Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
(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 …
Last Friday we had the last Friday Night Fellowship of the calendar year. Because of bad weather the week before it also functioned as the Christmas party at Daniel & Jamie Lin’s house. (see pictures) We were worried that not many students would come because it was after finals and often students leave immediately after classes …
See pictures from October including pictures from Fun Fest This has been a busy week in terms of making new friends. Well, we ended up not camping this week but instead we went on a day trip to Cleburne State Park (see pictures). It was a fun time where we made some new friends and got …
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(Pictures) Space weekend is over and the students who came away blessed and I feel a whole lot closer to several of them as a result. This last weekend was ISI Space Weekend for the ISI groups at Tarrant County colleges. We were treated by our ISI cohorts and their host families in Houston to …
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Smores on the patio, singing folks songs, good discussion and and people asking about Jesus. Those are some of the images on our last Friday night for the school year for the Starbucks group. We were thankful that it was at our home too. It was sad to see so many friends leave. Some will …
Continue reading “Smore Friday Nights, Webex ministry, Goodbyes”
Imagine 6 grills around a large pavilion at River Legacy Park in Arlington burning hot with the sweet aroma of all kinds of food from around the world cooking. (check out pictures in our May 2013 pictures page) That was what it was like last Friday during the UTA ISI end-of-the-year picnic. The pavilion was …
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Hi everyone. Another quick message. We should be getting back in to a more normal mode soon. Now, see the guy on the right… who is that man in black? have aliens invaded? Jonathan is in his full Academic Decathlon regalia fresh with “regulation” hair cut for the event. I know it was hard but …
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God is in control. He is and always has been. Today was the day of the US Elections and I was reminded that no matter what happens God is in control. He was when He chose Nebuchadnezzar to be His enforcer to chastise and protect Israel. He was when He selected Cyrus to be the …
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Big prayer need coming along. We are taking 80+ students and volunteers to Houston this weekend, October 6-7 to visit the Space center, hear from a believing NASA official, stay with host families, go to church (sometimes for the first time), enjoy the Galveston Bay and most of all, enjoy being together for an intense …
Continue reading “Big Prayer needs for Space Weekend, Rangers”
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 …
