Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
As I write this I am fighting a cold and trying get stuff done for the coming week. This last week was good for Roy but harder for Lisa. Roy was able to go to the ISI Rocky Mountains and Plains Regional Retreat up in Wichita, KS. We learned about minstering to Muslims and how …
Cowboy Games, Cowboy Camping, Rangers Games, NASA Space Weekends & Mavericks Games: ISI Ministry? (See Pictures) One of the special things about living in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) area is the diversity of unique things to do nearby. God has been creating opportunities for Roy & the ISI team to use these events to find …
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 …
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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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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I realized I left you all watching a cliff hanger. While many lost their homes and some even lost their lives up in Colorado, no ISI staff did and our national office was not threatened. God did some amazing things. If you look at the spread of the fire, there was a “bubble” around the …
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(see pictures from the trip and other pictures from June including family pics) Pray for International Students Inc. There is a huge wildfire in Colorado Springs where I was a part of the ISI staff at a conference. At around 7 PM tonight, we were told that we had 15 minutes to evacuate the hotel. …
