Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
On October 31, Lisa, and C-6 joined a bunch of international students to go to Christ Church Assemblies of God to help out with their Fall Festival where they served nearly 7000 trick or treaters and their families. For many of the students from TCU & UTA it was their first experience at such a …
The forecast called for heavy rain with a 50-70% probability. Derrah, our team’s point man for the Fall camp out, picked up the phone on Friday to confirm with me that we were still going to go forward with the camping trip we had planned for international students from the area. We both sensed God’s …
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“I was planning on staying for only a half an hour or so to be with my friends, but the music was so engaging, I decided to stay the whole time.” – Indian Student at the UTA Aradhna Concert Nearly a year ago, as our ISI DFW team was considering how to touch the large …
Continue reading “A Gift to the South Asian Community: Aradhna Concert Series”
(check out pictures and videos) Things have been incredibly busy the last couple of months. Usually summer is time to rest for us, but this year, there have been projects, speaking opportunities, staff conference, Lisa working, busy, busy busy. After thinking about it after school started, we realized that hadn’t taken any time to do …
I just saw these quotes in a friend’s signature and was touched greatly and I wanted to share them with you… “Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for” -Charles Mayes “Only in the world where faith is difficult can faith exist.” -Peter John Kreeft “Make no little plans; they have no …
Every year we (ISI and many different ministries, churches and organizations) welcome new international students to UTA. The whole month of August is devoted to this activity. This is true at TCU and all our other DFW campuses as well. It is a very special time when we get to meet some new friends. We …
Continue reading “Another BIG Howdy to UTA Students (and TCU too)”
Our good friend Jessica passed away. She was only 36. Lisa and I met her the day she first met her husband Sean. The two of them were a match made in heaven (I guess we all are in some ways…) She was young, sweet, sophisticated, had traveled the world and a firm Believer. Sean …
I recently got an e-mail from a dear friend with the picture here with the subject as, “Anyone else see the similarity?” What is this all about!?!?!? Just because a guy has a round head, glasses, short nose, short straight hair, a hat, small eyes, a smiley face, loves the mountains… Wait a minute… Aren’t …
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Some times God “benches” us in the craziest times to force us to rest. Often he uses illness or family issues to do this important thing. This last week I was exposed to a new way, Jury Duty. The last couple of weeks have been very hectic. Our DFW team has really been pouring much …
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One of the special things about being a father of two boys is that we get to do some fun “guy” stuff. My guys are not sports guys, but they both have a great interest in chivalry, games and other things like that. This last weekend the three of us shared something very special. Back …
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