Denton TX College Missions

A little different sort of update this month. Coming to you from Kimsey's Coffee in Argyle today. One of my favorite little "offices" for getting things done. It's an odd building, designed to look something like a cross between a hobbit house and a European hunting lodge. (As best as I can tell anyways). "Why don't you just work from home?" Jude thinks that me being at home but working and not playing with him is an extremely unsuitable arrangement. So here I am! Plus they have pretty good coffee.  Kimsey's Sometimes someone who is really unfamiliar with what a campus minister does will really dig in and ask, yeah but like what do you DO? It's usually those moments that I'm reminded how strange my job can be. I'm a pastor, but my congregation changes significantly every year. This month, we're really working  on expanding our social media/advertising for this next year. So I'm a graphic designer/marketer this summer? Sometimes be

 Hello all! Just finished the first half of summer. Despite the sweltering heat, we are all mostly intact. Only one of our staff's A/C's has busted. Not bad.  We're fundraising whatever amount of our support is still not up to our budget over the summer so please be praying for that! God provides and we're just looking for the right people to connect with who would want to support the mission of reaching college students. Let me know if there's anyone who would be interested in hearing from me! Thank you for all of you who support this mission month after month or year after year. Your support is life changing! We're doing an 8 week study on preaching over the summer with our Denton Staff, and reading a book called Between Two Worlds by John Stott. It's been an excellent read, and I love that we get some time in our schedule over the summer to do some more broad prep work like this, and we're hoping this will only help elevate our preaching game to reach

SICM 2023 As you will be able to tell from the photos below, we recently took another group of young students up to Bellingham, WA for the Student Institute of Campus Ministry. It's something we do every year to help equip and train the next generation of student leaders. I love getting to go. Even though it's a long trip to be away every year, the amount of time I get to be with our new leaders is worth it. We had a really neat group this year.  Group photo of the 100 or so students we took this year from all of the FOCUS campuses in DFW! Here's what their classes look like for the week. Lot's of learning and they get to spend some time on the campus having conversations with students and putting some of the evangelism learning into practice! We got to drive up to Mt Ranier before the classes started. Very beautiful.  Here's some of the UNT men who we took this year.  At the end of the week, every campus gets prayed for as we send out a new group of students to go