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Testimonies and principals of thriving in the inner city. Nathan Kwan, Marion Karasiuk, Steve Xu INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MINISTRY IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT

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CONTENTS Introduction A Map of Toronto Why Toronto? The Urban Christian by Bakke, Ray The 10 Principals Sharing from Three Pastors Resources and Appendix

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MAP OF TORONTO

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MAP OF TORONTO (2) AQP TAC TCBC

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WHY TORONTO? 300,000 Internationals (Migrants, students, transients) arrive in Toronto each year 50 % and more of the populations of the residence is born from a country other then Canada Pan Am Games is to be Hosted in July 2015 Canada is a Diaspora Nation In Canada, 1 in 5 are from another foreign country News Release Canada welcomes record number of international students in 2012 on Citizenship and Immigration Canada Canada to Double down on the amount of foreign students - GlobeandMail

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THE URBAN CHRISTIAN Bakke, Ray J. The Urban Christian

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PRINCIPALS TO THRIVE IN INNER CITY WORK 1.Nurture your inner life 2.Nurture your marriage 3.Partnerships 4.Tension, Balances and short-term to long-term thinking 5.Maintain Unity in Your Team 6.Learning to say no 7.Tenacity sticking in the long run 8.Be Flexible in a Dynamic Environment

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THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPALS 1.Know God 2.Spiritual Warfare

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STEVE XU Holding Tensions in Balance Learning to Say No

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ESL MINISTRY IN A CHINESE CHURCH(2012-) Field Trip to Saint Jacob Market in 2013 English Bible Study(A) in 2014 Toronto Chinese Baptist Church 1967- English Bible Study(B) in 2014 Sharing and Encouraging in 2014

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HOLDING TENSIONS IN BALANCE Biblical Example Pauls ministry (First to Jewish Ministry and then to Gentiles Ministry) Practical Ways I.Balancing short-term goals and long-term kingdom vision II.Balancing different ministries with your own focused one III.Balancing of the cultures in the existing ministry

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LEARNING TO SAY NO Biblical Example Jesus said no to people(John2:23-25) Practical Ways I.Pray for the Right Words to Respond to the Requests II.Priority of Multiple Tasks III.Preach the Gospel but Not Just Feed the Needs

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MARION KARASIUK Nurturing your Marriage Nurturing your inner life Protecting your team-mates

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Background Married, two children Retired engineer Husband a retired computer programmer Anglican, ordained as a deacon

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International Student Ministry A Quiet Place Outreach Centre Intersection of University of Toronto campus and Chinatown In a basement under the local Tim Hortons On Campus At Home Easy subway ride from campus Field Trips

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Ministry at A Quiet Place English Conversation and Cultural Exchange + dinner

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Ministry at A Quiet Place Special Events

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Ministry at A Quiet Place ESL Bible Study + dinner

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Ministry at A Quiet Place Sunday worship

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Ministry on Campus Volunteer teacher at campus centre for international students

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Ministry at Home Cooking classes Family dinners

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Ministry on Field Trips Apple Picking Ice Fishing Maple Syrup Cherry Blossoms

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Nurturing Your Marriage Priorities Realistic vs. Idealistic Seasons of Marriage Planning ahead Everyday Intimacy Planning the week Joint Ministry Boundaries Our Model Chaplain, Silent partner Communication Praying together Encouragement Small group

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Nurturing Your Inner Life Devotion is different from Study Silence is different from Playing worship music Sabbath is different from Cramming in some fun A Retreat is different from A Workshop

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Protecting Your Relationships with Team-Mates Pray together OK to have an informal leadership meeting too. Meet together have formal leadership meetings with minutes. Value diversity its how the body works Allow time for diversity patiently figure out the team God has given you. Take the same day off.

