The year has begun!
My friends & team! I hope that your August wasn't too hot and that you are ready for a beautiful fall season. The year is off to a great start and I'm excited to get to share with you what God has been doing at Dallas College Richland Campus.
Welcome week was a great experience as we got to connect with a new incoming class of students at Richland College. We've typically set up a volleyball net outside of the main cafeteria, but we have noticed that over the last few years fewer and fewer students were interested in coming outside in the heat to play volleyball (I guess most people want to stay indoors and be on their phones, hah).
The campus let us set up two different tables on campus to maximize the number of people we would connect with. It was a great experience! Joey (one of our senior staff) coordinated with Starbucks to help us get free coffee every day and we were able to connect with a new students throughout the week!
Our first week of core was also a great success! The students are excited and motivated to get to know one another and pursue what following Jesus could look like while students. We have momentum and synergy among our students that I have not seen since pre-COVID. Please pray that we would be faithful in loving & serving the students among us!
Thank you for your support & for believing in our mission to love college students! I hope that the pictures below encourage you and fill you with love. Your support means something! There are students who are being impacted and are being introduced to the Jesus-way of living! So good!
Pictures Below:
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| For one of our welcome week events, we did a Braums night off campus to meet some of the students that have been coming around! It was fun! |
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| A group photo after our first Thursday Night Thunder meeting! It was awesome to get to be with everyone on Thursday Night - we have a lot of fun personalities in our group this year! |
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| We did an Arcade-night and afterwards we got pizza together! |
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| I had the privilege to speak at our first Thursday Night FOCUS of the year. Our theme this year is "Come & See". In our sermon series, we are inviting the students to Come & See the many aspects of who God is; I can tell that our sermon series is really resonating with the students! |
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| My core this year! I get to lead w/ Yoni (student in the black/white striped shirt) and he has been an absolute blessing to my life. I love getting to work with him and serving alongside him. Please be praying for him, he got in a car accident about a week ago and is currently working with his insurance company to handle all of the details. |
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| Here is me - as a young lad w/ my sister, Meron. We are walking along a riverwalk in Windsor, Ontario. |
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| We did an Super-Smash-Brothers event on campus during welcome week - it was awesome! We had a bunch of new students come and hang out with us! |
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| The campus has been more open in letting us advertise around campus with fewer restrictions. Hopefully we are able to connect with more & more students that way! |
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| Claire w/ our FOCUS table at Welcome Week! |
Thank You! So much for believing in me and walking with me along this campus missionary journey :)
I'm looking forward to an awesome year! Let's do this!
Sirak
