Student Leaders Raised Up

 

Say hello to our UTA student leader team for 2025-2026. These are the students that have spent all year reaching their peers and making Jesus known at UTA this year. They have done this by practicing evangelism, hosting core groups, and making disciples through one on one scripture reading and mentoring. They also have committed themselves to growing as learners and leaders and each one of them has made a profound impact on this campus and the college experience of their peers. Thank you for investing in them that through them the rest of the campus might be reached. I'm so excited to see the fruit that comes from their time as leaders in our ministry. Both through the disciples that were multiplied through them but also for the work that God was doing in their hearts to help them grow to be more like Jesus themselves. These students will be leaders in their workplaces, churches, and homes, long after they leave college. But I'm grateful that many of them will stick around for another year of campus ministry while they finish school.

Above is pictured only a few of our prospective student leaders for next year. These students, along with several not pictured, just attender our Student Institute of Campus Ministry. Or SICM for short. At SICM they attended week long classes and lectures on topics like evangelism, discipleship, spiritual friendship, and scriptural study. 

The impact that this kind of week can have on these students is immense. Many of them return with a fire to share Jesus with their peers and a firmer belief that they are capable of making a difference on the college campus in Jesus' name. I've already spoken to several who can't wait to join our leader team next year and do just that!

And what's amazing is that students all across DFW are rising up to do exactly the same. These are the students across all of our FOCUS campuses who attended SICM and who are saying yes to making Jesus known on their campus. It is well over 200 students many of them freshman. And that doesn't include all the sophmore's, juniors, and seniors, back home that are already participating. Each one of these students will study the bible personally with several of their peers this year, bringing the yearly impact of your gift well into the thousands of students lives reached with the good news of Jesus. I can not thank you enough for that gift and impact. God is working in DFW and so much of it is possible because of you.

Don't forget to check out the student testimony below!