Future pastors and missionaries… future gatekeepers for international ministry… that is the target as every semester Roy shares with Dallas Theological Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary students about international students and gives them the opportunity to volunteer to help out with the ministry.

This semester 50-60 American seminary students signed up to be friday night helpers, friendship partners, retreat volunteers and english partners. The result, students being touched and hopefully future pastors and missionaries who see the strategic nature of international student ministry who integrate this sort of ministry in their churches.

I ran into two guys at DTS this time around who volunteered three years ago and they are still in contact with a couple of Saudi students they befriended and still meet with them on a regular basis. One other DTS student is going to be our spring retreat speaker. A SWBTS student is going to meet with us to integrate our adopt a people strategy into Texas Southern Baptist Churches. God uses these short term “missionaries” in a big way.