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Fall Fest, Kayaks, Hiking & a Day trip to the State Park,

Roy / November 1, 2013

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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Connecting Personally with New Fall 2013 students

Roy / September 5, 2013

As you can imaging, with the beginning of the school year, things have been non-stop with stuff to do. I’m so sorry for being so slow to get this post out. So many things happened but it was fun and God was at work. Most of what is to say is below. The TCU welcome …

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Super Hero Micah, Colorado Springs & Fire

Roy / June 18, 2013

Summer is a little different than other times of the year for us. Many students remain during the summer but summer school schedules are very different than during other semesters and students have more time. There is also more to do even though it is very crazy. It is the best time to in the …

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Big Prayer needs for Space Weekend, Rangers

Roy / October 5, 2012

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 …

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

Roy / May 17, 2012

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 …

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Sad story of a Asian student, New Jesus followers, A Joyful yet Sad Goodbye

Roy / December 19, 2011

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 …

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A Spirit of Touching Lives

ryabuki / November 10, 2008

Today I had the honor of sitting at church with some really cool people. Tillie Bergen, the iconic founder of Mission Arlington was there. Mission Arlington has become a model for outreach into a city of lost people who are struggling in life. Tilly shared that through their ministry of giving over 238 churches were …

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