Sent Into The World

Hello Friends,

Can you believe that it's already August and that means that new students will be coming onto UTA's campus for the first time in just three weeks!!!

For the last month we have been, with God's help, putting together our student leader team. These student leaders will be some of the first faces that incoming students will meet, as we will be there to help them move into their dorms and invite them into friendship and christ centered community. It is such an important decision to figure out which students will make up our leader team each year. Their own personal walk with Jesus, or their own personal character will set the tone for the seriousness with which the students who look to them for leadership will follow Jesus themselves, or the character of which they will choose to imitate. And I'm so encouraged that God has brought to us such upstanding young men and women. Here are some pictures of just a few of our student leaders this year. Would you please pray for their ministry as they outreach to incoming students and to their peers, and as they study the bible one on one or in cores, with anyone who accepts the invite?

These are older pictures, but I'm so encouraged by what God is doing in all of their lives and how God is going to use them this year to bless the campus that they're on and make Jesus known. I'm so thankful that each of them have said to God "Here am I, send me"

Speaking of send me, this summer at Thursday Night Fellowship I had the pleasure of closing off our sermon series by preaching through the topic of "Sent into the World" pulling primarily from John 20, Romans 8, and Isaiah 6. My hope is that the sermon would inspire our students as we enter into the new semester to really see themselves as sent men and women of God. If you would like to listen to that sermon you can do so at the link here. I start around the 22 minute mark.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1545804008?filter=archives&sort=time

Below you can read this months student testimony from Maddison at Collin College. Hope that it encourages you. As always thank you for partnership in ministry. None of this would be possible without the generous support of ministry partners like you.

In Christ,

Austin Gage

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