The Association of Christians Ministering among Internationals (ACMI) is a bi-national (Canadian/USA) network of volunteers and staff with ministries among international students throughout North America.

ACMI was conceived at the first North American Consultation of International Student Ministries (ISM) in 1981. Since 1982 it has sponsored an annual, national conference for equipping and networking individuals (paid staff and volunteers) interested or involved in ISM from local churches, campus ministries, mission agencies, denominations, and other para-church ministries. This conference usually averages 50 workshops as part of the program.

ACMI membership provides several exclusive privileges and benefits, including the option to be on ACMI's email network, plus access to the members-only website (see log-in "Access for ACMI Members" box) which among other things contains the national directory of current and former members.

Browse through this public ACMI website to obtain current news, knowledge of approaching ISM-related events, and a variety of ISM "ministry resources."

Carmen Bryant
Interim Executive Director, ACMI

ACMI-Link Developed and Maintained by Barry Chole, ACMI Staff

Barry Chole (pictured at right) works part-time as the ACMI staff overseeing and developing contacts for ACMI-Link worldwide. ACMI-Link (upper left menu) serves the ISM community both in North America and in dozens of countries around the world, establishing contacts for international students traveling between countries and universities.

Leiton Chinn Reports on Capetown2010

ACMI Network:

Thank you for praying for the Lausanne III: Capetown2010 congress and our 4 ISM Dialogue Sessions (workshops).

I told our presenters before the first session that our numbers may be very small, since there would be 40 simultaneous sessions with so many excellent topics. One session alone, on the current developments of Anglicanism worldwide, had an auditorium seating 1,500 (out of the 4,000 delegates).

I would have been pleased with 10-15, and was pleasantly surprised that our first session on ISM in Europe had about 30 participants, and our other 3 sessions on ISM in Asia-Pacific; North America; and Africa averaged about 20. There were several good connections that resulted and I'm hopeful that continuing fruit of networking and collaboration will be forthcoming in all 4 regions of the world that were featured.

The following is a link to a photo of Lisa and me with some of the ISM presenters from India, Japan, South Africa, Canada, UK, and New Zealand...

Besides the ISM sessions, I also made numerous new contacts and renewed and strengthened relationships made from other networking events that could further advance the ISM movement globally and for North America. About 200 ACMI-Link info-sheets were distributed.

Now praying about next-steps for ISM development and possible regional ISM consultations in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa in the next couple of years (North America will be having its 30th bi-national annual ISM event at ACMI2011).

Serving Int'l Students with you,

Leiton Chinn
Past-President, Current Director for Global Networking, ACMI

ACMI Website Developed and Maintained by Ned Hale, ACMI Staff

Ned Hale (pictured at left) works part-time as the ACMI Staff overseeing the ACMI website. Currently based in Madison, Wisconsin, Ned is one of the founding fathers of ACMI (which began with consultations of ISM leaders in 1981) and was a member of the original ACMI Board. In 2010 he was recognized by the current ACMI Board at the annual ACMI 2010 Conference in Manhattan, Kansas, where he was given the Leiton Chinn award for excellence in ISM leadership.