What is an international church?

 

An international church is a “family”, “”home, and “place of refuge” primarily for expatriate Christians located (usually but not always) temporarily outside their country of citizenship (e.g. foreign workers, foreign students, diplomats, military personnel).

 

Some notable examples although there are so many more, are:

 

The Lighthouse Church (Kuwait, UAE)

http://www.tlckuwait.com/new/pastors.html

 

Dubai Evangelical Church Centre (Dubai, UAE)

http://www.deccc.com/main.asp

 

Bandung International Church (Bandung, Indonesia)

http://www.expat.or.id/orgs/bandungchurches.html

 

Hanoi International Fellowship (Hanoi, Vietnam)

http://hifvn.org/

 

South Asian International Fellowship Church (Singapore)

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Jubilee Church (Seoul, South Korea)

http://www.jubileeseoul.com/#/home

 

 

Lausanne Diasporas would like to see these international “homes” also become platforms for heralds of the Good News motivating, training, and mobilising the Church on the Move to take the Whole Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Whole World.

*Sadiri Joy Tira (D.Min., D.Miss.) is the LCWE Senior Associate for Diasporas.