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NATHAN KWAN Partnerships Biblical and Theological Mandate for partnerships

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NATHAN KWAN Born in Ottawa Parents from Hong Kong Graduated from B.Eng in Computers Systems Moved to Toronto for Seminary M.Div from Tyndale in Intercultural studies Christian and Missionary Alliance Started International Student Ministries as a volunteer at Peoples Church and ISM, by See Kiat Toh and founder Joseph Sabounji

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TORONTO ALLIANCE CHURCH AND FAITH IN FOCUS Approaching the problem from a church-plant named Faith in Focus

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SMALL BEGINNINGS AND EXPERIMENTING Hanging out at Coffee Shops and at a Private English School Started volunteering at the International Experience (Foreign Student Office) in their English Conversation Program at University of Toronto Worked with OneMissions RedFrogs

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MEET UP Tried English Conversation Caf from our friend Combine it with social media Went to SOCEM Conference Married Faith in Focus by having the conversation caf right before

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MEET UP

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PARTNERSHIP AND TENACITY Sticking to it Tenacity Partnerships Theological Reasons Lausanne Covenant in Capetown Koinonia - That means partnership or fellowship Historical Reasons Both parties have a mutual benefit

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WHAT DOES PARTNERSHIP LOOK LIKE? Two models of Partnerships 1.Looking At Each Other Prayer, sharing, unity and meetings i.e. Ministeriums, associations, joint prayer groups 2.Looking At One Direction Reduce inefficiencies What we can do together that we cant do apart I.e. Billy Graham crusades, Red Frogs, prayer movements, volunteering at community meals We must do these activities. We cant be too busy. We are Better Together

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EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIPS Meeting regularly for prayer and sharing Offering workshops for re-tooling that are beneficial for all parties Asking the other person to step into each other ministry or work together Going to the others ministry to take a look, assist and make friendships with international students Going out to dinner with each others students together Going out to each others events or activities i.e. Christmas performances, Cherry Blossoms, Maple Syrup Bush, Icefishing, and Niagara Falls

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CONCLUSION God wants us to not just survive but to thrive Remember the principals and the underlying principals

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Partnership Resources Prayer in a City Tim Keller talk in Lausanne Capetown on Why Urban Cities Matter Missions Kairos Course Missio Nexus - Diaspora Research www.globalmissiology.org/ Diaspora Research www Working in Multicultural teams Perceptions of working relationships among multicultural members in international mission agencies: a languacultural analysis by Dr. Jonathan Kim http://gradworks.umi.com/36/12/3612879.html ESL Resources SOCEM Southern Ontario Co-op ESL Ministries Spiritual Renewal Life Together by Dietriech Bonhoeffer CS Lewis Pilgrims Progress James Houston, Prayer

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APPENDIX Unity Verses: Ps 133, Heb 13, Eph 4:3, John 17, Ph 2:14, 4:8, Titus 3:9-11, Matt 18:15-17, 5:19 Why Partnerships? Gods apologetics is unity Partnership makes sense when you try to accomplish something you cannot do on your own The three Cs of partnership connection, collaboration and communication

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APPENDIX LAUSANNE COVENANT ON UNITY 6. THE CHURCH AND EVANGELISM We affirm that Christ sends his redeemed people into the world as the Father sent him, and that this calls for a similar deep and costly penetration of the world. We need to break out of our ecclesiastical ghettos and permeate non-Christian society. In the Church's mission of sacrificial service evangelism is primary. World evangelization requires the whole Church to take the whole gospel to the whole world. The Church is at the very centre of God's cosmic purpose and is his appointed means of spreading the gospel. But a church which preaches the cross must itself be marked by the cross. It becomes a stumbling block to evangelism when it betrays the gospel or lacks a living faith in God, a genuine love for people, or scrupulous honesty in all things including promotion and finance. The church is the community of God's people rather than an institution, and must not be identified with any particular culture, social or political system, or human ideology. (John 17:18; 20:21; Matt. 28:19,20; Acts 1:8; 20:27; Eph. 1:9,10; 3:9-11; Gal. 6:14,17; II Cor. 6:3,4; II Tim. 2:19-21; Phil. 1:27) 7. COOPERATION IN EVANGELISM We affirm that the Church's visible unity in truth is God's purpose. Evangelism also summons us to unity, because our oneness strengthens our witness, just as our disunity undermines our gospel of reconciliation. We recognize, however, that organisational unity may take many forms and does not necessarily forward evangelism. Yet we who share the same biblical faith should be closely united in fellowship, work and witness. We confess that our testimony has sometimes been marred by a sinful individualism and needless duplication. We pledge ourselves to seek a deeper unity in truth, worship, holiness and mission. We urge the development of regional and functional cooperation for the furtherance of the Church's mission, for strategic planning, for mutual encouragement, and for the sharing of resources and experience. (John 17:21,23; Eph. 4:3,4; John 13:35; Phil. 1:27; John 17:11-23) 8. CHURCHES IN EVANGELISTIC PARTNERSHIP We rejoice that a new missionary era has dawned. The dominant role of western missions is fast disappearing. God is raising up from the younger churches a great new resource for world evangelization, and is thus demonstrating that the responsibility to evangelise belongs to the whole body of Christ. All churches should therefore be asking God and themselves what they should be doing both to reach their own area and to send missionaries to other parts of the world. A reevaluation of our missionary responsibility and role should be continuous. Thus a growing partnership of churches will develop and the universal character of Christ's Church will be more clearly exhibited. We also thank God for agencies which labor in Bible translation, theological education, the mass media, Christian literature, evangelism, missions, church renewal and other specialist fields. They too should engage in constant self-examination to evaluate their effectiveness as part of the Church's mission. (Rom. 1:8; Phil. 1:5; 4:15; Acts 13:1-3, I Thess. 1:6-8) 9. THE URGENCY OF THE EVANGELISTIC TASK More than 2,700 million people, which is more than two-thirds of all humanity, have yet to be evangelised. We are ashamed that so many have been neglected; it is a standing rebuke to us and to the whole Church.

