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Winter Retreat!

We're fresh off of another successful Winter Camp/Retreat! We got a chance to get all the hundreds of students across all of our campuses together for a long weekend of worship, teaching, games and camp food!

This year our theme at camp was over 1 John. Light and life from 1 John. It was a great opportunity to encourage and challenge us all with our relationship with God and each other before going out onto the campus for the spring. 

We're using the gospel of Luke as a springboard for our sermon series in Denton this semester. Each week we will focus on a story or parable from the gospel of Luke and teach through the ideas within it. So far we've only met one time but it was a super energizing service. I think everyone was still excited coming back from camp which was awesome, the room was packed and worship was beautiful. 

We're in the process now of figuring out who we are going to be taking up to SICM in May for our annual leadership conference. Please join us in praying for that. 

There's so much going on right now that I am incredibly thankful for. This has been some of the more challenging weeks in my life recently, with some health issues persisting, but nevertheless I have had ample opportunity to reflect on how good God is in the midst of that. We have been overwhelmingly blessed with a community that has come around us and been present and supporting. So praise God for that!

Our students on campus need Jesus still, both the ones that have heard of him and the ones who haven't. Denton can be a place full of a lot of the worst parts of our culture, so please join me in praying for these students we will be ministering to this semester. Pray that we would be faithful to teach the gospel and love people as we meet them and invite them into God's family. 

Thank you for being such a constant place of support and prayer. I am so thankful for you. 

Ryan, Nicole and Jude. 


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