Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
In February C-5 celebrated her 5th birthday in the gym at Fielder Road Baptist Church. Here she is pictured with one of her good friends AXXXX. (C-5 is on the left.) We just signed C-5 up for kindergarten this fall. Please pray for her as she gets ready for that big transition.
Report by ISI Staff Ron Bunyard & Jeff Newpher February 10-11 was a great weekend with the students. Our DFW ministry teamed with our new ministry in Houston to offer a weekend for students focused on relationship building with new students and gave us a chance to share the gospel with them while we team …
It is hard to believe that Christmas is upon us already. In the busyness of the season, and the commercial nature of our celebration of it, it is easy to forget the importance of this time. I was reminded of this during our ISI staff Christmas party the other day. On the way up, it …
Thanks to some generous Christmas gifts, we were able to take a brief family trip to Waco, Texas. One of the things we learned on the trip is that Waco was originally spelled Hueco after the Indian tribe that once inhabited the region. While there we visited the Cameron Park Zoo, the Dr. Pepper Museum …
One of the special things about being the Dallas/Fort Worth City Director is that I get to know some really wonderful people. I think we’ve got a wonderful staff team and I would like to share a little bit about them over the next few months so you can see why I enjoy working with …
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(pictures from this year)Every year, the George DeVries Family and Grace Community Church with ISI set up a special camping experience at the DeVries family dairy ranch. George clears out one of his fields, and we pitch tents and enjoy a rip roaring occasion of riding, shooting skeet and fishing (got our reels at …
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PRAYER NEEDS A staff person to head up new ministry at TCU Ongoing relationships with Jen & Wang (China), Charlotte & Canon (Taiwan), Ted (Vietnam), Ting (Taiwan), Silvia (Mexico), Darren (Malaysia) and many others Joy in serving students & creativity in building relationships Wisdom to be good parents to J-11, T-7 and C-4 PRAISES Our …
Vanessa (left) and Joy (right) are 2 of our key student leaders. Many people think that the primary goal of international student ministry is to befriend lost international students, build a relationship with them, and earn a right to share the gospel so they can know Jesus Christ. While this is one of our key …
Future pastors and missionaries… future gatekeepers for international ministry… that is the target as every semester Roy shares with Dallas Theological Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary students about international students and gives them the opportunity to volunteer to help out with the ministry. This semester 50-60 American seminary students signed up to be friday night helpers, friendship …
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“The TCU ministry is going better than I expected… Relationships are happening…” went a discussion in a recent team meeting with TCU volunteers and students leaders. The semester has begun at TCU and we have hit the ground running. Darren, our International Christian Fellowship (ICF – ISI’s name on campus) President represented us at the …
