Incoming Photo Collage from our 3 week outreach intensive. We made it through another start to the year!! By God's grace haha. It's always a wild, exhausting but rewarding part of this role. Here's a little bit of the payoff: If for any reason it won't load, its a video of over 300 college students gathered in a classroom on campus at UNT for our first Thursday Night Fellowship of the year! They're practically shouting their devotion to Jesus! This is awesome stuff, and we're so thankful we get to stay on campus where the students are for our worship and preaching time. Many of the students won't leave campus until they feel more settled, so we've always felt that we can do the most by doing as much as we can on the campus! We're continuing our sermon series on the gospel of Mark, these first two weeks have been covering the call to carry your cross and the story of the Transfiguration. I got to tackle preaching over the Transfiguration passage an...
Hey all I am back. We are over halfway done with the summer already. It's been a summer of fundraising, getting meetings with a bunch of students to solidify our leader team, and planning big time for the fall, especially our first couple weeks back on campus. More to come on that soon! We've been having weekly meetings on Thursday nights, all campuses together, and have been in a sermon series on the promises of God. We want our students to have a sense of God's consistent character. So much of gen z reports feeling instability and wanting something solid and trustworthy, and that is very much found in our God. I’ve been leading a small group over the summer that’s over a book called “Surprised by Hope” by NT Wright. It’s one that I first read 8 years ago and has stuck with me all these years. I wanted our students to get a sense of the profound and very tangible hope that the resurrection of Jesus promises us, and I’ve found no better resource for it than this book. If ...