Welcome to 2025/2026!

 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 and it was a joy to prep. I read a book called "The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading" by Patrick Schreiner and I really recommend it. If you're like me, this is not a gospel story that I hear get a lot of coverage in the teaching of churches I have been a part of. I'm now more convinced than ever that it's an incredibly meaningful and pivotal story for us to ponder. Here's a quote from the book that I wanted to share. 

“The principle of transfiguration says nothing, no one and no situation, is ‘untransfigurable,’ that the whole of creation, nature, waits expectantly for its transfiguration, when it will be released from its bondage and share in the glorious liberty of the children of God, when it will not be just dry inert matter but will be translucent with divine glory.”8 When the Lord returns, we will wear a crown of righteousness (2 Tim. 4:8). The shining mountain is not only an event to study; it transfigures us as we behold the glorious Son and wait for his return.

 Here's the last few weeks in pictures:

We start welcome week by gathering all of our student leaders from UNT together Monday morning for a training and prayer time. This room is just our student leaders at UNT. We have a huge team this year! All of these students are dedicating so much time each week to help us meet people and study the Ible witht them and show them Jesus. 

One of the night time events we did was a worship night on the lawn outside a dorm. So many people walked by and stopped! We're thankful to be at a University where we are allowed to worship on the campus out in public. 

At the end of the first week, we take our corefas to a camp SE of here to recoup, get ready for week 2, and celebrate what God has done so far. 

Worship together the night of our student leader retreat. 

We've had a couple of baptisms to start the year off!!

Jude got a taste of the local fair and Rodeo last week and loved it!

Thank you for your support and prayers. Please pray for our continued outreach efforts, taht we can expand our reach. We have such a big campus and want to reach as many people as possible!