International Project fulfills the Great Commission by engaging with immigrants in New York City.
The organization will participate in the tabling event at Liberty on Sept. 28 for Global Focus Week.
International Project offers several programs including a 10-month training called Equip that focuses on developing skills for cross-cultural ministry.
According to Kevin King, president and co-founder of International Project, those in Equip learn these skills through oral storytelling, where they practice sharing biblical stories in a way that will connect to specific groups of people.
The Equip program also uses King’s book, “Living Out Loud” to help those nervous about evangelism. The book and training help people become more comfortable with evangelism and engaging with others spiritually.
“It’s a muscle that you grow, and it’s a comfortability that you grow … (the trainees) become more and more comfortable and natural, and they leave with a whole different perspective about evangelism and sharing the gospel and engaging people spiritually,” King said.
International Project evangelizes by equipping those in unreached people groups (populations with less than 2% of their constituents actively following Jesus) to plant biblically simple churches that can spread to other parts of the world, through immigrants. In these areas, there are no self-sustaining churches able to reach people with the gospel.
“We believe that God is divinely orchestrating migration,” King said. “He is causing people to move around the globe, and by doing that, he’s opening up access to people that have been really difficult to reach.”
This approach is changing lives and spreading the gospel.
“We’re seeing people come to faith, get baptized and share the gospel with their friends and family,” King said. “And that is the most exciting thing in the world, to see people who’ve had no hope come to know Christ and be so excited to share with their family and then see their family changed.”
An important part of International Project is their two-month internship program in Europe where college students are trained in evangelism and discipleship.
“When they start making disciples themselves, that’s the super exciting thing,” King said. “And that’s the whole reason that we do everything we do, is just to see the nations, people from these nations, come to know Christ and then become disciple makers.”
King said he frequently meets people who know they want to make disciples, but they are not taught how to do it. The program models what intentional discipleship looks like.
“We’re very strong in really discipling people to have intimacy with Christ and teaching them how to make disciples and share the gospel in a way that’s comfortable and natural,” King said.
Interns also have the opportunity to use their gifts outside of evangelism. International Project involves its interns in operations teams, the finance department, tech and business.
Twitchell is a feature editor for The Liberty Champion.