June 2023

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 back to their campus as evangelists for the gospel. This is the photo of our Denton campuses getting prayed for.

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