global ISM Leadership Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. 11-16 September 2017. Used in w:International student ministry
context_page_description: International Student Ministry refers to evangelical Christian ministry among international students within an academic context, often carried out by protestant college religious organizations, volunteers and churches. It is considered part of the church’s mission, within the broader framework of diaspora missions.
  The first two decades of the 21st century have seen sharp growth in the number of international students globally with a corresponding development in ISM.
context_section_description: ISM traces its modern roots to John R. Mott who established The Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students in 1911, which was the first national ISM in the US.
  Since then, and particularly since the 1950s, there has been a growth of organizations doing this mainly in Western contexts.  As of 2016 there were at least 57 organizations engaged in ISM in 22 countries.
  In 2004, after a century of intermittent ISM growth Leiton Chinn convened a global gathering in Thailand of ISM leaders, and in 2007 he was appointed the Chair of the Lausanne ISM Issue Network. The two Lausanne Issue Groups of Diaspora and International Students then published Diasporas and International Students: The New People Next Door. Recent publications include those by Jack D. Burke and Enoch Wan. The Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment (section II-C-5) refers to reaching out to international students.
  In May 2014 the Lausanne ISM Global Leadership Network became a "docked network" with the World Evangelical  Alliance's Mission Commission.
  In September 2017 the Lausanne ISM Global Leadership Network hosted a global ISM forum Charlotte '17 which gathered 100 participants from 25 countries and 70 organizations.
  It is suggested that ISM is grounded in the Missio Dei and is motivated by biblical precedent and trends in migration. Chinn outlines ten reasons why ISM is strategic in relation to the Great Commission and nine reasons why it benefits local churches.
caption: Lausanne Global ISM Leadership Forum in Charlotte, NC, USA in September 2017.
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