Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
(Pictures and videos) “What about Karaoke?” long time student leader Miguel shared almost as a joke at our most recent UTA ministry planning meeting. I had just heard that our TCU team members, the Moores, just bought a Karaoke machine. We put two and two together and it became a reality this last Friday as …
What a week last week was! In one week I learned new ideas on ministering to Hindu’s, heard from a Nobel Peace Prize winner, met international students advisors from around the world, shared about the importance of getting involved with Web 2.0 for ministry to international students, communed with international student ministers from all over …
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We recently got a message from UNT about a former student. She is from Taiwan and she was a part of some in-depth Bible studies, helped to lead at both our spring break retreat and with the local team. This student got to know Lisa when we sent her to Urbana with a student scholarship …
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 …
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(more pics) We had a lot of fun today, watching a bunch of people, students and friends from church acting silly, doing crazy games… together. It’ hard to believe it but the end of the school year has come and this year at UTA we celebrated with a Picnic/Party at Bowman Springs Park in Arlington …
A cool thing happened this weekend. Some friends of ours are moving overseas in the next couple of months and they are in the process of selling many of their belongings in preparation. We were able to buy their refrigerator. Ours was over 15 years old and we figured it was time for a more …
One of the Special parts of our ministry is our annual spring staff retreat. Every spring we go to some beautiful or fun place together as a Dallas/Fort Worth/Texas staff team and just enjoy spending time together. This year was no exception. We went to Glen Rose Texas, staying at the beautiful Dinosaur Valley Best …
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One of the fun parts of our ministry is that we take students to do things that we already like to do. I love basketball. I grew up a Lakers fan (still am) and kind of like the Mavericks too. Basketball has become a huge phenomenon around the world and going to a game is …
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One common question that Lisa and I hear from students is, “What is your job?” and “How are you able to do what you do?” We even get these questions from some of our friends from church and even some of you. Well, this post is a bit of an expose… Or maybe better, a …
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Yesterday we had the special honor of having some friends over for easter dinner. Our dear friends Sara and Aydin from Persian joined us for our special celebration. Before dinner we were able to share a bit about the history of Easter and what it was represented to us Christians and they shared their impression …
