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Community/Valentines, The Great American Speedway, God is Touching Hearts

Roy / February 19, 2014

The last few week featured a slew of activities, highlighted by the North Texas ISI Staff retreat and the UTA ISI Starbucks Group Valentines Dinner. The Valentines dinner (see pictures) was a dinner hosted by the guys for the gals. They went all out and cooked a three course dinner with several menu items, served them …

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Welcoming new students

Roy / January 14, 2014

What a week of welcoming students! Picked up students from Mexico, Spain, Japan and India from the airport. Also helped arrange housing for a few, went shopping with a couple more, and helped with getting students to and from Walmart. It was busy. It was hard not having a bad attitude, being out almost every night. …

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Christmas and New Years – Flights

Roy / January 7, 2014

Steve and Maho came our house for Christmas dinner. They were able to experience the whole movie, “The Nativity” with our family. We all had bent and flexed because Steve’s “kind-of” vegetarianism. Typically we have had ham, roast beef or turkey in the past. This year we had a very good vegetarian chili that Lisa …

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Merry Christmas from the Yabukis

Roy / December 25, 2013

Dear [fname], We would like to wish you all a “Merry Christmas!” from our family to yours. We pray that God gives you a blessed time with family and friends during this special time of the year. You all mean so much to us. We also pray that God will give you a blessed new year …

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Surprise at the Christmas Party

Roy / December 19, 2013

Last Friday we had the last Friday Night Fellowship of the calendar year. Because of bad weather the week before it also functioned as the Christmas party at Daniel & Jamie Lin’s house. (see pictures) We were worried that not many students would come because it was after finals and often students leave immediately after classes …

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Thanksgiving Celebrations and Winter Cabin Fever

Roy / December 12, 2013

With Thanksgiving (see all our Thanksgiving related pictures), the last couple of weeks saw periods of intense time with students. It also saw some times when we were shut down because of weather. It seemed to be reflection of what this year has been like. I don’t think we have every cancelled as many events …

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Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Roy / November 28, 2013

“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.” – William Jennings Bryan The older I get, the more I learn how little control we have over our lives. God provides all things and knows the best way for us to live. I don’t just mean following the rules in the Bible. I mean that He intimately wants …

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Thanks for a terrific week – College Visits – I can’t be that old

Roy / November 23, 2013

A week of travel, a week of crossroads… or at least plans in preparation for crossroads. This last week saw Jonathan and I take a trip down I-35 to visit universities that he might go to: Baylor, the University of Texas and Texas State were added to UT Arlington as schools he has seen and …

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M:28 Bible study with friends, Friday Night Kids

Roy / November 12, 2013

It is so refreshing spending time with friends who really want to learn about the God and Jesus that I love and cherish through the Bible. On Friday before our Friday Fellowship I had the privilege of meeting with a Armando (Mexico), Wing(Taiwan) & Stu (India) to study the Bible together in an M:28 Bible …

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Fall Fest, Kayaks, Hiking & a Day trip to the State Park,

Roy / November 1, 2013

See pictures from October including pictures from Fun Fest This has been a busy week in terms of making new friends. Well, we ended up not camping this week but instead we went on a day trip to Cleburne State Park (see pictures). It was a fun time where we made some new friends and got …

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