Pray, Serve, Give! (June 2021)

PRAY

• Join the Campus Prayer Walk in June: Campus Prayer Walk
• Pray for students to get their visas and airline flights to study in the US this August
• Pray international students who are supposed to come or who are here will remain healthy
• Pray for more vaccines to be distributed in the US and other countries
• Pray for leaders for the International Wives Group
• Pray for wisdom for IFI staff as they plan welcome events

SERVE

• Serve at the IFI Global Block Party and Picnic on June 12th from 11am-2pm at University Village!
• Meet weekly online with an international as a Virtual Conversation Partner
• Pick a student up from the airport and house them temporarily
• Save the date! Host International Students for Red, White & Barbecue a Fourth of July picnic or BBQ, on 7/2, 7/3, or 7/4
• IFI Reverse Missions Trip: recruit a team of 4-8 others from your church that will do a short term missions trip with IFI for 10-14 days in August. Contact Leila at: l.gardner@ifipartners.org for more info

GIVE

• Donate to IFI Columbus Designated Projects. Set up a monthly (or one-time) donation to help grow our ministry impact!
• Do your shopping and give to IFI at the same time through Amazon Smile and Kroger Community Rewards programs!

Summer activity ideas to do with your international friend in Columbus

• Have a picnic or take a walk in a Columbus park  www.columbus.gov/recreationandparks/Park-Listing/
• Hike Metro parks: www.metroparks.net/
• Invite for smores in your backyard
• Local fireworks
• Visit the Ohio History Center and village open July 7th: www.ohiohistory.org/visit/ohio-history-center 
• The Franklin Country Fair- July 19-25: www.fcfair.org/
• Go to the Art Museum: www.columbusmuseum.org/  (It is free on Sundays!)
• The Zoo and Zoombezi Bay: www.columbuszoo.org/
• COSI: www.cosi.org/
• Visit historic Ohio sites: www.ohiohistory.org/visit

Check out the Every International presentation – Ministry in the Summer

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MnSP9g1OtegarFT4Y8WomugoVUzUTSOZ1KwRFvmgxls/edit?usp=sharing