August/September 2022

Hello all!

It's been an exciting beginning to our fall semester here at the UNT and TWU campuses.

Our theme for this year is Come and See, based out of the story of the woman at the well in John 4. She's so struck by her encounter with Jesus that she immediately feels a need to tell people about it!

Likewise out focus this year is around realizing what Jesus has done in our lives so that we have a similar passion to share that experience with those around us. Our sermons at TNF have focused on this idea for a these first few weeks of the semester, and it was a point of inspiration for our welcome week efforts to reach out to new students.

We have a lot of new leaders on the men's side in particular, which is due to so many graduating last year! Bittersweet, but it's been fun to get to know these new leaders and work with them every week in our mentorship meetings and leadership development time.

Our men's leader team this year.

One of the things you guys can be praying for is our leader team. They are helping so much with the mission on a week to week out basis. We have more people involved in our small groups than involved in our large group gatherings, which means a lot of what we do starts with those small groups and the 1-1 Bible studies that come from it. Pray for these leaders and us as we lead them, as well as the people involved in the small groups. We have 200+ students across the two Denton campuses this year, and we want to do our best to serve them well.

Another thing on our radar right now is fall camp. It is happening this weekend, October 8-9th! This is a big deal for us every year, it is often an event that solidifies people being involved for the long run and is a major catalyst for new people finding friendships in the community. Pray that new students would come and start building meaningful friendships that point them to Jesus!

I appreciate all of you praying and giving and being a part of the campus mission. Jude and Nicole and I would be nowhere without your support.

We took a bunch of new students to the opening UNT football game. It was an embarrassing display.

Jude is trying to read some hefty books now

Sugar high at the snow cone place

Ryan

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An Amazing Start

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Hello all, We're two weeks out from what is typically our craziest week of the school year: fall semester welcome week. This is when campuses usually throw big events to welcome the incoming freshman, and welcome back students who have gone away for the summer. Obviously, this is prime time for a ministry to be on campus to be visible and engaging with the new students. So many of the people we have throughout the year come from us meeting them during welcome week. This year, things are going to look different. So as you support campus ministry faithfully, let me tell you what we're going to be doing this year to still be faithful on our end to minister to college students. Outreach: Reaching out and meeting new students is a vital part of our ministry, and because of COVID, the way in which we do that is going to have to look different. Not all of the students that normally attend classes are going to be in person on campus, so we can't expect to rely on holding in person ...

Prayer Requests Going Into the Fall - Hey friends, we're about to start another fall semester of ministry in a couple of weeks, and that means a new leader team, a bunch of new students flooding the campuses and looking for belonging and more importantly looking for Jesus whether they realize it or not. Our goal is to meet as many of them as we can. - Please pray for us to cross paths with those seeking and lost and that we can bridge the gap between them and their relationship with God and Christ loving community. - Please pray for our leader team to be inspired to share the gospel boldly and bring people in with openness and love. - Please pray fro our staff that we would also be sharing the gospel boldly, preaching and praising God well, and taking care of all of the logistics that go into a really busy few weeks. Thank you for your support, and for being on mission with us. Ryan

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