Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
Luke’s Speeder, Obi Wan’s Light Saber, R2D2’s suit, these were just some of the things Roy, J-10 and two TCU students experienced at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s Star War’s exhibition. Purple Cow milk shakes were also on tap for this trip. Also, just a week later, on July 4, Roy, these …
Arlington Park Baptist Church had people who had a heart for international students. Many of them had much experience but they wanted to partner with ISI to more strategically reach students. Thus came the partnership that resulted in a special July 4 party for UTA ELI students. Ron Bunyard coordinated ISI’s involvment with APBC Missions …
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As you know, Japanese are deep in the hearts of the Yabukis. While we must focus on all international students in our ministry, Japanese are still special to us. God is working in the metroplex with japanese. Here are two examples… Roy received a call from a woman who wanted to start a equipping conference …
July 2007 – (pictures) “International Students want to serve the community…” the conversation Ron had with the new UTA ICF president kind of went. Ron took that to heart and was able to set up a situation for them to work with Habitat for Humanity to help build a house for a low income family. Just that week, …
Roy & Lisa had the priviledge of welcoming three new NCN students to UTA’s language program. These Japanese students are entrusted by their parents to the NCN corportation to navigate through the university experience and NCN working with Ron asked us to make sure the students get off on the right foot. We picked them …
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We were going to Colorado to learn how to be better leaders! In June Roy attended ISI’s Advanced Leadership Conference (see video) with most of the local staff. This is a very important conference as we work this year to work on tuning up our strategic plan for the DFW area and as we invest …
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“In my first day in America, I have a warm feeling…” one Taiwanese student commented. Unlike domestic students, international students typically stay during the summer. Many also arrive for the first time during this quiet time on campus. It is a perfect opportunity to really shower Christ’s love on them and give them our full …
April, 2007 – Norm Sonju, founder of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, headlined a banquet (see pictures and video)Â that ISI and several other organizations in Arlington hosted for the thirty Executive MBA students who are at UTA from China. There are 30 Chinese executives from the top companies in China who who are studying at …
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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 …
There are over 900 international students each at two of the community colleges in the area. At one campus over half are from the little reached country of Nepal. We don’t have anyone working there? Why? Without the manpower and the difficulty in reaching community colleges because of their commuter nature, we have not been …
