Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
More relationship building the last two week. Space Weekend was a complete hit. (See pictures) So was a separate trip to see a to see a Dallas Mavericks basketball game via train (40 people – see pictures). It has been fun to watch as we worked to develop community through the different events. Many of the same people …
Big prayer need coming along. We are taking 80+ students and volunteers to Houston this weekend, October 6-7 to visit the Space center, hear from a believing NASA official, stay with host families, go to church (sometimes for the first time), enjoy the Galveston Bay and most of all, enjoy being together for an intense …
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One of the special things I really enjoy about doing ISI ministry is that is it incredibly fun. Every once in a while, when I get so bogged down in the daily struggles and other things, God reminds me of that. This week was one of those times. It was a great week on so …
On Saturday, September 15, we (Roy, Jonathan & Charis) are off to Stephenville, TX with around 120 people including 50+ UTA students and 3 TCU students and students from UT Austin(20), DTS, SMU, Collin College, and Richland College. The students will be exposed to life on a ranch including camping in tents, eating out, skeet …
The last five days were a whirlwind. Lots of communication, preparation and blessing: a one day trip to Oklahoma City, meetings about our M:28 video, welcoming 20 new East Asian EMBA scholars,a wall to wall packed Yabuki house on Friday ISI night, concerted prayer and lots and lots of e-mails about many things from getting …
What a welcome month at UTA! God used us(we but more the 200+ volunteers) to made over 100 airport pickups. He brought us over 400 students to the Big Howdy Party(plus nearly 200 volunteers from 30+ groups). He served many through us at the Used Item Sale. He used us to take over 100 students …
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The Big Howdy has begun! Last week was very busy as all the area campuses were welcoming new students. Between airport pickups, orientation, used item distribution/sales, rides to Walmart, etc. our whole North Texas team has been meeting new students daily. God has been very faithful as we seek people of peace as we serve …
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One of the special privileges in being a part of ISI is the opportunity to encourage, empower and train the Body of Christ to love international students and to help the students grow into disciples who make disciples. We are in the middle of a three week period where our ISI North Texas team is …
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In many ways this was a week of spending time with family. Our eldest son, Jonathan celebrated his 16th birthday. I went on canoe/kayak outing with my second son, Timothy’s scout troop. Lisa had the week off and she, her mother, Penny joining our family all the way from Oregon and Charis went all over …
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The ISI North Texas team went up to Possum Kingdom Lake for a retreat. It was a wonderful retreat. One of my goals for the time was to work to begin the process of restoring some of the “organizational heath” that was eroded over the last couple of years because of our intense work on …
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