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Mission made Rev Aart van der Maarl available to IFES as a staff member from 1997 to 2008. He was considered a missionary with a domestic mission. In his hometown of Eindhoven and the surrounding area, he made many contacts with Chinese students.
After Rev Van der Maarl became church pastor in Eindhoven in 2008, mission and IFES remained linked. In 2010, the General Synod even explicitly mandated continued support for the work among foreign students.
