Hi friends and family! I hope you are all well and having a great Halloween season!  The more established we get into the school year, the more I get excited about what God is doing on campus! We get to experience closer relationships to one another, and see more of our students choose to be more consistent within our community. We also get to see our students committing to follow God in deeper ways than they have previously in their life which is a huge gift to see, and is a huge thanks to you and your support towards me in this ministry! Halloween fun with our core!          After small group a few weeks ago, Murphie who I lead with this year (on the very back left in the dark grey), and I took a trip to the Denton square, which is our downtown where they have different decorations displayed around the town to check out for Halloween! It's always so much fun getting to ...

Hi friends and family! As I reflect on the closing of this month, I am filled with gratitude as I think about how in our ministry, we are now in more of a routine, friendships are beginning to grow deeper, and people are really choosing to pursue the Lord a little more! Let’s start off with the best part of this month: BAPTISMS! We had four people in our ministry choose to make the decision to publicly commit to following after God! Isn't it so neat how many of our students show up to support one another?! Diana's Baptism! Diana’s baptism was so intentional and special to be apart of. If you know her, you instantly love her. She’s someone that can be heard anywhere in the room haha, and more importantly is someone that is so quick to encourage others, and if anything is going on whether good or bad her first response is always prayer right then and there. A huge part of her story is that she came into college a part of tons and tons of student organizations because she really d...

 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...