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Life To The Full

 Hello friends and loved ones,

Thank you for reading this ministry update, I pray that it encourages you today!

This year our theme as a ministry has been life to the full and every week we have been getting to talk to a room full of college students on the full life that Jesus has to offer them. Last night we did some open sharing and we had 30 minutes of students standing up and sharing their response to the question "What has Jesus done for you?" and its been so encouraging to hear feedback from our students on the life they feel like they have experienced because of God's activity in their life, often found or experienced through this community.

Now we are going to be moving into heating up the value of evangelism and our call to share this life we have found with our peers and neighbors. Will you pray that our students continue to know the life that God has given to them and that they, being so full of his life, will want to bring that life to their families, and their classmates on campus?



We got to have a halloween party last week, and two of the guys that I have gotten to mentor at TCC Southeast (a community college close to UTA that we planted on this year) came and joined us! The one on the left is Blake and the one on the right is Jacob! Both of these young guys love Jesus and have been such neat guys to meet in our first year of doing ministry at TCC. I get to meet with them every week and study the bible both as part of our core group, and in a one on one context. They were so grateful to get to be able to attend a UT Arlington FOCUS event because TCC does not have much student life, and this was their first time hanging out with upwards of 85 college students who all love Jesus on a halloween night.

Not much to sat about this except for that I was supposed to be Rex from Toy Story.

Thank you for investing in these students lives and creating a community where they can come and experience the life of Jesus. Life to the full.





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