This last weekend a new group of students from China, all executives in large companies, arrived to start their one year Executive MBA program at UTA. “Your Texas Friends,” a team of people from various churches and ministries in Arlington, were there to help them get settled into their new apartments and learn about living in America.

These students arrived on Thursday off of a bus and YTF’s team (ISI is a partner in this) was ready to welcome them. We had welcome laundry baskets full of food, flatware, pots, etc. that would tide them over till they were able to go shopping. Also we helped them to move their luggage into their apartments. Roy made a real impression by falling off a curb down a small hill onto his face while moving luggage. They will no doubt not forget him.

For six Saturdays, YTF is going to take the student shopping at Hong Kong Market and Walmart. As Arlington does not have mass-transit, this is a huge need for students. This last Saturday, Roy picked up three students and they wanted to go get a computer so he and another couple from Grace Community Church took them to Fry’s and the student was able to buy a nice laptop computer. We all got really close through this time and talked about all kinds of things. One of the students shared that he is really into Chinese lore and we talked about him sharing some of that with C-6 to help her to learn more about her heritage.