Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
This last weekend, Ron, Derrah and I had the privilege of going to Lubbock to share with the international student ministry community about some things God have been teaching us about doing ministry through many quick multiplying small groups among people groups on campus. God has been doing great things in Lubbock at Texas Tech in the …
There is no doubt in my mind that many had been praying for the Tejas retreat (http://isitejas.com – for Tejas retreat website with pictures, videos, etc. You can also visit our facebook group page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50327357388). No doubt at all. This was honestly the best retreat in terms of Spiritual fruit and in terms of introducing Jesus through words and …
Continue reading “Tejas 2010 – The best to Date – Who is Jesus? and Why does this matter?”
It was a week of unexpected surprises from God. Our water heater stopped working last Friday. The plumber came over on Saturday, Monday and Wednesday to first try to fix our old one but in the end we had to replace it. It was little inconvenient having to take baths by dumping water from a …
Continue reading “Divine Plumber Appointment, Space Miracles and Kamal’s Prayer”
The forecast called for heavy rain with a 50-70% probability. Derrah, our team’s point man for the Fall camp out, picked up the phone on Friday to confirm with me that we were still going to go forward with the camping trip we had planned for international students from the area. We both sensed God’s …
Continue reading “God held back the Rain: International Students in The Cowboy Capital”
“I was planning on staying for only a half an hour or so to be with my friends, but the music was so engaging, I decided to stay the whole time.” – Indian Student at the UTA Aradhna Concert Nearly a year ago, as our ISI DFW team was considering how to touch the large …
Continue reading “A Gift to the South Asian Community: Aradhna Concert Series”
It has been a while since my last post. There have been many very time consuming projects afoot. Anyway, I wanted to post some things that have been on my heart but I haven’t had time to post. I am going to bring in some tidbits from our most recent prayer letter that share what …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “Dinosaur Tracks, Barbeque and Building a Team”
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 …
Continue reading “Chinese on Train to Catch a Rocket downed by a Maverick”
Once again, ISI DFW had the honor of hosting the national Basic Training for newer staff. Our new staff get a chance to get the basics of international students ministry. Here is a quick video I took at the event.