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APPENDIX USING MEET UP Meet Up is a social media tool that many international students use to find social events in the city. (www.meetup.com) Meet-up connects events and people together. People search for the events they want to visit and they are connected with the events in their geographic area. It also notifies them of events that they are interested. Internationals use the Internet because it contains a wealth of information in their language and in English and they use it to keep in contact with their home. They can easily translate English web-sites into their own native language using google translate. The church members speak English because of their roots. They are most ideal to be the teachers and the bridge builders into the international community and the rest of the culture. The church plays a unique role in sharing the truth, not only in the language but also the truth in scripture. This is thinking outside the box

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APPENDIX TORONTO FACTS AND STATS MINT numbers in Canada/ GTA According to this website - http://www.international.gc.ca/experience/intro_incoming- intro_entrant.aspx?view=d - about 50,000 people from 32 countries come into Canada annually for working holiday visas. Most of these end up in the GTA.http://www.international.gc.ca/experience/intro_incoming- intro_entrant.aspx?view=d According to this chart from StatCan, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum- som/l01/cst01/demo33b-eng.htm, Ontario had 101,000 new immigrants in Jul 2011- Jun 2012 (118,000 in 2010). Of these, 92,000 landed in Toronto - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/permanent/11.asphttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum- som/l01/cst01/demo33b-eng.htm http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/permanent/11.asp According to this website, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010-summary/06.asp, in 2010 Toronto had 50,000 of the 85,000 foreign students that came to Ontario.http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010-summary/06.asp According to this, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/28.asp, Toronto had 36,000 of the 58,000 refugees in Ontario.http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/28.asp According to this, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/07.asp#countries there were 182,000 foreign workers in Canada in 2010. 30,000 of them were in Toronto, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/09.asphttp://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/07.asp#countries http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/09.asp See this overall chart 661,000 MINT peoples in Canada in 2010 - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/02.asp#december http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2010/temporary/02.asp#december At least 300,000 MINT peoples in Toronto each year!!!

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APPENDIX - TERMS UoT University of Toronto TCBC Toronto Chinese Baptist Church TAC Toronto Alliance Church AQP A Quiet Place A church-plant of ANIC ANIC Anglican Network in Canada C&MA Christian and Missionary Alliance

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APPENDIX (WEB-SITES AND LINKS) UoT Mowat Report by Public Policy Institute - http://mowatcentre.ca/diaspora-nationhttp://mowatcentre.ca/diaspora-nation ThisToronto and OneMission on Facebook SOCEM ESLministries.orgESLministries.org www.meetup.com/english-conversation-cafe - promotion via social media www.meetup.com/english-conversation-cafe www. Faithinfocus.ca - Toronto Alliance Church church plant www.tcbc.on.ca/en/node - Toronto Chinese Baptist Church www.tcbc.on.ca/en/node christtheredeemer.ca Christ the Redeemer (A Quiet Place) christtheredeemer.ca Torontos History See Toronto the Good articles etc.