Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
One of the special things I really enjoy about doing ISI ministry is that is it incredibly fun. Every once in a while, when I get so bogged down in the daily struggles and other things, God reminds me of that. This week was one of those times. It was a great week on so …
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 …
Continue reading “HUGE answered prayer, Blessed two weeks – Big howdy Results”
Sad story from this last week that hit me hard. I took a student to the airport to go home this week that I first picked up 6 months ago from an affluent country in Asia. He was an short term English student who happened to be a PhD student. We saw him occasionally at …
Continue reading “Sad story of a Asian student, New Jesus followers, A Joyful yet Sad Goodbye”
Wow your prayers were huge this week. The Tarrant County Space Weekend trip went well. Many of the Spiritual Warfare skirmishes were dealt with and God opened up some doors with students in surprising ways. Also, Lisa was on fall break at her work and we had a lot of time together. Praise the Lord. The …
Continue reading “Houston Initial Results, Your Prayers were Awesome”
(See feb pictures including stuff from this post) This has been a weird couple of weeks for us. It started last week with me having to be in Phoenix for some important meetings for the National ISI ministry about discipleship and preparing students for returning home as leaders in Christ and it ends with our …
The key word for this week was “graduation.” Several of our stronger students and dear friends graduated from TCU this week. In addition, Timothy graduated by receiving the Arrow of Light, marking the end of his Cub Scout journey and sadly also marking the end of our pack and den and my opportunity to lead …
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last message. A ton has happened in the mean time. I will jump directly to the praise and prayer reports. I hope this message finds all of you well. The Austin trip to the Vibrant Dance of Faith and Science was challenging in many ways. I think most important …
Continue reading “Vibrant Dancing in Christ, T4T and Thanksgiving is Coming”
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind for me, our team and our family. At TCU we had family weekend where parents of freshmen come on out to visit. We had a special tailgate party for the international students who did not have parents come all the way out. The following week, I had …
You should see the e-mails we got from people who participated with the Big Howdy and other welcome events. It is always a blessing to hear such things and God has been very, very good. I really believe that God is moving so quickly of late in our area because of your prayers. The student …
Continue reading “Good News from the Purple Land of Horned Frogs”
The students now feel welcome.At least from what we’ve heard from them. Just finished up most of the welcome activites at the various campuses in the metroplex. These are often crazy times but the fruit is still to come. We will see how God was able to use these important events to kick start the ministry …
