Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
In western business golf has played an important part in developing relationships and sealing deals. The executive MBA student/executives from China who are studying at UTA got a sense of this and asked ISI volunteer/partner, Steve Schimer if he knew how to play golf. They wanted to learn. He arranged for ISI staff, and golf …
Apr 2007 – Late Saturday night the phone rang. I(Roy) didnt’t recognize the number on the caller ID. A young lady identified herself as the president of the Fine Arts Society of India(FSI) at UTA. They were having a special cultural performance, Sangam with the India Musical Arts and Culture Society(IMACS) and they wanted to personally …
Okay it isn’t the bug… it’s the game! In March ISI at UTA partnered with several ministries to host students at the UTA Lutheran ministry center to watch the 2007 ICC World Cup of Cricket Check out our website, www.utacricket.com for more info Some interesting facts about Cricket and this outreach… Cricket is one of …
As the Spring Semester came along, ISI, its partner ministries and volunteers worked together to help the many new students as many of their senior students were on Christmas Vacation. This culminated in the Spring Howdy Party where over 200 students from 22 countries got together to celebrate the beginning of the school year with …
“This was my first Thanksgiving Dinner. It was very good.†said an Indian student as he sat with a student from Hong Kong. Working with ISI, Fielder Road Baptist Church is working to develop a focused ministry to International Students. We discussed ways of getting the church involved. One of the results of this discussion …
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Here is an e-mail to one of our volunteer coordinators…. David, Although I was looking forward to visiting with the student you ‘hooked me up with’, I was not prepared for such a fabulous day!! I picked San up at UTA at 11:30 so we could go visit a FW site, come back to my …
Fall 2006 – VIDEO AND PICS – Imagine coming to a new country with nothing but your suitcases, knowing no one…Â It is hard… Through the Big Howdy events in August we helped to make the transition a little bit easier, sharing Christ’s love. It seems that as soon as we got back from Japan, …
