The Transition Begins

As of 12:00am this morning, the FOCUS Apprenticeship has officially concluded!

Thank you all for your support throughout the year and for believing in me and in God's mission on the college campus.

If you're new here, welcome! And thank you for deciding to support me this upcoming year -- whether financially or in prayer. I pray that through these monthly ministry updates, God will bless and encourage you. He has many great things in store for college students this year and we all get to be a part of it!

Celebrations

The FOCUS Staff gifted us personalized metallic prints in celebration of officially completing the apprenticeship! I'll have to find a place to hang it in the new apartment when Erin and I get married next month. Here's to hoping she likes it as much as I do 🤞🏼

Graham, one of our apprentices (until 12am this morning, that is) at UTA designed this shirt for the apprentices! Each of us is represented by one of the little monsters. Bonus points if you can guess which one is me!

Past half-way!

Exciting news! We're 57% of the way to being fully supported for the 2022-2023 school year! That means it will only take 14 more supporters at $100/mo. Praise God!

Thank you all again so much. If you know anyone who would be encouraged to hear what God's been doing on the college campus, please shoot me a text or call! I'd love to chat with them. I'll likely have to expand my network beyond who I already know in order to reach full support by July.

In case you lost my number, it's (817) 718-7978

Summer Focus

Lastly, we had our first fellowship meeting of the Summer this past Thursday! As a student, I always loved these. Even more than our weekly fellowship meetings during the school year! It's such a cool experience watching friendships form from opposite ends of the metroplex because of a shared love of Jesus and his people. We will have 9 more over the next couple months and I'm stoked!

I'm very excited for this year and hope you are too! I'm asking God to bless this summer with a smooth transition from UTD to SMU Focus. Please join me in prayer, and specifically pray for the SMU students. You'll be seeing a lot more about them soon!

Thank you again!

Your brother,
Taylor

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Ministry in the Mountains!

To all my friends working in schools, happy summer! Erin just had her last day at the elementary school this past Friday, and I know she certainly needs a break. Even though our semester ended a few weeks ago, God's still been moving in our community! We had our annual student leadership / campus ministry conference (SICM) and our 4 SMU students Miles, Jessica, Michelle, and Ruth, had an extremely meaningful time. I've got lots of pics to share from it! Mustangs in Washington! Jessica, Miles, myself, Michelle, Ruth! Chinese food! Glamor shot SICM completion certificates! Beautiful sunset view from WWU All 120 SICM students & staff prayed over our SMU team for the coming school year. Very meaningful! Adventure! The Freemont Troll Rattlesnake Ledge Trail (5 mile hike!) Not pictured: Me almost throwing up 4x from the climb Our host, Bob! He housed Miles and me all week, fed us, and took us to the mountains between Mt. Shuksan and Mt. Baker! We had a great time getting to know

Endings and New Beginnings

We've made it to and past the final stretch! I've got some bitter-sweet pictures to share with y'all this month. End of Year Party We had our last big event of the year! The university offered to cater dinner, and the students spent time sharing how they've seen God working through individual people in our community this year. We also took some time to recognize our leaders and seniors, thanking them for all the effort they've poured into their peers. Laurence, our campus director, is officially on leave with his new baby! He's the one with the artistic touch so that means Siena and I had to do our best. I think it turned out awesome after all! Wholesome Wholesome part 2 Our graduating seniors! We made them Christmas ornaments as a gift so they can have a yearly reminder of the ways God has blessed them through this community while they were in college! We asked each of them to say a prayer each year for the new students who will be following in their footsteps.

Welcome Charli to the Family!

Hi everyone! I hope you've been enjoying your air conditioners this month. Ours went out the other day and the indoor temp got up to 90 degrees before our mechanic was able to fix it up. 🥵 Makes me praise God for the blessings we take for granted. Renting a house! Erin and I have had a couple of life changes this month! First of all, we moved into a house in Garland! We can't wait to have lots of guests. We've gotten to start that in the last couple weeks with our aunt & uncle (shoutout Brenda & Jeff, who read these updates!) and some good friends in our church (shoutout to Josh & Mandi who also read these!). We're so excited for this to become a space where friends, family, students, and all kinds of people feel welcome and experience God's goodness through friendship. Praise God for community! Got to warm the house with some SMU guys! If you're a nerd like us and want to know the boardgame, it's called Zombicide. 10/10 recommend. Meet Charli!

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