Hi friends and family! We have officially begun our new ministry year, and have been kicking off tons of events to welcome the students back onto campus, or for their very first time! This month is the biggest deal for our ministry and is often when we meet students who are desperately seeking to be a part of a community and looking for true wholeness that only comes from Christ! God has moved super powerfully as He does every year! Thank you for your continued support as we get to love on yet another set of God's children this year. Staff retreat! Our full campus pastoral team from all the DFW campuses! Before we begin all of the events we put on for our students when they come onto campus again, we always go to a retreat just for our staff team to connect with God and one another to be filled up before being poured out to many students! This year, we covered the heart of ministry and the different parts that go into that. It was so refreshing and rejuvenating to be able to be su

 Hi friends and family! I hope you've had a wonderful summer with your loved ones and those around you! Thank you so much for your support this past year, and into the new semester ahead! The school year is quickly approaching, and I am so excited about all that God will do this year in our ministry! Summers with the apprentices! Pretty soon we won't be called apprentices anymore which is very bittersweet! Here is a photo from the very end of June that I didn't get a chance to include from last month's blog. I am going to miss this team so much, but so thankful that we have already pre-set up our sabbath dinners for this next semester. Even though things will soon ramp up with all our schedules, we will still get intentional time checking in on how we're each doing, and seeing what God has been doing in our lives! Markia's Wedding! Last blog, I mentioned how one of my close friends of mine, Rian, who is in our ministry got married. Equally as exciting, so did an

 Hi friends and family, happy summer! I hope it has been filled with more family time than usual, and more rest both personally and in the Lord!  Ministry over the summer certanly slows down a bit, and that has been a blessing to learn more rythms of stillness, and more reliance on God than on myself which is hard for me when life feels most busy. A  verse on my mind this summer has been Psalm 23:1-3 " The   Lord   is my shepherd,   I lack nothing.  He makes me lie down in green pastures,  he leads me beside quiet waters,  he refreshes my soul."  I feel like the Lord has been redirecting me to this verse and having me focus on the whole passage, taking each section in a way of slow reflection, but I especially love this first part.  Thank you so much for all of your generosity toward me, as always, I am immensely grateful to each of you! 3                                                                                                                                           

  Hi friends and family! It's the last month of the apprenticeship! I can't believe how quickly it has come and gone. I can't thank each of you enough for your support throughout this ministry season. It has been the most impactful season of my whole life! For those that don't know, I have committed to one more year with FOCUS. I'm so excited for all that God will do in the students around me and in myself this next year when I will officially transition to being a staff member with the FOCUS ministry! SICM 2024! I will spend most of this blog discussing this trip since we just got back from 10 days in Washington State! We call this trip SICM (Student Institute Of Campus Ministry). We took 150 students from each of our DFW college campuses to learn more about what it means to be a deeper disciple of Christ as well as learn leadership skills. Often when our staff decides who they will invite to this trip it is dependent on who we will choose to be on our leader team