· 40% of the world’s 200 heads of state once studied in the USA. International students are the brightest and most influential of virtually every country on earth.
· 60% of international students come from countries of the 10/40 Window. 25% come from countries where no missionary activity is allowed. These students are free from many spiritual and cultural strongholds while in the USA, improving receptivity to the Gospel.
· 60 countries have more than 1,000 students each in the USA. The following are large concentrations of students from countries representing unreached people blocks: 41,000 Chinese and 61,000 Japanese students representing Sino peoples; 44,000 Indian and Pakistani students representing Indo peoples; 30,000 Middle Eastern students representing Arab, Turkic, and Jewish peoples; and 25,000 Malaysian and Indonesian students representing Malay peoples.
· 70% of international students will never enter an American home, and even fewer will ever enter a Christian church.
· Repeatedly in the early Church, there were examples of the spread of the Gospel by God sovereignly moving people away from their homeland to the doorstep of believers (Pentecost, Ethiopian eunuch, Saul, Cornelius, etc.). He’s still doing this today.
Quotes
US
State Department estimates that 25% of all the world’s future political
leaders are studying in the US right now.
“Reaching
the Campus Today” by Evan Hunter
The
Ivy Jungle Report, Spring 2001
One-third
to one-half of the world’s top positions in politics, business, education,
and the military will be filled in the next 25 years by foreign students attending
colleges and universities in the United States.
The
World at Your Doorstep by Lawson Lau
The
next wave of world leaders is here. Go out and make a foreign friend.
Mark
Rentz, English professor, Arizona State University