To What Extent Can a Friends International Local Centre for International Students be a Holistic Diaconal Ministry?

Hovda, Ingvild
Master thesis
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2013-09-09
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Two questions that soon faced me, and that FI staff workers ask themselves, are:

a. In our ministry are we particularly good at hospitality and befriending, while

the other three parts of reaching out to IS, evangelism, discipleship and

support of returnees, play a secondary role?

b. Are we stressing evangelism to the extent that real discipleship is

not happening, and students do not retain their faith on return to

their home countries?

Both of these questions represented the matter of balance between the four core

aspects of Friends International’s ministry. This could, I believe, be expressed in the

term of holistic ministry. The question I therefore will try to answer in this study is:

To what extent can a Friends International local centre be a holistic diaconal

ministry?