Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
“I want to study Revelations…” said TCU Junior Darren from Malaysia when he and Roy first started a Life Transformation Group (LTG) at Einstein’s Bagels next to TCU. ISI DFW has adopted LTG’s as a significant part of its discipleship strategy. This is because it teaches students to grow on their own, mixing the concept …
Roy met with around 60 new Indian students as he was invited to share about the Big Howdy with the Fine Arts Society of India. It was truly and honor to be able to share with the largest “ethnic” or any club on campus at UTA. In addition, another church was invited to share about …
AUGUST 2007 – site, video– pics – “Hip, Hip Hooray! Hip, Hip Hooray!†so the students who were at the UTA Big Howdy party shouted in response to the previous month of “being loved on†that they felt from Big Howdy Volunteers. Every year, over 20 organizations and churches through hundreds of volunteers, minister to new …
Hanh, a Vietnamese UTA MBA student, went with me to the airport to pick up a new Vietnamese student. We didn’t know what to expect but when he took a long time to come out of the international terminal we were a bit worried… It’s not easy coming to a new country alone… When he came out of …
In an effort to stay relevant in this culture, Roy updated the www.utaisi.org website to look better and to come up to standards of current web design.
Aug 2007 – We have heard unconfirmed reports that a large number of Nepalese students are streaming into the DFW area. What is God doing with this special people?… We have heard directly from administration that over 500 nepalese are at Northlake College but Ron recently spoke to a Nepalese Christian student and he found …
(pictures) Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG’s), Mission Statements, Time Management, Catalysts, etc. These are not illnesses you can get… At the beginning of August, Roy and the rest of the ISI DFW Team met for a Vision Retreat at the home of Jim Beckett. Every year, our team meets together for a time of sequestered …
“We want to go to the zoo,” said several of the UTA international students toward the end of the last Friday Night meeting of the summer at the Yabukis’ house. Ron said, “Lets go” and so began a wonderfully fun journey with six international students from Taiwan, Korea, Ivory Coast, etc. We gathered during the …
“You are like like a father to me since I came to America…” a young Taiwanese student shared to Roy at the Summer Party the UTA ISI team hosted in Colleyville in cooperation with Mid Cities Bible church (pictures). We really connected with several students. The food was great and so was the swimming/yard play time. The …
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July 2007 – (pictures) Every summer, a group of young Korean scholars descend upon Arlington for a one month program of English study and American cultural exposure. This year we had the priveledge of hosting almost all of these scholars at several of our events including our Friday night group. In fact, one night all …
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