Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
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 …
Mar 2007 – PICS & VIDEO & AUDIO – This year’s Tejas Spring Break retreat (www.isitejas.com) was probably the best we have ever had. As we were sitting and watching it happen, God did some good work. In meteorology, there is something called the “perfect storm” when all the right ingredients from all over the …
The term “basic training” invokes images of drill instructors yelling incessantly at short haired recruits to knock out the old and indoctrinate in the new. In some ways ISI’s Basic Training of new staff is not too different, though a lot quieter and gentler. Every year Dallas has the privilege of hosting ISI’s basic training …
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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 …
Okara Ovey I wish you a happy new year. To say that I am richly blessed by this convention is an understatement. My exposure to fellow Christians sharing together in the word of God,preaching and talks from renounced men and women of GOD,worship,drama,music,meeting people of diverse culture and background,food,and the general atmosphere has made me …
I (Lisa) have fond memories of my first Urbana experience in 2003, so I was excited about participating again this year. Altogether 30 of us from the Dallas/Fort Worth area, including ISI staff, volunteers and students loaded up in 2 church vans and 2 individual cars to make the 11-hour drive to St. Louis. This …
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“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, …
