Multicultural Ministries
Contact Dana Baker for more information.
- English for Speakers of Other languages
See entry under Local Outreach
- Gregg Detwiler (Emmanuel Gospel Center)
- Coalition for International Students
- Grace Chapel International Student Gatherings
See entry under Local Outreach
- David Miller (International Students, Inc.)
“The foreigner who sojourns among you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Leviticus 9:33
Gregg Detwiler (Emmanuel Gospel Center)
978.988.8857 or gdetwiler@comcast.net
Gregg Detwiler is on the staff of Emmanuel Gospel Center as multicultural ministries coordinator. He is a missionary to and with immigrants, refugees, and internationals in Greater Boston. He relates to many different ethnic groups including Africans, Brazilians, Cambodians, and Indians. His work involves leadership development, building the capacity of indigenous Christian movements, and equipping the American church to know how to work with Diaspora Christian movements.
International Student Ministry
Coalition for International Students (CIS)
Bill Coolbaugh, Chairman, 508.788.0412 or bcoolbaugh@aol.com
The CIS is a coalition of Christian campus ministries and churches that work with university students in the greater Boston area. To effectively coordinate their activities and cooperate in such a way as to maximize their effectiveness in reaching out to the international student community, the members formed CIS in 2002. Founding members are International Students Inc., InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Campus Crusade for Christ, Chi Alpha, The Greater Boston Baptist Association, Grace Chapel in Lexington, and Park Street Church in Boston. The mission of CIS is to collectively serve international students, scholars, and their families by providing valuable services and activities. CIS works to complement the international student offices at local colleges and universities throughout the Boston area, and to catalyze and facilitate the ministry of area churches to international students. The services offered consist primarily of friendship partners, holiday host families, seminars on select topics to help gain understanding of the U.S, tourism, conversational and academic ESL classes, rides to and from the airport, and a place to call when help is needed. Religious activities such as Bible studies and church participation are also offered for those interested. CIS helps internationals of all religions.
Visit www.studentfriend.org; 781.219.3607 or mars-hill@comcast.net
David Miller(International Students, Inc.)
781.219.3607 or mars-hill@comcast.net
David has set up an international student ministry house in Medford. He and his family live there with several students, and the house is for weekly meetings of other students, as well. Near I-93 and ten minutes from the Red Line, the house is a good place for Christian volunteers from the suburbs to meet international students.
