Yabuki Breeze Blog

Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas

EQUIP training with people from all over, Fire at South Campus, Big Picnic

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Last week was a great week of learning and service for the ISI North Texas team. We had the privilege of hosting 10 ISI staff from around the country the EQUIP conference. EQUIP is a week long seminar which serves as a “basic training” for national staff who come – exposing them to international student ministry fundamentals. Most of our North Texas team together with …

Asia Trip Report Part 1

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(See pictures) It’s been a week since I returned from Asia. What a Trip! I believe God used it to help build things He has already been doing. For those of you who weren’t on the trip prayer e-mail, I’m going to put a few excerpts from those messages. The one below comes from and …

Busy, Busy Busy…

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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 …

Graduation/Wedding/Farewell Weekend, More Tragedy, Great news about some students

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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 …

Summer’s End 2011

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It’s hard to believe it… (I know I say that a lot) but we are near the end of the summer. The kids are getting ready for school and so are we. Let’s look over the summer as we haven’t posted in about a month… When we look back on the summer, the obvious HUGE …

New Group of Executive/Students Get Help from “Your Texas Friends”

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This last weekend a new group of students from China, all executives in large companies, arrived to start their one year Executive MBA program at UTA. “Your Texas Friends,” a team of people from various churches and ministries in Arlington, were there to help them get settled into their new apartments and learn about living …

Dallas Mavericks Founder Shares with Chinese EMBA Students

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April, 2007 – Norm Sonju, founder of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, headlined a banquet (see pictures and video) 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 …

Chinese EMBA Students & Golf

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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 …

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