Source: Emmaus Road International
Internationals Who Live among Us: Doing World Missions at Home, by Neal Pirolo. Emmaus Road International, 2013. 224 pages.
Neal Pirolo, author of Serving as Senders Today, The Reentry Team, and several other works has published a new book dealing specifically with welcoming (and ministering to) internationals. Pirolo divides them into seven distinct groups: international students, undocumented aliens, visitors, business people, refugees, established ethnic communities, and (perhaps surprisingly) returned missionary kids. Each group gets its own chapter in this book.
While much might be said about needs and opportunities within each of these populations, Internationals Who Live among Us provides a good introduction and may help readers with compassion for one group to discover some of the others. Interviews, anecdotes, and observations invite the reader to identify with internationals and consider how they and their churches might better understand and engage with these groups.
The book is directed solely to an American Evangelical Christian audience and written with some eccentricities of style which might put off some readers. It is, though, full of little gems – resources, insights, and practical ideas for becoming personally involved in global outreach without leaving your town.
» Learn more or purchase this book from ERI for US$10.95. It does not seem to be available from other online sources like Amazon. A more extensive review is posted at Worldview Church.