Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
The last five days were a whirlwind. Lots of communication, preparation and blessing: a one day trip to Oklahoma City, meetings about our M:28 video, welcoming 20 new East Asian EMBA scholars,a wall to wall packed Yabuki house on Friday ISI night, concerted prayer and lots and lots of e-mails about many things from getting …
What a welcome month at UTA! God used us(we but more the 200+ volunteers) to made over 100 airport pickups. He brought us over 400 students to the Big Howdy Party(plus nearly 200 volunteers from 30+ groups). He served many through us at the Used Item Sale. He used us to take over 100 students …
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The Big Howdy has begun! Last week was very busy as all the area campuses were welcoming new students. Between airport pickups, orientation, used item distribution/sales, rides to Walmart, etc. our whole North Texas team has been meeting new students daily. God has been very faithful as we seek people of peace as we serve …
Continue reading “Welcoming new Students – Airport Chronicles – Baptism”
One of the special privileges in being a part of ISI is the opportunity to encourage, empower and train the Body of Christ to love international students and to help the students grow into disciples who make disciples. We are in the middle of a three week period where our ISI North Texas team is …
Continue reading “Empowering the Body, MAWL, The Students are coming!”
In many ways this was a week of spending time with family. Our eldest son, Jonathan celebrated his 16th birthday. I went on canoe/kayak outing with my second son, Timothy’s scout troop. Lisa had the week off and she, her mother, Penny joining our family all the way from Oregon and Charis went all over …
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The ISI North Texas team went up to Possum Kingdom Lake for a retreat. It was a wonderful retreat. One of my goals for the time was to work to begin the process of restoring some of the “organizational heath” that was eroded over the last couple of years because of our intense work on …
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I realized I left you all watching a cliff hanger. While many lost their homes and some even lost their lives up in Colorado, no ISI staff did and our national office was not threatened. God did some amazing things. If you look at the spread of the fire, there was a “bubble” around the …
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(see pictures from the trip and other pictures from June including family pics) Pray for International Students Inc. There is a huge wildfire in Colorado Springs where I was a part of the ISI staff at a conference. At around 7 PM tonight, we were told that we had 15 minutes to evacuate the hotel. …
If there are any words that would describe the last two weeks it would be moving and speaking. Many students were leaving town this week and they left much furniture for future students. We moved alot of furniture. On one evening this last week we had to rent a u-haul to clear five apartments of …
It’s the end of the school year. Graduation was last weekend. It’s always sad to see friends that we built over months even years go home but that is the purpose of our ministry. To share Jesus love with students and to equip them for effective service back home in their countries. In many ways …
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